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chalk

  [chawk]
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–noun
1. a soft, white, powdery limestone consisting chiefly of fossil shells of foraminifers.
2. a prepared piece of chalk or chalklike substance for marking, as a blackboard crayon.
3. a mark made with chalk.
4. a score or tally.
–verb (used with object)
5. to mark or write with chalk.
6. to rub over or whiten with chalk.
7. to treat or mix with chalk: to chalk a billiard cue.
8. to make pale; blanch: Terror chalked her face.
–verb (used without object)
9. (of paint) to powder from weathering.
–adjective
10. of, made of, or drawn with chalk.
—Verb phrase
11. chalk up,
a. to score or earn: They chalked up two runs in the first inning.
b. to charge or ascribe to: It was a poor performance, but may be chalked up to lack of practice.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME chalke, OE cealc < L calc- (s. of calx) lime

Related forms:
chalklike, adjective
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Word Origin & History

chalk 
O.E. cealc, W.Gmc. borrowing from L. calx "limestone, lime," from Gk. khalix "small pebble." In most Gmc. languages still with the "limestone" sense, but in Eng. transferred to the opaque, white, soft limestone found abundantly in the south of the island.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: chalk
Pronunciation: 'chok
Function: noun
: a soft white, gray, or buff limestone composed chiefly of the shells of foraminifers and sometimesused medicinally as a source of calcium carbonate called also creta; —see PRECIPITATED CHALK, PREPARED CHALK —chalky /'cho-kE/ adjective
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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