[f. CHALKY + -NESS.] Chalky quality.
1774. Goldsm., Nat. Hist. (1791), I. 41. After boiling in water they become whitish, and left a chalkiness upon the fingers.
1805. Luccock, Nat. Wool, 162. The chalkiness of the land.
1820. Examiner., 12 March, 173/2. There is still a chalkiness in the flesh.
1866. Miss Braddon, Lady’s Mile, I. 137 (Hoppe). Pictures were accepted, and ‘skyed’: critics talked about coldness, and blackness, and chalkiness.
