What is "incise"

Usage examples of "incise".

Most of them, by nineteenth-century scientists, described incised bones, stone tools, and anatomically modern skeletal remains encountered in unexpectedly old geological contexts.

The Origin of Species, many scientists found incised and broken bones indicating a human presence in the Pliocene, Miocene, and earlier periods.

For example, stone tools were sometimes found along with incised bones, and experiments with these implements produced marks on fresh bone exactly resembling those found on the fossils.

Nonetheless, reports of incised and broken bones indicating a human presence in the Pliocene and earlier are absent from the currently accepted stock of evidence.

Kurgan saw that he was approaching a heartwood door bound in bands of thick bronze incised with Kundalan runes.

She swung down one stairway and up another, down a cool, hypostyle hall, past rows of incised reliefs, past startlingly real paintings.

He was standing in a small vestibule, with an intricately modeled ceiling and a beautiful swirl of kufic letters incised around the walls.

For instance, in the treatment of polyps he says that they should be incised and cauterized.

Many Yayoi pieces have no decoration at all, whereas others have bands of thinly incised geometric designs that contrast sharply in their simplicity with the typically florid patterning of Jomon pottery.

Sunlight streamed in through the intricate patterns of incised wooden shutters, throwing arabesques of brilliant light and deep shadow across the tiled floor.

They removed the skin, incised the flesh, bared the bones, separated the bundles of nerves, untangled the knotted muscles, opened the organs of the senses, isolated all the membranes, undid all the cartilages, detached all the entrails.

The almost calligraphically incised letters and numbers ran in an arc along the table's edge, so small as to go unnoticed unless you were looking directly at them.

The running sore at the corner of my mouth, the insect bites damasking my flesh, the bruises and abrasions incising their steel-blue intaglios on my shins .

Master Avenel sipped from a polished driftwood mazer reinforced with a silver foot-rim incised with a pattern of scales.

She wore a vestigial slip of red cotton twisted between her thighs and her long, sinuous back was upholstered in cut velvet, for it was whorled and ridged with the tribal markings incised on her when her menses began -- raised designs like the contour map of an unknown place.