Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The art or process of carving or engraving on precious stones.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The art or process of carving or engraving, particularly of engraving on gems or the like.
- n. A description of the art of gemengraving.
- n. The knowledge of engraved gems.
Wiktionary
- n. art carving or engraving on precious stone
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. rare The art or process of engraving on precious stones.
WordNet 3.0
- n. carvings or engravings (especially on precious stones)
- n. carving or engraving (especially on stones)
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Examples
“Tate Gallery, from Felix Summerley to a Hollyer photograph, from the introduction of glyptography to the pictures in the _Daily Chronicle_, demand notice.”
“Etruscan glyptography has not a transitional period, 140.”
“There is one peculiarity to be noted in the glyptography of the”
“We may therefore divide Etruscan glyptography into:”
“B.C.,) the Dynasty in which lived the Amen-em-hats and the Usertsens, the great early art period of the Egyptian empire, [26] the Egyptians engraved on amethyst, jasper and rock crystal, and at that early period did some of the most beautiful work remaining to us of their glyptography.”
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Geology Words
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my words.
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