inkpot
(ˈɪŋkpɒt)
[ink n.1]
1. A small pot for holding writing-ink.
| 1553 [see 2]. 1590 Lodge Euphues' Gold. Leg. (1592) H iv, They only haue their humours in their inck-pot. 1740 Swift Wks. (1778) XI. 396, I bequeath to Deane Swift Esq; my large silver standish, consisting of a large silver plate, an ink-pot, a sand-box [etc.]. 1860 Emerson Cond. Life, Worship Wks. (Bohn) II. 393, I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot. |
2. attrib. inkpot term = ink-horn term (see ink-horn 2 b).
| 1553 T. Wilson Rhet. (1580) 156 A very Caulf that..thought by his ynke pot termes to get a good Parsonage. 1604 T. Wright Passions iv. ii. 141 To vse..Poetical phrases in prose, or incke-pot tearmes smelleth of affectation. |