| Pronunciation: | | ungr'eyvur
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| Matching Terms: | | engrave, engraved, engravement, engravery
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- [n] a printmaker who prints from an engraved printing plate
- [n] a skilled worker who can inscribe designs or writing onto a surface by carving or etching
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| | See Also: | | Albrecht Durer, Andrea Mantegna, Durer, graphic artist, Hans Holbein, Hogarth, Holbein, Holbein the Younger, lapidary, lapidist, Mantegna, printmaker, skilled worker, trained worker, William Hogarth |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \En*grav"er\, n.
One who engraves; a person whose business it is to produce
engraved work, especially on metal or wood.
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| Easton Bible Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Heb. harash (Ex. 35:35; 38:23) means properly an artificer in wood, stone, or metal. The chief business of the engraver was cutting names or devices on rings and seals and signets (Ex. 28:11, 21, 36; Gen. 38:18). |
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| | Related Terms: | | accountant, amanuensis, archivist, bookkeeper, burinist, carver, cerographer, chalcographer, clerk, documentalist, etcher, filing clerk, gem engraver, graphic artist, graver, inscriber, lapidary, librarian, line engraver, lithographer, marker, notary, notary public, printmaker, prothonotary, pyrographer, record clerk, recorder, recordist, register, registrar, scorekeeper, scorer, scribe, scrivener, secretary, serigrapher, silk-screen artist, stenographer, stonecutter, timekeeper, wood engraver, xylopyrographer |
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