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

Chalcography :: Chalcography (n.) The act or art of engraving on copper or brass, especially of engraving for printing..

Legend :: Legend (n.) An inscription, motto, or title, esp. one surrounding the field in a medal or coin, or placed upon an heraldic shield or beneath an engraving or illustration..

Etching :: Etching (n.) The act, art, or practice of engraving by means of acid which eats away lines or surfaces left unprotected in metal, glass, or the like. See Etch, v. t..

Scauper :: Scauper (n.) A tool with a semicircular edge, -- used by engravers to clear away the spaces between the lines of an engraving..

Demitint :: Demitint (n.) That part of a painting, engraving, or the like, which is neither in full darkness nor full light..

Engrave :: Engrave (v. t.) To cut with a graving instrument in order to form an inscription or pictorial representation; to carve figures; to mark with incisions.

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

Mezzotint :: Mezzotint (n.) A manner of engraving on copper or steel by drawing upon a surface previously roughened, and then removing the roughness in places by scraping, burnishing, etc., so as to produce the requisite light and shade. Also, an engraving so produced..

Dark :: Dark (n.) A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, or the like; as, the light and darks are well contrasted..

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

Chipping :: Chipping (n.) A chip; a piece separated by a cutting or graving instrument; a fragment.

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 The process has been superseded by electrotypy..

Engraving :: Engraving (n.) The act or art of producing upon hard material incised or raised patterns, characters, lines, and the like; especially, the art of producing such lines, etc., in the surface of metal plates or blocks of wood. Engraving is used for the decoration of the surface itself; also, for producing an original, from which a pattern or design may be printed on paper..

Style :: Style (v. t.) A sharp-pointed tool used in engraving; a graver.

Lithoglyphic :: Lithoglyphic (a.) Of or pertaining to the art of cutting and engraving precious stones.

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

Stipple :: Stipple (v. t.) To engrave by means of dots, in distinction from engraving in lines..

Photogravure :: Photogravure (n.) A photoengraving; also, the process by which such a picture is produced..

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

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