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Letterer :: Letterer (n.) One who makes, inscribes, or engraves, alphabetical letters..

Cipher :: Cipher (n.) A combination or interweaving of letters, as the initials of a name; a device; a monogram; as, a painter's cipher, an engraver's cipher, etc. The cut represents the initials N. W..

Graver :: Graver (n.) One who graves; an engraver or a sculptor; one whose occupation is te cut letters or figures in stone or other hard material.

Sculpture :: Sculpture (v. t.) To form with the chisel on, in, or from, wood, stone, or metal; to carve; to engrave..

Mezzotinto :: Mezzotinto (v. t.) To engrave in mezzotint; to represent by mezzotint.

Photoxylography :: Photoxylography (n.) The process of producing a representation of an object on wood, by photography, for the use of the wood engraver..

Exergue :: Exergue (n.) The small space beneath the base line of a subject engraved on a coin or medal. It usually contains the date, place, engraver's name, etc., or other subsidiary matter..

Breastplate :: Breastplate (n.) A part of the vestment of the high priest, worn upon the front of the ephod. It was a double piece of richly embroidered stuff, a span square, set with twelve precious stones, on which were engraved the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. See Ephod..

Reengrave :: Reengrave (v. t.) To engrave anew.

Engrave :: Engrave (v. t.) To cut in; to make by incision.

Mezzotint :: Mezzotint (v. t.) To engrave in mezzotint.

Block Book :: Block book () A book printed from engraved wooden blocks instead of movable types.

Begrave :: Begrave (v. t.) To bury; also, to engrave..

Polytype :: Polytype (n.) A cast, or facsimile copy, of an engraved block, matter in type, etc. (see citation); as, a polytype in relief..

Diesinker :: Diesinker (n.) An engraver of dies for stamping coins, medals, etc..

Siderography :: Siderography (n.) The art or practice of steel engraving; especially, the process, invented by Perkins, of multiplying facsimiles of an engraved steel plate by first rolling over it, when hardened, a soft steel cylinder, and then rolling the cylinder, when hardened, over a soft steel plate, which thus becomes a facsimile of the original. The process has been superseded by electrotypy..

Pinxit :: Pinxit () A word appended to the artist's name or initials on a painting, or engraved copy of a painting; as, Rubens pinxit, Rubens painted (this)..

Engraved :: Engraved (imp.) of Engrav.

Engrave :: Engrave (v. t.) To deposit in the grave; to bury.

Write :: Write (v. t.) To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave; as, truth written on the heart..

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