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

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 The process has been superseded by electrotypy..

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

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..

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..

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

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

Or :: Or (n.) Yellow or gold color, -- represented in drawing or engraving by small dots..

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..

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]..

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

Graving :: Graving (n.) The act of cleaning a ship's bottom.

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

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

Potichomanie :: Potichomanie (n.) The art or process of coating the inside of glass vessels with engravings or paintings, so as to give them the appearance of painted ware..

Graving :: Graving (n.) Impression, as upon the mind or heart..

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..

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)..

Dactyliology :: Dactyliology (n.) That branch of archaeology which has to do with gem engraving.

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