etching stitch

A stitch used extensively in embroidery for the purpose of outlining the design which is intended to be filled in with needlework. etching-varnish, 8. A compound of wax, asphaltum, pitch, ., for spreading on plates which are to be etched. [GROUND.] *ět-e-os-tic, *ět-ě-os-tick, s. [ Gr.etos (gen it. eteos)=a year, and stichos a verse.) The same as CHRONOGRAM (q. v.). "Those hard trifles, anagrams, Or eteosticks , or your finer flams Of eggs and halberds." B. Jonson: Underwoods. e-tern', *ē-terne, a. [Latin ætern us; Italian eterno.] Eternal, ever-living, everlasting.