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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..

Graphoscope :: Graphoscope (n.) An optical instrument for magnifying engravings, photographs, etc., usually having one large lens and two smaller ones..

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

Zincography :: Zincography (n.) The art or process of engraving or etching on zinc, in which the design is left in relief in the style of a wood cut, the rest of the ground being eaten away by acid..

Hyalography :: Hyalography (n.) Art of writing or engraving on glass.

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..

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..

Crosshatching :: Crosshatching (n.) In drawing and line engraving, shading with lines that cross one another at an angle..

Glyptics :: Glyptics (n.) The art of engraving on precious stones.

Polytype :: Polytype (v. t.) To produce a polytype of; as, to polytype an engraving..

Gravery :: Gravery (n.) The act, process, or art, of graving or carving; engraving..

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..

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..

Execution :: Execution (n.) The act of the mode of performing a work of art, of performing on an instrument, of engraving, etc.; as, the execution of a statue, painting, or piece of music..

Photoglyphic :: Photoglyphic (a.) Pertaining to the art of engraving by the action of light.

Stereotype :: Stereotype (n.) A plate forming an exact faximile of a page of type or of an engraving, used in printing books, etc.; specifically, a plate with type-metal face, used for printing..

Dactyliography :: Dactyliography (n.) The art of writing or engraving upon gems.

Purpure :: Purpure (n.) Purple, -- represented in engraving by diagonal lines declining from the right top to the left base of the escutcheon (or from sinister chief to dexter base)..

Burin :: Burin (n.) The cutting tool of an engraver on metal, used in line engraving. It is made of tempered steel, one end being ground off obliquely so as to produce a sharp point, and the other end inserted in a handle; a graver; also, the similarly shaped tool used by workers in marble..

Engraving :: Engraving (n.) That which is engraved; an engraved plate.

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