• INK, n. A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic, and water, chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote intellectual crime.

    Ambrose Bierce: INK, n. A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic, and water, chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote intellectual crime.
    Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.130, University of Georgia Press