engraving

engraving
    n 1: a print made from an engraving
    2: a block or plate or other hard surface that has been engraved
    3: making engraved or etched plates and printing designs from
       them [syn: {engraving}, {etching}]
    

Engrave \En*grave"\, v. t. [imp. {Engraved}; p. p. {Engraved} or
   {Engraven}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Engraving}.] [Pref. en- + grave
   to carve: cf. OF. engraver.]
   1. To cut in; to make by incision. [Obs.]
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            Full many wounds in his corrupted flesh
            He did engrave.                       --Spenser.
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   2. To cut with a graving instrument in order to form an
      inscription or pictorial representation; to carve figures;
      to mark with incisions.
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            Like . . . . a signet thou engrave the two stones
            with the names of the children of Israel. --Ex.
                                                  xxviii. 11.
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   3. To form or represent by means of incisions upon wood,
      stone, metal, or the like; as, to engrave an inscription.
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   4. To impress deeply; to infix, as if with a graver.
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            Engrave principles in men's minds.    --Locke.
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Engraving \En*grav"ing\, n.
   1. 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.
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   2. That which is engraved; an engraved plate.
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   3. An impression from an engraved plate, block of wood, or
      other material; a print.
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   Note: Engraving on wood is called xylography; on copper,
         chalcography; on stone lithography. Engravings or
         prints take from wood blocks are usually called wood
         cuts, those from stone, lithographs.
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222 Moby Thesaurus words for "engraving":
      CYSP sculpture, abstract, abstract art, abstraction, altarpiece,
      anaglyph, anaglyptics, anaglyptography, aquatint,
      architectural sculpture, art, art form, artist, arts and crafts,
      arts of design, autolithograph, bezel, birthmark, blaze, blemish,
      block, block print, blotch, bone-carving, brand, burr, calligraphy,
      cameo, caste mark, casting, cave art, ceramics, ceroplastics,
      chamfer, chase, chasing, check, checkmark, chink, chiseling,
      chromolithograph, cicatrix, clay sculpture, collage, color print,
      copperplate, copperplate print, copy, corrugation, crack, cranny,
      crayon engraving, cross-hatching, cut, cyclorama, dado, dapple,
      daub, decoration, decorative sculpture, demitint, design,
      designing, diptych, discoloration, dot, earmark, earth art,
      embossing, engravement, etch, etching, fine arts, fleck, flick,
      flute, fluting, folk art, founding, freckle, fresco, furrow,
      garden sculpture, gash, gem-cutting, gem-engraving,
      glass sculpture, glass-cutting, glyptic, gouge, graphic arts,
      graphotype, graving, groove, hack, half tint, hatching, icon,
      illumination, illustration, image, impress, impression, imprint,
      incision, inscript, inscription, intaglio, ivory-carving, jot,
      lentigo, likeness, line, lining, linoleum-block print, lithograph,
      lost-wax process, macula, mark, marking, metal sculpture,
      mezzotint, microgroove, miniature, modeling, molding, mole,
      montage, monumental sculpture, mosaic, mottle, mural, negative,
      nevus, nick, notch, panorama, paper sculpture, patch, photograph,
      photography, picture, plaster casting, plastic art, point,
      polka dot, portrait sculpture, prick, primitive art, print,
      puncture, rabbet, relief, relief-carving, relievo, representation,
      reproduction, rifling, rubber-block print, ruck, rut, scar,
      scarification, score, scoring, scotch, scratch, scratching,
      sculptor, sculpture, sculpturing, shell-carving, slash, slashing,
      slit, speck, speckle, splash, splotch, spot, stain,
      stained glass window, statuary, steel engraving, stencil, stigma,
      still life, stipple, stippling, stone sculpture, stonecutting,
      strawberry mark, streak, stria, striation, sulcation, sulcus,
      tableau, tapestry, tattoo, tattoo mark, the arts, tick, tint,
      tittle, tooling, triptych, type-cutting, vignette, wall painting,
      watermark, well-worn groove, whittling, wire sculpture,
      wood carving, wood engraving, woodblock, woodcut, woodprint,
      wrinkle, xyloglyphy, xylograph