Crossword clues for engraving
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.]
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To cut in; to make by incision. [Obs.]
Full many wounds in his corrupted flesh He did engrave.
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To cut with a graving instrument in order to form an inscription or pictorial representation; to carve figures; to mark with incisions.
Like . . . . a signet thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel.
--Ex. xxviii. 11. To form or represent by means of incisions upon wood, stone, metal, or the like; as, to engrave an inscription.
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To impress deeply; to infix, as if with a graver.
Engrave principles in men's minds.
--Locke.
Engraving \En*grav"ing\, n.
The act or art of producing upon hard material incised or raised patterns, characters, lines, and the like; especially, the art of producing such lines, etc., in the surface of metal plates or blocks of wood. Engraving is used for the decoration of the surface itself; also, for producing an original, from which a pattern or design may be printed on paper.
That which is engraved; an engraved plate.
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An impression from an engraved plate, block of wood, or other material; a print.
Note: Engraving on wood is called xylography; on copper, chalcography; on stone lithography. Engravings or prints take from wood blocks are usually called wood cuts, those from stone, lithographs.
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
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)
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
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, of copper or another metal, for printing images on paper as prints or illustrations; these images are also called engravings.
Engraving was a historically important method of producing images on paper in artistic printmaking, in mapmaking, and also for commercial reproductions and illustrations for books and magazines. It has long been replaced by various photographic processes in its commercial applications and, partly because of the difficulty of learning the technique, is much less common in printmaking, where it has been largely replaced by etching and other techniques.
Traditional engraving, by burin or with the use of machines, continues to be practised by goldsmiths, glass engravers, gunsmiths and others, while modern industrial techniques such as photoengraving and laser engraving have many important applications. Engraved gems were an important art in the ancient world, revived at the Renaissance, although the term traditionally covers relief as well as intaglio carvings, and is essentially a branch of sculpture rather than engraving, as drills were the usual tools.
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.