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One who engraves in mezzotint.

To engrave in mezzotint; to represent by mezzotint.

). Monograms are often used on seals, ornamental pins, rings, buttons, and by painters, engravers, etc., to distinguish their works. Monogram.

tates, followers of Joseph Smith, who professed to have found an addition to the Bible, engraved on golden plates, called the Book of Mormon, first published in 1830. The Mormons believe in polygamy, and their hierarchy of apostles, etc., has control of civil and religious matters.

h or origin; generatrix. Alas! poor country! ... it can not Be called our mother, but our grave. Shak. I behold ... the solitary majesty of Crete, mother of a religion, it is said, that lived two thousand years. Landor.

as, he must reconsider the matter; he must have been insane. Likewise must the deacons be grave. 1 Tim. iii. 8. Morover, he [a bishop] must have a good report of them which are without. 1 Tim. iii. 7.

ven by the ancients to their cemeteries, and sometimes applied to modern burial places; a graveyard.

he middle 19th century. The term is rather one applied by outsiders to certain artists of grave and refined style, such as Hamon and Aubert, than a name adopted by the artists themselves.

of or pertaining to gravel, or renal calculi. Dunglison.

Done or obtained by surprise; with secrecy, or by concealment of the truth. [R.] Cotgrave.

To choose; to wish for; to desire. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

One of the ridges of sand or gravel found in Sweden, etc., supposed by some to be of marine origin, but probably formed by subglacial waters. The osar are similar to the kames of Scotland and the eschars of Ireland. See Eschar.

In art: A line drawn by pencil, pen, graver, or the like, by which the boundary of a figure is indicated.

The consort or widow of a palsgrave.

To haggle. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

To yield gold in, or as in, the process of panning; -- usually with out; as, the gravel panned out richly.

An engraved tablet, usually of brass, set up in a public place.

e; as, Parian marble. Parian chronicle, a most ancient chronicle of the city of Athens, engraved on marble in the Isle of Paros, now among the Arundelian marbles.

arrangement of beds or plots, in which flowers are cultivated, with intervening spaces of gravel or turf for walking on.

halberd or pike; also, a truncheon; a staff. And make him with our pikes and partisans a grave. Shak.