单词 | burin |
释义 | burinn. 1. a. A graver; the tool used by an engraver on copper; also attributive. ΘΚΠ 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 1662 J. Evelyn Sculptura i. 53 [The utmost efforts and excellency of the Bolino]. 1662 J. Evelyn Sculptura i. 9 Whither wrought with the Burin..or, with Aqua Fortis. 1674 Govt. Tongue vii. §2. 140 Like the gravers burine upon copper. 1765 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 2) III. iv. 131 Several of his own designs,..were afterwards retouched with the burin by his disciple. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. x. vi. 651 The Text itself engraved; all by the exquisite burin of Pine. 1880 Hamerton in Daily News 13 Apr. 3/6 Painters of the present day consider etchings at least equal to burin engravings..a burin engraver can only plod patiently to a foreseen result. b. The style or manner of using the graver. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > [noun] > engraving tools > style of using stroke1662 burin1824 1824 T. F. Dibdin Libr. Compan. 507 'Tis a fine specimen of Loggan's bold burin. 2. A triangular tool used by marble-workers. 3. Archaeology. A flint tool with a point like that of a chisel. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > types of tools generally > prehistoric tool > [noun] > types of flintstonec1400 celt1748 fairy hammer1815 axe1851 flint-flake1851 stone-axe1864 flake-knife1865 scraper1865 thumb-flint1865 tool-stone1865 saddle quern1867 fabricator1872 grattoir1872 hammer-stone1872 tribrach1873 flake1875 hand-axe1878 pick1888 turtle-back1890 racloir1892 eolith1895 pebble chopper1895 palaeotalith1897 tranchet1899 point1901 pygmy flint1907 microlith1908 Gravette1911 keeled scraper1911 lissoir1911 coup de poing1912 end-scraper1915 burin1916 rostro-carinate1919 tortoise core1919 blade1921 axe-adze1925 petit tranchet1926 tournette1927 pebble tool1931 raclette1932 biface1934 cleaver1935 thumbnail scraper1937 microblade1959 linguate1966 1916 H. F. Osborn Men of Old Stone Age iv. 308 The primitive graving-tool, or burin..which we know was designed by the Crô-Magnon artists for their early engravings on stone. 1921 M. C. Burkitt Prehist. iv. 69 Gravers or burins fall into two main groups, the difference being determined by an observation of the working edge. In one variety this is straight like a screw-driver,..the other variety, being curved like a gouge, is known as the gouge type. 1939 W. B. Wright Tools & Man ii. 15 The burin or graver of flint. 1957 Encycl. Brit. II. 239/2 Aurignacian..The tool types include various kinds of steep-ended scrapers,..busked gravers or burins and split-base bone points. Derivatives ˈburinist n. an engraver. ΘΚΠ 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 1796 S. Pegge Anonymiana (1809) 187 We..might not improperly, as we use a tool called a burin, be called Burinators, and the Art, Burining.] a1864 Foreign Q. Rev. No. 1 Many expert burinists. 1882 American 5 124 All the great original burinists did not invent, but reproduced with the burin. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1662 |
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