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Engraving   /ɪngrˈeɪvɪŋ/   Listen
Engraving

noun
1.
A print made from an engraving.
2.
A block or plate or other hard surface that has been engraved.
3.
Making engraved or etched plates and printing designs from them.  Synonym: etching.


Engrave

verb
(past engraved; past part. engraved or engraven; pres. part. engraving)
1.
Carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface.  Synonyms: grave, inscribe, scratch.  "Engraved the trophy cupt with the winner's" , "The lovers scratched their names into the bark of the tree"
2.
Impress or affect deeply.
3.
Carve or cut into a block used for printing or print from such a block.  Synonym: etch.
4.
Carve or cut a design or letters into.  Synonym: etch.



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"Engraving" Quotes from Famous Books



... room itself were good yet simple furnishings. The wall paper was of a small and ancient figuring. In places it hung torn. The furniture was old mahogany, apparently made in an earlier generation. An engraving or so hung askew upon the wall, a broken bust stood on a bracket. The tall tester bed, decorated with a patchwork silken covering, showed signs of comfort, but was neither modern nor over neat. The room was not furnished in poverty, but its spirit, its atmosphere, its feeling, ...
— The Purchase Price • Emerson Hough
... presages; and so did other learned men of his time. Dugdale anticipated the approaching scenes in 1641, when many ancient monuments were destroyed. So convinced was he of their early destruction, that he hurried on his itinerant labours of taking sketches and engraving inscriptions, to preserve their history and appearance for future times. Sir Thomas More was enabled to judge from passing events of what was to happen in after years. Erasmus, when looking at the tomb of Becket at Canterbury, wished that the jewels with which ...
— The Mysteries of All Nations • James Grant
... damask cloth. Beside a window in which were placed some bright plants, an old leathern arm-chair was standing, which the magistrate intended for a throne. The walls were covered with some portraits of the royal family of Prussia. Around a wretched engraving of Frederick a wreath of immortelles and forget-me-nots was woven. In a corner stood a large bed with clean white curtains in readiness for the king. When every thing was arranged, with a last proud look at his handsome dwelling, the magistrate hurried to the front door, waiting anxiously for ...
— Frederick The Great and His Family • L. Muhlbach
... The engraving is probably an improvement upon the original house in the symmetry of the structure, but it is doubtless a truthful representation of its mechanism. It seems likely that a double set of upright poles were used, one upon the outside and one on the inside, between which the ...
— Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines • Lewis H. Morgan
... plants and flowers, which might have been taken out of an old German herbal. The landscapes and peasantry are unmistakably English. The pictures are worked with strong black outlines which emphasize every detail and give the effect of a highly coloured outlined engraving; reminding one of the children's books by Marcus Ward ...
— Needlework As Art • Marian Alford


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