Results for engrave

Definitions of engrave:

part of speech: noun

Engraver.

part of speech: verb

To cut figures or letters on metals, rare stones, or pebbles, wood, & c.; to imprint or impress deeply, as on the memory.

part of speech: verb transitive

To cut or carve in sunken patterns; impress deeply.

part of speech: verb transitive

To cut out with a graver a representation of anything on wood, steel, etc.: to imprint: to impress deeply.

Usage examples for engrave:

• In the person of the king he took their statues prisoners, and shut them up in his sanctuary; sometimes he would engrave his name upon their figures and send them back to their respective temples, where the sight of them would remind their worshippers of his own omnipotence. "History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 6 (of 12)", G. Maspero

• Clairon's acting, 299; commissions Gravelot to engrave a design in honour of Mlle. "Queens of the French Stage", H. Noel Williams

• High shall the Future their names engrave For these are lives that are not spent in vain, Though their reward be a tomb 'neath the wave. "The Grey Cloak", Harold MacGrath