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

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 The process has been superseded by electrotypy..

Cradle :: Cradle (n.) A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so preparing the ground..

Photomechanical :: Photomechanical (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, any photographic process in which a printing surface is obtained without the intervention of hand engraving..

Publication :: Publication (n.) The act of offering a book, pamphlet, engraving, etc., to the public by sale or by gratuitous distribution..

Azure :: Azure (n.) A blue color, represented in engraving by horizontal parallel lines..

Engravement :: Engravement (n.) Engraving.

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

Graving :: Graving (n.) That which is graved or carved.

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..

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..

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..

Graving :: Graving (n.) The act or art of carving figures in hard substances, esp. by incision or in intaglio..

Lithoglyptics :: Lithoglyptics (n.) The art of cutting and engraving gems.

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

Heliogravure :: Heliogravure (n.) The process of photographic engraving.

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

Glyptography :: Glyptography (n.) The art or process of engraving on precious stones.

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

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