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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 ...

SWETCHINE, MADAME (1782-1857), Russian mystic, whose maiden name was Soymanof, was born in Moscow, and under the influence of Joseph de Maistre became a member of the Roman Catholic Church in 1815. In the following year she settled in Paris where, until her de

... tures may exist in corals: — Dissepiments are oblique calcareous partitions, stretching from septum to septum, and closing the interseptal chambers below. The whole system of dissepiments in any given calicle is often called endotheca. Synapticulae are calcare ...

AQUATINT (Lat. aqua, water, and lincla, dyed), a kind of etching (q.v.) which imitates washes with a brush. There are many ways of preparing a plate for aquatint, the following being recommended by P. G. Hamerton. Have three different solutions of rosin in rec ...

... soft phyllites in the upper part, which cover a belt from 3 to 6 m. across, stretching from Glen Shira by Inveraray and Ardrishaig to south Knapdale. Next in order come the Easdale slates, phyllites with thin dark limestone, the main limestone of Loch Awe and ...

... are thoae which appear not to pleasing to the eye at first sight. In these the etching constitute* a great part; and he has finished them in a bold, rough style. The " Rape of the Sabines," after Poussin, is considered his masterpiece.

... re many fine winter homes here of wealthy Northerners. There are good roads, stretching from Augusta for miles in almost every direction. In North Augusta there is a large hotel, and there is another in Summerville (pop. in 1910, 4361), 2^ m. N.W., an attracti ...

... rict to the east of Babylonia, lying between the Oroatis and the Tigris, and stretching from India to the Persian Gulf. Along with this mountainous district went a fertile low tract of country on the western side, which also included the marshes at the mouths ...

... (11,091). The northern portion of Emilia is entirely formed by a great plain stretching from the Via Aemilia to the Po; its highest point is not more than 200 ft. above sea-level, while along the E. coast are the lagoons at the mouth of the Po and those called ...

... tal plates (see LINEENGRAVING), or by the corrosion of the lines with acid (see ETCHING), or by the roughening of a metal surface without actual lines (see MEZZOTINT), or by cutting a wood surface away so as to leave lines in relief (see WOOD-ENGRAVING); the r ...

... ed to Limoges in 1546, and became archbishop of Toulouse in 1550. 8 04 ETAPLES— ETCHING metal-founding, leather-dressing, printing and the manufacture of boots and shoes and hosiery are carried on; there are quarries of paving-stone, nurseries and market garde ...

... an area of 1691 sq. m. It forms a purely artificial administrative division, stretching across the level plain of the Doab, and beyond the valley of the Jumna, to the gorges of the Chambal, and the last rocky outliers of the Vindhyan range. The district exhibi ...

... mes, by a continent, the existence of which is evidenced by a submarine bank stretching from Scotland through the Faeroes and Iceland to Greenland, and on the other side by continuous land at what is now the Behring Straits. Acclimatization has been urged as a ...

... on." There is a similar passage in the 36th fragment (ed. Harvey ii. p. 500), sketching the rite and calling the elements antitypes: " The oblation of the Eucharist is not fleshly, but spiritual and so pure. For we offer to God the bread and the cup of blessin ...

... highlands is that which extends from the Iberian peninsula to the Black Sea stretching in the middle of Germany northwards to about 52" N. In the Iberian peninsula we have the most marked example of the tableland form in Europe, and these tablelands are bound ...

... s are very similar in appearance to crystals of common salt, they are proved by etching experiments to possess a different degree of symmetry, namely plagihedral-cubic, there being no planes of symmetry but the full number of axes of symmetry. Crystals are col ...

... RAI (i.e. " moist land "), the name of the submontane strip of marshy jungle stretching beneath the lower ranges of the Himalaya in northern India. This strip may be said to extend roughly from the Jumna river on the west to the Brahmaputra on the east, though ...

... nd and the mainland. The shortest distance between the two places is 4 m. By stretching on the island and mainland parallel wire circuits earthed at each end, good telephonic communication over an average distance of 6j m. was established between these indepen ...

... g to him; on the reverse they show the king seated on the throne, with Tyche stretching out a palm branch towards him. He was soon expelled again, and brought a son of Phraates into Spain to Augustus. Augustus gave the boy back to his father, but declined to s ...

... st. Between the two mountain systems extends a great central area of plains, stretching from the Gulf of Mexico northward, far beyond the national boundary, to the Arctic Ocean. The rivers that drain the Atlantic slope of the Appalachians are comparatively sho ...

... defined as " upper " and " lower " with reference to the great Kerns forest (stretching between Stans and Kerns), and hence is derived the historically inaccurate name of " Forest cantons," now so well known. The total area of the canton is 295-4 sq. m. (Obwal ...

... hed classical subjects, with architecture and figures. He published a series of etchings of " Boats and other Craft on the River Thames," and during his life as an artist he continued deeply interested n scientific pursuits. For his improvements in the camera ...