Line Engraving

Definition: Line Engraving

Line Engraving

Noun

1. A print obtained from a line drawing.

2. Engraving consisting of a block that has been etched or engraved.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Line Engraving

Engraving

Noun: engraving, chalcography; line engraving, mezzotint engraving, stipple engraving, chalk engraving; dry point, bur; etching, aquatinta; chiseling; plate engraving, copperplate engraving, steel engraving, wood engraving; xylography, lignography, glyptography, cerography, lithography, chromolithography, photolithography, zincography, glyphography, xylograph, lignograph, glyptograph, cerograph, lithograph, chromolithograph, photolithograph, zincograph, glyphograph, holograph.

Crosswords: Line Engraving

Hand-tinted copy of a line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 1863, depicting the ship on the building ways at the J.S. Underhill shipyard, New York City, at about the time of her 6 December 1862 launching. Credit: NAVY.

Contemporary line engraving, after a sketch by Adam Rohe, depicting the ship's destruction in accidental fire on 22 April 1865, above Cairo, Illinois. Credit: NAVY.

Line engraving after a drawing by Homer, published in "Harper's Weekly", Volume VII, January-June 1863, page 268, depicting an anxious scene aboard a merchant ship as the Confederate cruiser Alabama comes up. This may represent the capture of the California mail steamer Ariel off Cuba on 7 December 1862, as there were many ladies among the prize ship's passengers. Credit: NAVY.

Civil War era line engraving, published in the "Soldier in our Civil War", Volume I., page 245. Credit: NAVY.

19th Century line engraving after a photograph by Black & Batchelder. Lt. Smith was killed while serving as acting commander of USS Congress on 8 March 1862, when she was lost in combat with CSS Virginia. Credit: NAVY.

Late 19th Century line engraving by "Tab". He commanded CSS Tennessee during the Battle of Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864. Credit: NAVY.

Painting depicting the Confederate cruiser in the Arctic ice, circa June 1865. This image has been credited to the "Illustrated London News", though it appears to be a painting on canvas and not a line engraving. Credit: NAVY.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Bulgarian 

щрихова гравюра. (various references)

Hungarian

rézmetszés (chalcography, dry point). (various references)

Manx

grainney linnagh. (various references)

Pig Latin

inelay engravingay

Russian 

штриховая гравюра (line-engraving). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

graviranje (engraving). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: engrailing, engraining, enlivening, leveraging, realigning.

-4 letters: engraving, enlarging, graveling, greenling, innerving, inveigler, laveering, leavening, lingering, regaining, relieving, renailing, revealing, revenging.

-5 letters: aggrieve, agreeing, algerine, aliening, aligning, angeling, angering, anviling, arginine, avenging, engining, enraging, gainlier, ganglier, gangrene, gaveling, gingivae, gingival, glairing, gleaning, gnarling, graining, greening, grieving, grinning, inveigle, lagering, learning, levering, lingerie, livening, raveling.

+4 letters: governmentalizing.