ETCHED

engraved, etched, graven, incised, inscribed

(adjective) cut or impressed into a surface; “an incised design”; “engraved invitations”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Adjective

etched

Cut or dug into the surface as by etching.

(of a muscle, body part or person) Toned and with a well-defined musculature.

Verb

etched

simple past tense and past participle of etch

Anagrams

• teched

Source: Wiktionary


ETCH

Etch, n.

Definition: A variant of Eddish. [Obs.] Mortimer.

Etch, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Etched; p. pr. & vb. n. Etching.] Etym: [D. etsen, G. ätzen to feed, corrode, etch. MHG. etzen, causative of ezzen to eat, G. essen Eat.]

1. To produce, as figures or designs, on mental, glass, or the like, by means of lines or strokes eaten in or corroded by means of some strong acid.

Note: The plate is first covered with varnish, or some other ground capable of resisting the acid, and this is then scored or scratched with a needle, or similar instrument, so as to form the drawing; the plate is then covered with acid, which corrodes the metal in the lines thus laid bare.

2. To subject to etching; to draw upon and bite with acid, as a plate of metal. I was etching a plate at the beginning of 1875. Hamerton.

3. To sketch; to delineate. [R.] There are many empty terms to be found in some learned writes, to which they had recourse to etch out their system. Locke.

Etch, v. i.

Definition: To practice etching; to make etchings.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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