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gall-nut inks

gall-nut inks is the plural of gall-nut ink.

Meaning of gall-nut ink

Noun

gall-nut ink (plural gall-nut inks)

  1. acid blue-to-black ink, blue or purple when fresh, but turning intense black from iron oxidation, containing iron ions and tannic acids obtained from crushed gall-nuts and a solution of gum, or glue, and copperas, slowly replaced carbon ink and used from late antiquity to 20th century
    Synonyms:
    gall nut ink, gallnut ink, iron-gall ink, iron gall ink, oak-gall ink, oak gall ink, standard ink, common ink

Questions about gall-nut inks

What is gall-nut inks the plural of?
Gall-nut inks is the plural of gall-nut ink.

Words near gall-nut inks in the dictionary

  1. gall wasp
  2. gall wasps
  3. gall-less
  4. gall-nut
  5. gall-nut ink
  6. gall-nut inks
  7. gall-nuts
  8. gall-of-the-earth
  9. Gall-Peters projection
  10. Gall.
  11. galla

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