Dictionary entry

Chalk (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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. “I shall pursue the plan I have chalked out.” Burke.