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

Help :: Help (v. t.) Remedy; relief; as, there is no help for it..

Repousse :: Repousse (a.) Ornamented with patterns in relief made by pressing or hammering on the reverse side; -- said of thin metal, or of a vessel made of thin metal..

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

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..

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

Parturifacient :: Parturifacient (n.) A medicine tending to cause parturition, or to give relief in childbearing..

Bass-relief :: Bass-relief (n.) Some as Bas-relief.

Reliefful :: Reliefful (a.) Giving relief.

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

Anastatic :: Anastatic (a.) Pertaining to a process or a style of printing from characters in relief on zinc plates.

Aid :: Aid (v. t.) Help; succor; assistance; relief.

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

Succorable :: Succor (v. t.) The person or thing that brings relief.

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

Basso-relievo :: Basso-relievo (n.) Same as Bas-relief.

Relievement :: Relievement (n.) The act of relieving, or the state of being relieved; relief; release..

Neurotomy :: Neurotomy (n.) The division of a nerve, for the relief of neuralgia, or for other purposes..

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..

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

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