engravern.
/ᵻnˈɡreɪvə/, /ɛnˈɡreɪvə/, /ᵻŋˈɡreɪvə/, /ɛŋˈɡreɪvə/, U.S. /ᵻnˈɡreɪvər/, /ɛnˈɡreɪvər/ 1. One who engraves; one whose business it is to cut devices, figures, or letters in wood, metal, stone, etc. Now often spec. one who engraves pictures on metal or wood from which prints are to be taken.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > incising or intaglio > [noun] > person
graver1398
graveressc1430
engraver1552
entailer1570
lithotomist1714
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > [noun] > engraver
sculptor1634
under-engraver1656
engraver1705
scratcher1736
scraper1763
print cutter1766
block-cutter1859
burinista1864
point-draughtsman1872
cutter1880
print trimmer1892
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Ingrauer.
1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 47 From what paterns doe Painters and Ingrauers take the fashion and forme of those Images and pictures.
1611 Bible (King James) Exod. xxxviii. 23 Aholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver . View more context for this quotation
1666 S. Pepys Diary 26 Mar. (1972) VII. 82 To see the famous ingraver, to get him to grave a seal for the office.
1690 W. Temple Ess. Heroick Virtue iv. 89 in Miscellanea: 2nd Pt. This Odin was..the first Engraver of the Runick Letters or Characters.
1705 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 18 Aug. (1885) I. 30 Cole the Ingraver.
a1779 Bp. W. Warburton Lett. Lit. Property (R.) Could we easily think that a printseller or engraver should be able to obtain that for his baubles?
1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 192 (note) His engraver..undertook to procure a similar stone.
1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. vii. 59 His eyes are like the over-tried eyes of an engraver.
2. An engraving tool, a graver. rare.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > [noun] > engraving tools
pouncer1552
graving tool1591
pounce1598
puncheon1659
burin1662
eschoppe1662
graver1662
needle1662
point1662
style1662
sculpter1680
scalper1688
small chisel1749
roulette1806
engraver1821
dry-point1837
scooper1837
stylet1853
tint-tool1869
diamond-point1874
spit-sticker1909
bull-sticker1933
1821 W. M. Craig Lect. Drawing vii. 371 The implements for this species of art are five or six engravers of various lengths and thicknesses.
Compounds
attributive and in other combinations, as engraver student; engraver beetle n. any beetle of the family Scolytidæ; a bark-beetle.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Curculionoidea or Rhyncophora > family Scolytidae > member of (bark-beetle)
timber-capricorn1803
timber-beetle1841
bark-borer1859
bark-beetle1862
pin borer1890
scolytid1890
timberman1894
engraver beetle1896
ambrosia beetle1897
pinhole borer1916
shot-hole borer1916
1896 Daily News 11 Dec. 8/6 In the first year..the number of students [at the Royal Academy] was 77..and four were engraver students.
1897 J. H. Comstock Insect Life v. 216 These smoothly cut figures are the mines of the engraver-beetle. Many kinds of these engravings can be found, each characteristic of a particular kind of engraver-beetle.
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