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A sunken channel or groove, usually vertical. See Triglyph.

Of or pertaining to sculpture or carving of any sort, esp. to glyphs.

A plate made by glyphography, or an impression taken from such a plate.

Of or pertaining to glyphography.

A process similar to etching, in which, by means of voltaic electricity, a raised copy of a drawing is made, so that it can be used to print from.

Any sculptured, chased, or embossed ornament worked in low relief, as a cameo.

Work chased or embossed relief.

Pertaining to the art of chasing or embossing in relief; anaglyptic; -- opposed to diaglyptic or sunk work.

Engraved by a voltaic battary.

An engraver of gems for rings and other ornaments.

The art or process of gem engraving.

An intaglio. Mollett.

Represented or formed by depressions in the general surface; as, diaglyphic sculpture or engraving; -- opposed to anaglyphic.

A projecting face like the triglyph, but having only two channels or grooves sunk in it.

Same as Glyphography.

The half channel or groove in the edge of the triglyph in the Doric order.

sts. It is made up of three, or, as some say, four classes of characters: first, the hieroglyphic proper, or figurative, in which the representation of the object conveys the idea of the object itself; second, the ideographic, consisting of symbols representing ideas, not sounds, as an ostrich feather is a symbol of tr…

Emblematic; expressive of some meaning by characters, pictures, or figures; as, hieroglyphic writing; a hieroglyphic obelisk. Pages no better than blanks to common minds, to his, hieroglyphical of wisest secrets. Prof. Wilson.

In hieroglyphics.

One versed in hieroglyphics. Gliddon.