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Webster 1913 Edition


Engraving

En-grav′ing

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Noun.
1.
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.
2.
That which is engraved; an engraved plate.
3.
An impression from an engraved plate, block of wood, or other material; a print.
☞ 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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Engraving

ENGRA'VING

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ppr.
Cutting or marking stones or metals, with a chisel or graver; imprinting.

ENGRA'VING

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Noun.
The act or art of cutting stones, metals and other hard substances, and representing thereon figures, letters, characters and devices; a branch of sculpture.

Definition 2024


engraving

engraving

English

An engraving.

Noun

engraving (plural engravings)

  1. The practice of incising a design onto a hard, flat surface, by cutting grooves into it.
  2. An engraved image.
    • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 10, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
      He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess:
      He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him [] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood.
  3. (music)  The art of drawing music notation at high quality, see Engraving.

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Verb

engraving

  1. present participle of engrave