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Flat :: Flat (n.) A level surface, without elevation, relief, or prominences; an extended plain; specifically, in the United States, a level tract along the along the banks of a river; as, the Mohawk Flats..

Barbotine :: Barbotine (n.) A paste of clay used in decorating coarse pottery in relief.

Presswork :: Presswork (n.) The art of printing from the surface of type, plates, or engravings in relief, by means of a press; the work so done..

Relief :: Relief (n.) The elevations and surface undulations of a country.

Toreumatology :: Toreumatology (n.) The art or the description of scupture such as bas-relief in metal; toreumatography.

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.

Quarter :: Quarter (n.) The encampment on one of the principal passages round a place besieged, to prevent relief and intercept convoys..

Embossment :: Embossment (n.) A bosslike prominence; figure in relief; raised work; jut; protuberance; esp., a combination of raised surfaces having a decorative effect..

Ectypography :: Ectypography (n.) A method of etching in which the design upon the plate is produced in relief.

Relief :: Relief (n.) The appearance of projection given by shading, shadow, etc., to any figure..

Pseudoscope :: Pseudoscope (n.) An instrument which exhibits objects with their proper relief reversed; -- an effect opposite to that produced by the stereoscope.

Relievable :: Relievable (a.) Capable of being relieved; fitted to recieve relief.

Fret :: Fret (n.) Ornamental work in relief, as carving or embossing. See Fretwork..

Redress :: Redress (v. t.) To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.

Relieve :: Relieve (v. t.) To cause to seem to rise; to put in relief; to give prominence or conspicuousness to; to set off by contrast.

Repousse :: Repousse (a.) Formed in relief, as a pattern on metal..

Fretwork :: Fretwork (n.) Work adorned with frets; ornamental openwork or work in relief, esp. when elaborate and minute in its parts. Hence, any minute play of light and shade, dark and light, or the like..

Watch :: Watch (v. i.) The period of the night during which a person does duty as a sentinel, or guard; the time from the placing of a sentinel till his relief; hence, a division of the night..

Anaglyptic :: Anaglyptic (a.) Relating to the art of carving, enchasing, or embossing in low relief..

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