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A small molding, carved into beads, pearls, olives, etc.

ntury. Chippendale furniture was generally of simple but graceful outline with delicately carved rococo ornamentation, sculptured either in the solid wood or, in the cheaper specimens, separately and glued on. In the more elaborate pieces three types are recognized: French Chippendale, having much detail, like Louis Qu…

Blockhead; dunce; -- so called because the handle of a cittern usually ended with a carved head. Marsion

A carver's mixture of resin, whiting, and glue, used instead of plaster of Paris for ornamenting walls and cornices.

p. p. of Carve. Chaucer.

A projecting ornament in carved stone. Specifically, a finial. [Obs.]

To form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.; to carve; to hew out. Why should a man. whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster Shak. Loopholes cut through thickest shade. Milton.

ve art considered as a new creation; conception or plan shown in completed work; as, this carved panel is a fine design, or of a fine design.

The earthy remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body. And you may carve a shrine about my dust. Tennyson.

The carved work under the quarter piece at the aft part of the quarter gallery. [Written also eiking.]

with a graving instrument in order to form an inscription or pictorial representation; to carve figures; to mark with incisions. Like . . . . a signet thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel. Ex. xxviii. 11.

Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio. [Obs.] "A work of rich entail." Spenser.

A carved ornament consisting of flowers, and leaves, intermixed or twisted together, wound with a ribbon, and hanging or depending in a natural curve. See Illust. of Bucranium.

To carve or cut up, as a chub.

See Forcarve, v. t.

A movable, decorative member in metal, carved wood, or, commonly, in rich stuff or in embroidery, covering the front of the altar. Frontals are usually changed according to the different ceremonies.

A spout projecting from the roof gutter of a building, often carved grotesquely. [Written also gargle, gargyle, and gurgoyle.]

A mask carved in imitation of a Gorgon's head. Elmes.

To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave. Thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel. Ex. xxviii. 9.

Carved. Graven image, an idol; an object of worship carved from wood, stone, etc. "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image." Ex. xx. 4.