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engraving

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a print made from an engraving a block or plate that has been engraved making engraved or etched plates and printing designs from them [syn: etching ]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Engraving is the practice of incising a design onto a hard, usually flat surface, by cutting grooves into it. The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or glass are engraved, or may provide an intaglio printing plate, ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Engrave \En*grave"\, v. t. [imp. Engraved ; p. p. Engraved or Engraven ; p. pr. & vb. n. Engraving .] [Pref. en- + grave to carve: cf. OF. engraver.] To cut in; to make by incision. [Obs.] Full many wounds in his corrupted flesh He did engrave. --Spenser. ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN wood ▪ The first of these was wood engraving , done on the end-grain of boxwood with a burin rather than a knife. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A figure moved slowly through the uncertain light towards him, as faceless and ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, "act of cutting designs, etc. on a hard surface," verbal noun from engrave (v.). Meaning "that which is engraved" is from 1610s; meaning "impression taken from an engraved plate" is from 1803.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The practice of incising a design onto a hard, flat surface, by cutting grooves into it. 2 An engraved image. vb. (present participle of engrave English)

Usage examples of engraving.

Thus, at one moment I was an Aurignacian, engraving his cave wall with vivid shapes of deer and bison, while my fellow hunters peered with admiration through the smoke.

Literary, Artistic, Historical, Topographical, Typographical, and Antiquarian Reminiscences connected with the early Printing and Engraving of Banbury involved that of many other important towns and counties of Great Britain, and also America.

Spanish mahogany, sentimental engravings, and an atmosphere in which the stale smoke of Beefs pipes blended with the last meal eaten at the plush-covered table.

It was printed over one broad, high cheekbone with a blackwork tattoo fine as engraving, an abstract patterned curl.

Brontosaurus, diplodocus, brachiosaurus, iguanodon, moschops, stegosaurus, triceratops, and other droppings were labeled by engraving on the bronze stands that held the spheres.

There were one or two engravings of landscapes and along the length of a shelf a set of Coalport plates, rather late Coalport, thought Mr.

But there is room to suspect that the elegance of his designs and engraving has somewhat flattered the objects which it was their purpose to represent.

The more important result of the study of past fashions, in engravings and paintings, remains to be spoken of.

One of his ancestors before him, Giusto Sperelli, had tried his hand at engraving.

The first edition of an illustrated work upon tillage and weaving was published in China in 1210, and contains an engraving of a loom constructed to weave flowered-silk brocades such as are woven at the present time at Suchow and Hangchow and elsewhere.

If the manure is to be used for root-crops or potatoes, and if the land is to be ridged, and the manure put in the ridges, then it will be desirable to put the heap on the headland, or, better still, to make two heaps, one on the headland top of the field, and the other on the headland at the bottom of the field, as shown in the annexed engraving.

The paintings of Kokan, who was the first Japanese to produce a copper engraving, are technically excellent and are definitive proof that long before the Meiji Restoration the Japanese had become thoroughly familiar with the mechanics of Western art.

He noticed the Landseer engraving hung against wallpaper designed in facsimile of large rectangles of gray stone, and the usual telephone memorandum for the usual Mrs.

The first edition of the Ptolemy Atlas, with the first set of maps ever produced by copper engraving, which appeared the following year, 1478, shows the interest that was taken at the time in connection with geography and cartography.

After denouncing the predaceous Interests he relapsed into an attitude of Meditation, with the Chin on the starched Front, very much like a Steel Engraving of Daniel Webster.