Associations to the word «Inkhorn»

Wiktionary

INKHORN, noun. (archaic) A small portable container, often made of horn, used to carry ink.
INKHORN, noun. (used attributively) (pejorative) (of vocabulary) Pedantic, obscurely scholarly.
INKHORN TERM, noun. An obscure, affectedly or ostentatiously learned or erudite borrowing from another language, especially from Latin or Greek.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne