Etched
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Etch \Etch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Etched}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Etching}.] [D. etsen, G. [aum]tzen to feed, corrode, etch.
MHG. etzen, causative of ezzen to eat, G. essen ??. See
{Eat}.]
1. To produce, as figures or designs, on mental, glass, or
the like, by means of lines or strokes eaten in or
corroded by means of some strong acid.
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Note: The plate is first covered with varnish, or some other
ground capable of resisting the acid, and this is then
scored or scratched with a needle, or similar
instrument, so as to form the drawing; the plate is
then covered with acid, which corrodes the metal in the
lines thus laid bare.
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2. To subject to etching; to draw upon and bite with acid, as
a plate of metal.
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I was etching a plate at the beginning of 1875.
--Hamerton.
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3. To sketch; to delineate. [R.]
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There are many empty terms to be found in some
learned writes, to which they had recourse to etch
out their system. --Locke.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
42 Moby Thesaurus words for "etched":
confirmed, deep-dyed, deep-engraven, deep-fixed, deep-grounded,
deep-laid, deep-rooted, deep-seated, deep-set, deep-settled,
dyed-in-the-wool, embedded, embossed, engrafted, engraved,
entrenched, established, firmly established, graven, implanted,
impressed, imprinted, indelibly impressed, infixed, ingrained,
ingrown, inveterate, inwrought, long-established, old-line,
on a rock, on bedrock, rooted, set, settled, stabilized, vested,
well-established, well-founded, well-grounded, well-set,
well-settled
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