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An etching or a print from an etched plate.

ave a calcareous, usually more or less spheroidal or disk-shaped, composed of many united plates, and covered with movable spines. See Spatangoid, Clypeastroid. [Written also Echinidea, and Echinoida.]

on of the spirit, as when the soul, unconscious of sensible objects, is supposed to contemplate heavenly mysteries. Like a mad prophet in an ecstasy. Dryden. This is the very ecstasy of love. Shak.

A method of etching in which the design upon the plate is produced in relief.

chine, a machine tool with a revolving cutter, for dressing edges, as of boards, or metal plates, to a pattern or templet.

of engraving in relief by means of voltaic electricity. A picture is drawn on a metallic plate with some material which resists the fluids of a battery; so that, in electro-typing, the parts not covered by the varnish, etc., receive a deposition of metal, and produce the required copy in intaglio. A cast of this is th…

duction, consisting of a flat cake of resin, shelllac, or ebonite, upon which is placed a plate of metal.

A facsimile plate made by electrotypy for use in printing; also, an impression or print from such plate. Also used adjectively.

The process of producing electrotype plates. See Note under Electrotype, n.

German-silver plate. See German silver, under German.

A plate which supports the labrum in certain Crustacea.

An internal process of the sternal plates in the thorax of insects.

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.

he orders of Nemertina, characterized by the presence of a peculiar armature of spines or plates in the proboscis.

The median plate of the plastron of turtles; -- called also entosternum.

was of plain linen; that for the high priest was richly embroidered in colors. The breastplate of the high priest was worn upon the ephod in front. Exodus xxviii. 6-12.

One of the first pair of lateral plates in the plastron of turtles.

A thin metal plate or shield to protect wood, or for ornament, as the shield around a keyhole.

A defense for the shoulder, composed of flexible overlapping plates of metal, used in the 15th century; -- the origin of the modern epaulette. Fairholt.

To subject to etching; to draw upon and bite with acid, as a plate of metal. I was etching a plate at the beginning of 1875. Hamerton.