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To rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, or painted; to efface; to expunge; to cross out; as, to erase a word or a name.

To plow up; also, to engrave; to write. [Obs.] Blount.

The small space beneath the base line of a subject engraved on a coin or medal. It usually contains the date, place, engraver's name, etc., or other subsidiary matter. Fairholt.

ng process (without etching) copperplates which can be printed from in the same manner as engraved plates.

beetle. -- Gold blocking, printing with gold leaf, as upon a book cover, by means of an engraved block. Knight. -- Gold cloth. See Cloth of gold, under Cloth. -- Gold Coast, a part of the coast of Guinea, in West Africa. -- Gold cradle. (Mining) See Cradle, n., 7. -- Gold diggings, the places, or region, where go…

Written or engraved; formed of letters or lines. The finger of God hath left an inscription upon all his works, not graphical, or composed of letters. Sir T. Browne.

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.

One who graves; an engraver or a sculptor; one whose occupation is te cut letters or figures in stone or other hard material.

The tincture red, indicated in seals and engraved figures of escutcheons by parallel vertical lines. Hence, used poetically for a red color or that which is red. His sev'n-fold targe a field of gules did stain In which two swords he bore; his word, "Divide and reign." P. Fletcher. Follow thy drum; With man's blood pain…

An engraved ornament at the head of a chapter, or of a page.

A hardened, engraved steel punch for impressing a device upon a die, used in coining, etc.

To cut in or into with a sharp instrument; to carve; to engrave. I on thy grave this epitaph incise. T. Carew.

Cut in; carved; engraved.

g from engravings, woodcuts, etc. -- India proof (Engraving), a proof impression from an engraved plate, taken on India paper. -- India rubber. See Caoutchouc. -- India-rubber tree (Bot.), any tree yielding caoutchouc, but especially the East Indian Ficus elastica, often cultivated for its large, shining, elliptical…

To engrave. [R.] "Whose gleaming rind ingrav'n." Tennyson.

To write or engrave; to mark down as something to be read; to imprint. Inscribe a verse on this relenting stone. Pope.

That which is inscribed; something written or engraved; especially, a word or words written or engraved on a solid substance for preservation or public inspection; as, inscriptions on monuments, pillars, coins, medals, etc.

To engrave; to carve; to sculpture. [Obs. & R.] Shak. Which he insculped in two likely stones. Drayton.

Engraved. Glover.

Engraved in intaglio; as, an intagliated stone. T. Warton.