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Temporary :: Temporary (a.) Lasting for a time only; existing or continuing for a limited time; not permanent; as, the patient has obtained temporary relief..

Demirelievo :: Demirelievo (n.) Half relief. See Demi-rilievo.

Emboss :: Emboss (v. t.) To raise in relief from a surface, as an ornament, a head on a coin, or the like..

Ectype :: Ectype (n.) A work sculptured in relief, as a cameo, or in bas-relief (in this sense used loosely)..

Mullar :: Mullar (n.) A die, cut in intaglio, for stamping an ornament in relief, as upon metal..

Polytype :: Polytype (n.) A cast, or facsimile copy, of an engraved block, matter in type, etc. (see citation); as, a polytype in relief..

Grace :: Grace (n.) The same prerogative when exercised in the form of equitable relief through chancery.

Photorelief :: Photorelief (n.) A printing surface in relief, obtained by photographic means and subsequent manipulations..

Recreative :: Recreative (a.) Tending to recreate or refresh; recreating; giving new vigor or animation; reinvigorating; giving relief after labor or pain; amusing; diverting.

Easement :: Easement (n.) That which gives ease, relief, or assistance; convenience; accommodation..

Woodbury-type :: Woodbury-type (n.) A process in photographic printing, in which a relief pattern in gelatin, which has been hardened after certain operations, is pressed upon a plate of lead or other soft metal. An intaglio impression in thus produced, from which pictures may be directly printed, but by a slower process than in common printing..

Relief :: Relief (n.) The projection of a figure above the ground or plane on which it is formed.

Electro-tint :: Electro-tint (n.) A style of engraving in relief by means of voltaic electricity. A picture is drawn on a metallic plate with some material which resists the fluids of a battery; so that, in electro-typing, the parts not covered by the varnish, etc., receive a deposition of metal, and produce the required copy in intaglio. A cast of this is then the plate for printing..

Medallion :: Medallion (n.) A circular or oval (or, sometimes, square) tablet bearing a figure or figures represented in relief..

Chemitype :: Chemitype (n.) One of a number of processes by which an impression from an engraved plate is obtained in relief, to be used for printing on an ordinary printing press..

Foreground :: Foreground (n.) On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the work of art itself. Cf. Distance, n., 6..

Flatness :: Flatness (n.) Eveness of surface; want of relief or prominence; the state of being plane or level.

Redress :: Redress (n.) One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser..

Demi-rilievo :: Demi-rilievo (n.) Half relief; sculpture in relief of which the figures project from the background by one half their full roundness.

Champe :: Champe (n.) The field or ground on which carving appears in relief.

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