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Webster 1913 Edition
Engraving
En-grav′ing
,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
,ppr.
ENGRA'VING
,Noun.
Definition 2024
engraving
engraving
English
An engraving.
Noun
engraving (plural engravings)
- The practice of incising a design onto a hard, flat surface, by cutting grooves into it.
- 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.
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- (music) The art of drawing music notation at high quality, see Engraving.
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Translations
the practice of incising a design onto a hard, flat surface
an engraved image
Verb
engraving
- present participle of engrave