Chalice
(Chal"ice) n. [OR. chalis, calice, OF. chalice, calice, F. calice, fr. L. calix, akin to Gr. and
E. helmet. Cf. Calice, Calyx.] A cup or bowl; especially, the cup used in the sacrament of the Lord's
Supper.
Chaliced
(Chal"iced) a. Having a calyx or cup; cup-shaped. "Chaliced flowers." Shak.
Chalk
(Chalk) n. [AS. cealc lime, from L. calx limestone. See Calz, and Cawk.]
1. (Min.) A soft, earthy substance, of a white, grayish, or yellowish white color, consisting of calcium
carbonate, and having the same composition as common limestone.
2. (Fine Arts) Finely prepared chalk, used as a drawing implement; also, by extension, a compound, as
of clay and black lead, or the like, used in the same manner. See Crayon.
Black chalk, a mineral of a bluish color, of a slaty texture, and soiling the fingers when handled; a variety
of argillaceous slate. — By a long chalk, by a long way; by many degrees. [Slang] Lowell. — Chalk
drawing (Fine Arts), a drawing made with crayons. See Crayon. — Chalk formation. See Cretaceous
formation, under Cretaceous. — Chalk line, a cord rubbed with chalk, used for making straight lines
on boards or other material, as a guide in cutting or in arranging work. — Chalk mixture, a preparation
of chalk, cinnamon, and sugar in gum water, much used in diarrheal affection, esp. of infants. — Chalk
period. (Geol.) See Cretaceous period, under Cretaceous. - - Chalk pit, a pit in which chalk is
dug. — Drawing chalk. See Crayon, n., 1. — French chalk, steatite or soapstone, a soft magnesian
mineral. — Red chalk, an indurated clayey ocher containing iron, and used by painters and artificers; reddle.
Chalk
(Chalk), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chalked ; p. pr. & vb. n. Chalking.]
1. To rub or mark with chalk.
2. To manure with chalk, as land. Morimer.
3. To make white, as with chalk; to make pale; to bleach. Tennyson.
Let a bleak paleness chalk the door.
Herbert.
To chalk out, to sketch with, or as with, chalk; to outline; to indicate; to plan. [Colloq.] "I shall pursue the
plan I have chalked out." Burke.
