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id with patines of bright gold. Shak. But these things are . . . borrowed by the monks to inlay their story. Milton.

One who inlays, or whose occupation it is to inlay.

A plane used for cutting out grooves and inlaying strings and bands in straight and circular work.

To arrange; to place; to inlay. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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

ar marking or "water" produced in the process of manufacture, or with designs produced by inlaying or incrusting with another metal, as silver or gold, or by etching, etc., to damask. Damaskeening is is partly mosaic work, partly engraving, and partly carving. Ure.

Inlay; inlaid or mosaic work; something ornamental inserted in a surface. [Obs.] Milton.

e, as of metal or pottery, and admitting of after decoration in color, or used itself for inlaying or application in varied colors.

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To inlay into, as a piece of carving or other ornamental object.

A covering or inlaying of marble, mosaic, etc., attached to the masonry by cramp irons or cement.

of Inlay.

Ornamental work produced by inlaying steel with gold, -- a variety of damascening much used in the arts of India.

A surface decoration made by inlaying in patterns small pieces of variously colored glass, stone, or other material; -- called also mosaic work.

A species of joinery or cabinet-work consisting of an inlay of geometric or other patterns, generally of different colors, -- used especially for floors.

Hard and fine stones in general, such as are used for inlay and the like, as distinguished from the softer stones used in building; thus, a Florentine mosaic is a familiar instance of work in pietra dura, though the ground may be soft marble.

Ornamental work, mostly carved in olivewood, decorated with inlay, made at or near Sorrento, Italy. Hence, more rarely, jig-saw work and the like done anywhere.

To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay. [Obs.] Spenser.

metimes architectural scenes, landscapes, fruits, flowers, and the like, were produced by inlaying pieces of wood of different colors and shades into panels usually of walnut wood.

lates of several species of sea turtles, especially of the hawkbill turtle. It is used in inlaying and in the manufacture of various ornamental articles. -- Tortoise-shell butterfly (Zoöl.), any one of several species of handsomely colored butterflies of the genus Aglais, as A. Milberti, and A. urticæ, both of which,…