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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