or ink-pot, adj. (obsolete).—Pedantic; dry; smelling of the lamp.
1579. CHURCHYARD, Choice, sig. Ee 1. As YNKEHORNE termes smell of the schoole sometyme.
1592. NASHE, Summer’s Last Will [DODSLEY, Old Plays, 1874, viii. 70].
| Men that, removed from their INK-HORN terms, | |
| Bring forth no action worthy of their bread. |
