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Webster 1913 Edition

Damasken

{

Dam′as-keenˊ

,

Dam′as-ken

, }
Verb.
T.
[F.
damaschinare
. See
Damascene
,
Verb.
]
To decorate, as iron, steel, etc., with a peculiar marking or “water” produced in the process of manufacture, or with designs produced by inlaying or incrusting with another metal, as silver or gold, or by etching, etc., to damask.
Damaskeening
is is partly mosaic work, partly engraving, and partly carving.
Ure.

Webster 1828 Edition

Damasken

DAM'ASKEN

or DAM'ASKEEN,
Verb.
T.
To make incisions in iron, steel, &c., and fill them with gold or silver wire, for ornament; used chiefly for adorning swordblades, guards, locks of pistols, &c.

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