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ENGRAVING, the process or result of the action implied by' the verb " to engrave " or mark by incision, the marks (whether for inscriptive, pictorial or decorative purposes) being produced, not by simply staining or discolouring the material (as with paint , p ...

ENGROSSING, a term used in two legal senses: (i) the writing or copying of a legal or other document in a fair large hand (en gros), and (2) the buying up of goods wholesale in order to sell at a higher price so as to establish a monopoly. The word " engross "

... als of that region were preserved in the ark. " The first edition also gives an engraving of the ark (repeated in the editions up to the fifth), in shape like a long roofed box, floating on the waters; the animals are seen in separate stalls. By the time of th ...

... icily and Naples. Armillary spheres occur in many old sculptures, paintings and engravings; and from these sources we know that they were made for suspension, for resting on the ground or on a table, for holding by a short handle, or either for holding or for ...

... ly of French artists and engravers. The first who devoted himself to the art of engraving was Claude Audran, born 1 597, and the last was Benoit, Claude's great-grandson, who died in 1772. The two most distinguished members of the family are G6rard and Jean. G ...

... &c. Augsburg is also the centre of the acetylene gas industry of Germany. Copperengraving, for which it was formerly noted, is no longer carried on; but printing, lithography and publishing have acquired a considerable development, one of the best-known Contin ...

... |«'ir..lrutii |.I-M|IH i. the manufacture of tuition*: punting, lithographing, engraving, and map-making, especially in Vienna, Ac. In louo the various manul.u turini; industries rm|>l»\r<1 in Austria ,i.8oo penon*. of whom 2,264,871 were workmen and 103,854 ...

... re substituted for the ordinary arcade with polumns. The effect as shown in the engravings and photogravures is so fine that it is strange that the scheme was never adopted in the earlier Romanesque churches of Europe. The two more important examples are at Ka ...

... me of anvpa or cr/iipis, which is defined by Dioscorides as a stone used in gem-engraving. The Hebrew word shamir (related to the Egyptian asmir), where translated in our versions of the Old Testament " adamant " and " diamond," probably signified the emery-st ...

ETCHING (Dutch, etsen, to eat), a form of engraving (q.v.) in which, in contradistinction to line engraving (q.v.), where the furrow is produced by the ploughing of the burin, the copper is eaten away or corroded by acid. To prepare a plate for etching it is f ...

... and was born at Lyons in 1640. He was taught the first principles of design and engraving by his father; and, following the example of his brother, went to Paris to perfect himself in his art. He there, in 1666, engraved for Le Brun " Constantino's Battle with ...

... Syria, certainly under the XVIIIth Dynasty, and again under the XXVIth for the engraving of Egyptian inscriptions; but in the earlier period the cuneiform syllabary, and in the later the " Phoenician alphabet, had obtained a firm hold there, and we may be sur ...

... eatres of London is given by Wilkinson, Londina illustrata (1819), in which are engravings of some of them. See also Collier, Hist, of Dramatic Poetry (1879); Halliwell-Phillipps, Life of Shakespeare (1883); R. Lowe, Life of T. Betterton; Malone, . History of ...

... has two important yearly fairs. Its artisans are famous for their jewelry, for engraving upon silver and the fabrication of boxes with secret locks.