v. t. [ imp. Engraved p. p. Engraved or Engraven p. pr. & vb. n. Engraving. ] [ Pref. en- + grave to carve: cf. OF. engraver. ] 1. To cut in; to make by incision. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Full many wounds in his corrupted flesh
He did engrave. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cut with a graving instrument in order to form an inscription or pictorial representation; to carve figures; to mark with incisions. [ 1913 Webster ]

Like . . . . a signet thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel. Ex. xxviii. 11. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To form or represent by means of incisions upon wood, stone, metal, or the like; as, to engrave an inscription. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To impress deeply; to infix, as if with a graver. [ 1913 Webster ]

Engrave principles in men's minds. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. en- + grave a tomb. Cf. Engrave to carve. ] To deposit in the grave; to bury. [ Obs. ] “Their corses to engrave.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Made by engraving or ornamented with engraving. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zoöl.) Having the surface covered with irregular, impressed lines. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Engraving. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Engraved work. [ R. ] Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who engraves; a person whose business it is to produce engraved work, especially on metal or wood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The trade or work of an engraver. [ R. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act or art of producing upon hard material incised or raised patterns, characters, lines, and the like; especially, the art of producing such lines, etc., in the surface of metal plates or blocks of wood. Engraving is used for the decoration of the surface itself; also, for producing an original, from which a pattern or design may be printed on paper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is engraved; an engraved plate. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An impression from an engraved plate, block of wood, or other material; a print. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Engraving on wood is called xylography; on copper, chalcography; on stone lithography. Engravings or prints take from wood blocks are usually called wood cuts, those from stone, lithographs. [ 1913 Webster ]