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Made by engraving or ornamented with engraving.

A mystical word used as a charm and engraved on gems among the ancients; also, a gem stone thus engraved.

A composition for blacking shoes, boots, etc.; also, one for taking impressions of engraved work.

mp. Bartlett. -- Block printing. (a) A mode of printing (common in China and Japan) from engraved boards by means of a sheet of paper laid on the linked surface and rubbed with a brush. S. W. Williams. (b) A method of printing cotton cloth and paper hangings with colors, by pressing them upon an engraved surface coate…

A book printed from engraved wooden blocks instead of movable types.

A brass plate engraved with a figure or device. Specifically, one used as a memorial to the dead, and generally having the portrait, coat of arms, etc.

f richly embroidered stuff, a span square, set with twelve precious stones, on which were engraved the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. See Ephod.

That which is engraved. [Obs.] Hakewill.

Having the ground engraved or cut out in the parts to be enameled; inlaid in depressions made in the ground; -- said of a kind of enamel work in which depressions made in the surface are filled with enamel pastes, which are afterward fired; also, designating the process of making such enamel work. --n.…

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.

ire 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.

A plate of polished copper on which a design or writing is engraved.

A gem engraved, or a plate embossed in low relief, for inlaying a vase or other object.

An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving; as, a book illustrated with fine cuts.

s; hence, a pad or other device used by printers, engravers, etc., as for dabbing type or engraved plates with ink.

A roll of cloth for wiping off the face of a copperplate, leaving the ink in the engraved lines.

Engraved work. [R.] Barrow.

One who engraves; a person whose business it is to produce engraved work, especially on metal or wood.

That which is engraved; an engraved plate.