Crossword-Solution: CHALKIER 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 17

Though your teeth are very hard and glassy looking on the surface, they are much softer and chalkier inside; this glassy coating covers only the _crown_, or free part, of the tooth, which you can see.

They were on a back seat in the long courtroom,--Squint Rodaine and his son, chalkier, yet blacker than ever, while between them sat an old woman with white hair which straggled about her cheeks, a woman with deep-set eyes, whose hands wandered now and then vaguely before her; a wrinkled woman, fidgeting about on her seat, watching with craned neck those who stuffed their way within the already crammed room, her eyes never still, her lips moving constantly, as though mumbling some never-ending rote.