Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A steel cutting tool with a sharp beveled point, used in engraving or carving stone.
- noun A stone tool with a chisellike head.
- noun The style or technique of an engraver's work.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An engravers' tool of tempered steel, with a lozenge-shaped point, fixed in a handle the end of which, held in the hand, is rounded at the top; a graver.
- noun The manner or style of execution of an engraver: as, a soft burin; a brilliant burin.
- noun A steel graver used by marble-workers. Also spelled
burine .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The cutting tool of an engraver on metal, used in line engraving. It is made of tempered steel, one end being ground off obliquely so as to produce a sharp point, and the other end inserted in a handle; a graver; also, the similarly shaped tool used by workers in marble.
- noun The manner or style of execution of an engraver.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
chisel with asharp point , used forengraving ; agraver . - noun A
prehistoric flint tool .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a chisel of tempered steel with a sharp point; used for engraving
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[French, probably from obsolete Italian burino, of Germanic origin.]
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From French
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jaime_d commented on the word burin
"This incision in his olfactory tract producing a naso-dilation, Cochin profits from it by quickly scarifying Vowl's partition with a surgical pin, scraping it with a burin. . ." Gilbert Adair translation of Georges Perec's La Disparition
August 11, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word burin
I like this definition from the Century: "The manner or style of execution of an engraver: as, a soft burin; a brilliant burin."
March 14, 2016