Word Meanings - INSCULPTURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An engraving, carving, or inscription. On his gravestone this insculpture. Shak.

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• CARVOL
  One of a species of aromatic oils, resembling carvacrol.
• INSCRIPTION
  A line of division or intersection; as, the tendinous inscriptions, or intersections, of a muscle. 4. An address, consignment, or informal dedication, as of a book to a person, as a mark of respect or an invitation of patronage. (more info) 1.
• INSCULPTURED
  Engraved. Glover.
• ENGRAVING
  1. The act or art of producing upon hard material incised or raised patterns, characters, lines, and the like; especially, the art of producing such lines, etc., in the surface of metal plates or blocks of wood. Engraving is used for the decoration
• CARVE
  1. To cut. Or they will carven the shepherd's throat. Spenser. 2. To cut, as wood, stone, or other material, in an artistic or decorative manner; to sculpture; to engrave. Carved with figures strange and sweet. Coleridge. 3. To make or shape by
• ENGRAVEMENT
  1. Engraving. 2. Engraved work. Barrow.
• CARVEN
  Wrought by carving; ornamented by carvings; carved. A carven bowl well wrought of beechen tree. Bp. Hall. The carven cedarn doors. Tennyson. A screen of carven ivory. Mrs. Browning.
• CARVEL
  1. Same as Caravel. 2. A species of jellyfish; sea blubber. Sir T. Herbert.
• GRAVESTONE
  A stone laid over, or erected near, a grave, usually with an inscription, to preserve the memory of the dead; a tombstone.
• ENGRAVED
  Having the surface covered with irregular, impressed lines. (more info) 1. Made by engraving or ornamented with engraving.
• CARVELBUILT
  Having the planks meet flush at the seams, instead of lapping as in a clinker-built vessel.
• ENGRAVER
  One who engraves; a person whose business it is to produce engraved work, especially on metal or wood.
• CARVACROL
  A thick oily liquid, C10H13.OH, of a strong taste and disagreeable odor, obtained from oil of caraway .
• INSCULPTURE
  An engraving, carving, or inscription. On his gravestone this insculpture. Shak.
• ENGRAVERY
  The trade or work of an engraver. Sir T. Browne.
• CARVIST
  A hawk which is of proper age and training to be carried on the hand; a hawk in its first year. Booth.
• CARVENE
  An oily substance, C10H16, extracted from oil caraway.
• CARVER
  1. One who carves; one who shapes or fashions by carving, or as by carving; esp. one who carves decorative forms, architectural adornments, etc. "The carver's chisel." Dodsley. The carver of his fortunes. Sharp 2. One who carves or divides meat
• ENGRAVE
  To deposit in the grave; to bury. "Their corses to engrave." Spenser.
• CARVING
  1. The act or art of one who carves. 2. A piece of decorative work cut in stone, wood, or other material. "Carving in wood." Sir W. Temple. 3. The whole body of decorative sculpture of any kind or epoch, or in any material; as, the Italian carving
• ELECTRO-ENGRAVING
  The art or process of engraving by means of electricity.
• PHOTO-ENGRAVING
  The process of obtaining an etched or engraved plate from the photographic image, to be used in printing; also, a picture produced by such a process.
• PHOTO-ENGRAVE
  To engrave by a photomechanical process; to make a photo- engraving of. -- Pho`to-en*grav"er , n.
• FORCARVE
  To cut completely; to cut off. Chaucer.