chalky, a.
(ˈtʃɔːkɪ)
[f. chalk n. + -y1.]
1. Consisting of or characterized by chalk; abounding in chalk.
| c 1400 Test. Love Prol. (1560) 271 b, Some men there been, that painten..with coles and chalke; and yet is there good matter to the leude people of thicke chalkie purtreyture. 1580 Baret Alv. C 304 Chalkie or full of chalke. 1593 Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, iii. ii. 101. 1598 Yong Diana 485 Chalkie cliffes are steept in Brittish seas. 1610 W. Folkingham Art of Survey i. ii. 3 Chaulkie, Clayie, Sandie Earth. 1662 J. Bargrave Pope Alex. VII (1867) 125 Of a chauchy or brimstony matter. 1762–9 Falconer Shipwr. i. 38 The chalky cliffs salute their longing eyes. 1785 Cowper Tiroc. 307 To kneel and draw The chalky ring and knuckle down at taw. 1812 Byron Waltz xiii, Round the chalky floor how well they trip. 1846 J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. I. 98 The beech-tree is..in high, chalky, and gravelly soils. |
2. Resembling chalk in colour or consistence, chalk-white.
| 1611 Bible Song 3 Child. i. 22 marg., Naphtha, which is a certaine kind of fat and chalkie clay. 1616 B. Holyday Persius 329 Whom candidate chaulky ambition Draws gaping to her lure. 1762–71 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) I. 268 The colouring is flat and chalky. 1802 Med. Jrnl. VIII. 290 A very white, chalky appearance of the fæces. 1882 Garden 1 Apr. 223/3 Chalky white flowers. |
3. Pathol. Of the nature of chalk, or of a chalk-stone (sense 3), or containing chalk-stones.
| 1782 A. Monro Anat. 43 It may be..chalky from the gout. 1834 J. Forbes Laennec's Dis. Chest 351 Bony and chalky concretions. 1876 tr. Wagner's Gen. Pathol. 320 Chalky calculi consist chiefly of carbonate and phosphate of lime. |
4. Comb., as chalky-faced adj.
| 1807 W. Irving Salmag. (1824) 293 Such a little chalky-faced puppet. |