wood engraver

An artist who engraves on wood. Bot .: Luzula sylvatic a . wood-boring, adj . Capable of boring through vantage over engravings on copper and steel that wood. Wood - boring shrimp. Zool.: Chelura terebrans . the illustrations and letter-pre can be set up and printed together. The blocks on which the engravings are made are prepared from boxwood for all Spenser: F. Q. , I. vi. 16. "The wood - borne people fall before her flat." wood-bound, a. Encumbered with tall, woody hedgerows. wood-brick, s . [WOODEN-BRICK.] wood-butterfly, s . Entom.: The genus Lasiommata (q. v.). wood-carpet, s. 1. Ord . Lang .: A floor-covering made of slats, or more ornamental shapes, glued or cemented upon a cloth backing. 2. Entom .: A Geometer Moth, Melanippe rivata. Fore wings gray, with a broad dark gray central band. The caterpillar feeds on Galium mollugo . wood-carving, s. 1. The art or proce of carving wood into orna mental figures or of decorating wood by carving IMG:content-0996.png:[blocks in formation] "He (Plot) writes ( Nat . Hist . Oxfordsh ., 175) of bird 'sometimes seen, but oftener heard in the Park at Wood stock, from the noise that it makes commonly called the Wood-cracker: described to me (for I had not the happine to see it) to be about the bigne of a sparrow, with a blue back and a reddish breast, a wide mouth, and a long bill, which it puts into a crack or splinter of a rotten bough of a tree, and makes a noise as if it were wood for larger work. A very fine surface is given to the block upon which the subject to be engraved is drawn or photographed. The work is executed by gravers of various shapes, the principle of the art being that the lines intended to appear when printed are left standing, all the white parts being cut away. In steel and copper-plate engraving the principle is reversed, the lines intended to appear being cut into the plate.