glyphn.
/ɡlɪf/, U.S. /ɡlɪf/ 1. A sculptured mark or symbol. rare. (Cf. hieroglyph n.)
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > incising or intaglio > [noun] > incised work
intagliature1599
engraving1611
sculpture1616
intaglioc1660
glyphic1716
glyph1825
lithoglyph1842
1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 252 They were originally symbolical Glyphs or Sculptures, and afterwards translated into words.
1861 G. Moore Lost Tribes 196 The sacred law is named ‘Tára’, and..is represented by ten upright glyphs, rolls or pillars.
1895 W. J. Hoffman Beginnings of Writing ii. 19 The glyphs, made in intaglio, relievo, and intaglio-relievo, were divided into two classes, pure and linear.
2. Architecture. A groove or channel, usually vertical, used as an ornament, esp. in the Doric frieze. Cf. triglyph n.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > column > [noun] > entablature > parts of Doric entablature
edge1563
femur1563
gutta1563
metope1563
modillion1563
mutule1563
regula1563
subtenia1563
taenia1563
triglyph1563
demi-metope1703
semi-metope1703
diglyph1728
glyph1775
shank1823
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Glyphe, or Glyphis, in Architecture, a general Name for any Cavity, or Canal, whether round, or terminating in an Angle; us'd as an Ornament, in any Part.]
1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Glyph.
1818 in H. J. Todd Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang.
1837 Penny Cycl. VII. 281/2 The triglyphs..are upright, slightly projecting tablets..channelled with two grooves or glyphs (γλυϕαί), and with a half groove chamfering off each of its outer edges.
1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. i. ii. 58 In the Doric order, the ends of these joists were called triglyphs, from their being sculptured with two whole and two half glyphs or channels.
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