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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..

Intaglio :: Intaglio (n.) A cutting or engraving; a figure cut into something, as a gem, so as to make a design depressed below the surface of the material; hence, anything so carved or impressed, as a gem, matrix, etc.; -- opposed to cameo. Also used adjectively..

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

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

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..

Presswork :: Presswork (n.) The art of printing from the surface of type, plates, or engravings in relief, by means of a press; the work so done..

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

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

Anaglyptography :: Anaglyptography (n.) The art of copying works in relief, or of engraving as to give the subject an embossed or raised appearance; -- used in representing coins, bas-reliefs, etc..

Vignette :: Vignette (n.) A decorative design, originally representing vine branches or tendrils, at the head of a chapter, of a manuscript or printed book, or in a similar position; hence, by extension, any small picture in a book; hence, also, as such pictures are often without a definite bounding line, any picture, as an engraving, a photograph, or the like, which vanishes gradually at the edge..

Copyright :: Copyright (n.) The right of an author or his assignee, under statute, to print and publish his literary or artistic work, exclusively of all other persons. This right may be had in maps, charts, engravings, plays, and musical compositions, as well as in books..

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

Pointrel :: Pointrel (n.) A graving tool.

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

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

V :: V () V, the twenty-second letter of the English alphabet, is a vocal consonant. V and U are only varieties of the same character, U being the cursive form, while V is better adapted for engraving, as in stone. The two letters were formerly used indiscriminately, and till a comparatively recent date words containing them were often classed together in dictionaries and other books of reference (see U). The letter V is from the Latin alphabet, where it was used both as a consonant (about like Engli

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..

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..

Woodcut :: Woodcut (n.) An engraving on wood; also, a print from it. Same as Wood cut, under Wood..

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

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