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. Shaks., 2 Hen. VI., III. ii. 101. As farre as I could ken thy Chalky Cliffes, When from thy Shore, the Tempest beate vs backe, I stood vpon the Hatches in the storme.
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. 93. The beech-tree is … in high, chalky, and gravelly soils.
2. Resembling chalk in color or consistence, chalk-white.
1611. Bible, Song 3 Child., i. 22, marg. Naptha, which is a certaine kind of fat and chalkie clay.
1616. 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 April, 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. trans. 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.
