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

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.

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

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.

Of or pertaining to the art of cutting and engraving precious stones.

Of or pertaining to petroglyphy.

taining to the art of engraving by the action of light. [Written also photoglyptic.] Photoglyphic engraving, a process of etching on copper, steel, or zinc, by means of the action of light and certain chemicals, so that from the plate impressions may be taken. Sir D. Brewster.

Relating to phytoglyphy.

Consisting of, or pertaining to, triglyphs.

Pertaining to a rude kind of hieroglyphics, in which a thing is represented by its picture instead of by a symbol.

The science or study of Egyptian antiquities, esp. the hieroglyphics.

n characters employed by the common people of ancient Egypt, in distinction from the hieroglyphics. See Demotic.

priests. Hieratic character, a mode of ancient Egyptian writing; a modified form of hieroglyphics, tending toward a cursive hand and formerly supposed to be the sacerdotal character, as the demotic was supposed to be that of the people. It was a false notion of the Greeks that of the three kinds of writing used by the…

One versed in hieroglyphics. Gliddon.

A writer of hierograms; also, one skilled in hieroglyphics. Greenhill.

found in Guiana; -- so called from black spots in it which bear some resemblance to hieroglyphics; also called snakewood, and leopardwood. It is much used for bows and for walking sticks.