Squid’s Ink

Ink

Ink is a gel, sol, or solution that contains at least one colorant, such as a dye or pigment, and is used to color a surface to produce an image, text, or design. Ink is used for drawing or writing with a pen, brush, reed pen, or quill. Thicker inks, in paste form, are used extensively in letterpress and lithographic printing.

Squid

A squid is a mollusc with an elongated soft body, large eyes, eight arms, and two tentacles in the orders Myopsida, Oegopsida, and Bathyteuthida. Like all other cephalopods, squid have a distinct head, bilateral symmetry, and a mantle. They are mainly soft-bodied, like octopuses, but have a small internal skeleton in the form of a rod-like gladius or pen, made of chitin.

squid

Noun

1. Any of several carnivorous marine cephalopod mollusks, of the order Teuthida, having a mantle, eight arms, and a pair of tentacles.
2. A fishhook with a piece of bright lead, bone, or other substance fastened on its shank to imitate a squid.

Verb

1. To fish with a squid fishhook.
2. To cause squidding (an improper, partial, parachute inflation, that results in the sides of the parachute folding in on the center, and pulsating back and forth).

ink

Noun

1. A pigment (or dye)-based fluid used for writing, printing etc.
2. A particular type, color or container of this fluid.

Verb

1. To apply ink to; to cover or smear with ink.
2. To sign (a contract or similar document).