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A gap. [Obs.] Colgrave.

Engraved by a voltaic battary.

One of a number of processes by which an impression from an engraved plate is obtained in relief, to be used for printing on an ordinary printing press.

Gravel or pebbles. Halliwell.

A piece of timber or an iron barrel traversed with iron-pointed spikes or spears, five or six feet long, used to defend a passage, stop a breach, or impede the advance of cavalry, etc. Obstructions of chain, boom, and cheval-de-frise. W. Irving.

ritious seed, used in cookery, and especially, when roasted (parched pulse), as food for travelers in the Eastern deserts.

To cut, pare, gouge, or engrave with a chisel; as, to chisel a block of marble into a statue.

Having a large admixture of small pebbles or gravel; -- said of a soil. Gardner.

r knight-errantry; warlike; heroic; gallant; high-spirited; high-minded; magnanimous. In brave pursuit of chivalrous emprise. Spenser.

His Memphian chivalry." Milton. By his light Did all the chivalry of England move, To do brave acts. Shak.

r verses between the acts; also, that which was thus sung by the chorus. What the lofty, grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic. Milton.

The ground adjoining a church, in which the dead are buried; a cemetery. Like graves in the holy churchyard. Shak.

f letters, as the initials of a name; a device; a monogram; as, a painter's cipher, an engraver's cipher, etc. The cut represents the initials N. W.

To travel around. [Obs.] "Having circuited the air." T. Warton.

One who travels a circuit, as a circuit judge. [R.] R. Whitlock.

Travelling from house to house or from town to town; itinerant. [Obs.] "Circulatorious jugglers." Barrow.

To contravene; to nullify; as, to circumduct acts of judicature. [Obs.] Ayliffe.

Vigilance un guarding against evil from every quarter; caution. [Travel] forces circumspectness on those abroad, who at home are nursed in security. Sir H. Wotton.

A student of the civil law at a university or college. R. Graves.

secured to the ground; as distinguished from champlevé enamel, in which the ground is engraved or scooped out to receive the enamel. S. Wells Williams.