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▪ I. inlay, v.|ɪnˈleɪ|
[f. in-1 + lay v.]
†1. trans. To lay in, or as in, a place of concealment or preservation. Obs. rare—1.
a1631Donne Elegies vii, From the worlds Common having sever'd thee, Inlaid thee, neither to be seen, nor see.
2. To lay or embed (a thing) in the substance of something else so that its surface becomes even or continuous with that of the matrix.
1598Florio, Inframettere, to inlay or worke in among other things. 1631Weever Anc. Fun. Mon. 18 Inscriptions and Epitaphs, cut, writ, inlaid, or engrauen vpon the Sepulchres. 1793Smeaton Edystone L. §80 The moorstone courses, inlaid into the frame of the building. 1851Willmott Pleas. Lit. xxi. (1857) 137 Horace Walpole's correspondence inlays his own mind in mosaic. 1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Jrnls. II. 75 Other monumental slabs were inlaid with the pavement itself. 1887Bowen Virg. æneid i. 167 Facing the deep is a cave inlaid in a precipice.
b. To insert a page of a book, a plate, or a cut, in a space cut in a larger and stouter page, for its preservation, or to enlarge the margin, and thus the whole size.
1810W. Laing (Bookseller, Edin.) Catalogue No. 2722 (Compl. Scot.), The leaves are inlaid, and completed from the new edition. 1872J. A. H. Murray Compl. Scot. Introd. 19 The leaves being cut out and ‘inlaid’ in a large quarto of the size of the large-paper copies of Leyden's reprint. 1892S. Lee in Dict. Nat. Biog. XXIX. 35/2 Book-collectors..employed him [Ireland] to ‘inlay’ illustrated books.
3. To furnish or fit (a thing) with a substance of a different kind embedded in its surface; to diversify or ornament (a thing) by such insertion of another material disposed in a decorative pattern or design.
1596Shakes. Merch. V. v. i. 59 Looke how the floore of heauen Is thicke inlayed with pattens of bright gold. 1606Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iv. ii. Magnificence 907 A broad rich Baldrick..In-laid with gold. 1674tr. Scheffer's Lapland 101 The lids are of one board, and for ornament often inlaid with Rain-deers bones. 1758Johnson Idler No. 96 ⁋3 A battle-axe whose handle was inlaid with brass. 1867M. E. Herbert Cradle L. iii. 98 The doors are of tortoise⁓shell, inlaid with mother-of-pearl.
b. fig.
1670Milton Hist. Eng. vi. Wks. (1851) 297 But these things are..thence borrow'd by the Monks to inlay thir story. a1680Butler Rem. (1759) II. 354 His Discourse is inlaid with Oaths. 1813Scott Trierm. iii. Introd. v, The soft greensward is inlaid With varied moss and thyme.
c. absol.
1633B. Jonson Tale Tub v. ii, Tub. How long have you studied ingine? Medlay. Since I first Join'd, or did in-lay in wit.
d. transf. Said of the material embedded; also in ppl. adj., inlaying.
1784Cowper Task i. 170 The stream, That, as with molten glass, inlays the vale. 1836J. W. Bowden in Lyra Apost. (1849) 193 Tear down th' inlaying gold of Solomon.
▪ II. inlay, n.|ˈɪnleɪ, ɪnˈleɪ|
[f. prec. vb.]
1. The process or art of inlaying. rare.
1656Blount Glossogr., Inlay, a term among Joyners, and signifies a laying of coloured wood in Wainscoat-works, Cupboards, &c. 1886Pall Mall G. 26 June 3/1 The inlay of furniture with ivory, and other forms of marquetry.
2. a. Material inlaid or prepared for inlaying; inlaid work.
1697W. Dampier Voy. I. 105 Their Shell..is very thin and clear..'tis used..for inlays, being extraordinary thin. 1725Pope Odyss. xxi. 172 With rich inlay the various floor was graced. 1876T. Hardy Ethelberta (1890) 217 The heavy cupboard doors at the bottom were enriched with inlays of paler wood.
fig.1667Milton P.L. iv. 701 The violet, Crocus, and hyacinth, with rich inlay Broidered the ground. 1830Tennyson Recoll. Arab. Nts. iii, Damask-work, and deep inlay Of braided blooms unmown.
b. Dentistry. A filling of gold, porcelain, or other suitable material which is pre-formed to the required shape and then cemented into a cavity.
1888Dental Cosmos XXX. 542 One of the chief obstacles to success..has been the difficulty of exactly fitting the inlay to the tooth. 1921J. B. Parfitt Operative Dental Surg. xix. 175 An ‘inlay’ is a filling which is constructed outside the patient's mouth and then cemented into place in the tooth cavity. 1963C. R. Cowell et al. Inlays, Crowns, & Bridges ii. 3 Originally gold inlays were prepared by a technique similar to that used for porcelain inlays. 1973Which? Mar. 78/2 Your dentist would not be allowed to fill your mouth with gold inlays when ordinary amalgam fillings would do.
†3. The layering of plants. Obs. rare—1.
1658Sir T. Browne Gard. Cyrus 58 The contrivance of Art, in submersions and Inlays, inverting the extremes of the plant, and fetching the root from the top.
4. Bookbinding. An inner sheet in a gathering.
1877Winter Jones in H. B. Wheatley How to Catalogue (1889) iv. 169 Each sheet after the first in each gathering being called an inlay.
5. The inlaid edge or inturn in a seam.
1899Daily News 6 July 8/3 There is not enough ‘inlay’... Should a ladies' tailor turn out work like that?
6. attrib., as inlay work, inlaid work.
1884Sat. Rev. 14 June 779/2 Some of the inlay work is very fine. 1898Daily News 2 Sept. 5/1 The cheapening of knife handles, billiard balls, inlay work, and pianoforte keys. |