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Webster 1828 Edition


Inlaying

INLA'YING

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The operation of diversifying or ornamenting work with thin pieces of wood, set in a ground of other wood.

Definition 2024


inlaying

inlaying

English

Verb

inlaying

  1. present participle of inlay

Noun

inlaying (plural inlayings)

  1. An inlaid pattern.
    • 1848, Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences (page 363)
      By these means a device is obtained, the ground of which is composed of green or English gold, with inlayings of silver and fine gold.