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Hollow :: Hollow (v. t.) To make hollow, as by digging, cutting, or engraving; to excavate..

Azure :: Azure (n.) A blue color, represented in engraving by horizontal parallel lines..

Printer :: Printer (n.) One who prints; especially, one who prints books, newspapers, engravings, etc., a compositor; a typesetter; a pressman..

Engraved :: Engraved (a.) Made by engraving or ornamented with engraving.

Creux :: Creux (n.) Used in English only in the expression en creux. Thus, engraving en creux is engraving in intaglio, or by sinking or hollowing out the design..

Micrograph :: Micrograph (n.) An instrument for executing minute writing or engraving.

Scrimshaw :: Scrimshaw (v. t.) To ornament, as shells, ivory, etc., by engraving, and (usually) rubbing pigments into the incised lines..

Photoglyphy :: Photoglyphy (n.) Photoglyphic engraving. See under Photoglyphic.

Epigraphy :: Epigraphy (n.) The science of inscriptions; the art of engraving inscriptions or of deciphering them.

Vignette :: Vignette (v. t.) To make, as an engraving or a photograph, with a border or edge insensibly fading away..

Intergraving :: Intergraving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Intergrav.

Bridge :: Bridge (n.) Anything supported at the ends, which serves to keep some other thing from resting upon the object spanned, as in engraving, watchmaking, etc., or which forms a platform or staging over which something passes or is conveyed..

Art :: Art (n.) A system of rules serving to facilitate the performance of certain actions; a system of principles and rules for attaining a desired end; method of doing well some special work; -- often contradistinguished from science or speculative principles; as, the art of building or engraving; the art of war; the art of navigation..

Glyptographic :: Glyptographic (a.) Relating to glyptography, or the art of engraving on precious stones..

Insculpture :: Insculpture (n.) An engraving, carving, or inscription..

Xylography :: Xylography (n.) The art of engraving on wood.

Engraving :: Engraving (n.) 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..

Graving :: Graving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Grav.

Grangerism :: Grangerism (n.) The practice of illustrating a particular book by engravings collected from other books.

Heliogravure :: Heliogravure (n.) The process of photographic engraving.

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