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Transfer :: Transfer (v. t.) To remove from one substance or surface to another; as, to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone..

Mezzotint :: Mezzotint (n.) A manner of engraving on copper or steel by drawing upon a surface previously roughened, and then removing the roughness in places by scraping, burnishing, etc., so as to produce the requisite light and shade. Also, an engraving so produced..

Engraving :: Engraving (n.) An impression from an engraved plate, block of wood, or other material; a print..

Picture :: Picture (n.) A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, produced by means of painting, drawing, engraving, photography, etc.; a representation in colors. By extension, a figure; a model..

Burr :: Burr (n.) The thin edge or ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal, as in turning, engraving, pressing, etc.; also, the rough neck left on a bullet in casting..

Celature :: Celature (n.) The act or art of engraving or embossing.

Hatch :: Hatch (v. t.) To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching.

Cut :: Cut (n.) An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving; as, a book illustrated with fine cuts..

Diesinking :: Diesinking (n.) The process of engraving dies.

At :: At (prep.) The relation of some employment or action; occupied with; as, at engraving; at husbandry; at play; at work; at meat (eating); except at puns..

Scarabee :: Scarabee (n.) A stylized representation of a scarab beetle in stone or faience; -- a symbol of resurrection, used by the ancient Egyptians as an ornament or a talisman, and in modern times used in jewelry, usually by engraving designs on cabuchon stones. Also used attributively; as, a scarab bracelet [a bracelet containing scarabs]; a scarab [the carved stone itelf]..

Photomechanical :: Photomechanical (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, any photographic process in which a printing surface is obtained without the intervention of hand engraving..

Hatching :: Hatching (n.) A mode of execution in engraving, drawing, and miniature painting, in which shading is produced by lines crossing each other at angles more or less acute; -- called also crosshatching..

Dactylioglyphi :: Dactylioglyphi (n.) The art or process of gem engraving.

Pen :: Pen (n.) An instrument used for writing with ink, formerly made of a reed, or of the quill of a goose or other bird, but now also of other materials, as of steel, gold, etc. Also, originally, a stylus or other instrument for scratching or graving..

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..

Glyptography :: Glyptography (n.) The art or process of engraving on precious stones.

Grave :: Grave (v. i.) To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving..

Incuse :: Incuse (v. t.) Cut or stamped in, or hollowed out by engraving..

Anaglyptograph :: Anaglyptograph (n.) An instrument by which a correct engraving of any embossed object, such as a medal or cameo, can be executed..

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