Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Blacking; ink; any black fluid, as the ink of the cuttlefish.
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Examples
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The irises of those eyes, whose pupils were blacker than atrament, varied singularly in shades of shifting colour.
King Candaules Th��ophile Gautier 1841
hierophant commented on the word atrament
'very dark liquid'
March 31, 2008
jmjarmstrong commented on the word atrament
JM wonders who it is that paints his windows with atrament every night.
January 30, 2011
knitandpurl commented on the word atrament
"Orbiting the risen thought
That sang up to the atrament"
"Sheep Meadow" in The Ground by Rowan Ricardo Phillips
April 27, 2014