thus obtained is traced through the ground with a Enjoyer

One who enjoys. needle. A rim is then raised round the edge of the plate with what is called "banking-wax," and a solution of nitric acid and water is poured into the hollow thus formed. When this has remained on the plate a suffi- cient time to bite in the outline, or the lighter parts of the engraving if it be a landscape or figures, the acid is poured off, and the parts which are dark enough are covered with a kind of varnish called "stopping-ground," which resists the corrosion of the acid, and prevents it from acting on the plate in the parts thus covered. The plate is then again subjected to the action of the acid, and the proce of applying the stopping-ground to those parts which are sufficiently dark, and the acid to those Enlace'ment, n. The act of unlacing. Enjoy'ment, n. [Fr. enjouement.] State of enjoying anything, or of pleasurable sensation; pleasure; grat i- fication; satisfaction in the po e ion of what is good or desirable; fruition; happine . which are not dark enough, is continued until all the requisite gradations of light and shade have been obtained. The plate is afterwards finished with the graver. In line-engravings, the greater part of the work is done by the burin, a skilful engraver being able to produce a vivid representation by a judicious combination of lines and dots. See also ENGRAVING in SECTION II. Engro ', v . a . [ En , and Fr. gro ir , to enlarge, to make greater or thicker; from gros , big. See GROSS.] To seize in the gro ; to take the whole of; to swallow up; to absorb; to occupy; to engage; to buy up in large quantities, in order to make a demand, and sell again at a higher price; to forestall. -To copy in a large hand; to write a fair, correct copy, in large or distinct legible characters. -To take or a ume in undue quantities or degrees. Engro ed', p . a . Seized in the gro ; taken in the whole; absorbed; purchased in large quantities for sale. -Written in large fair characters. Engro 'er, n. One who engro es. Engro 'ing, n. Act of engro ing; the buying up of large quantities of a commodity in order to raise the price. The copying of a writing in fair and legible characters. Engro 'ment, n. Act of engro ing; act of taking the whole; the appropriation of things in the gro or in exorbitant quantities; exorbitant acquisition. -A copy of a written instrument in a large fair hand. Enker'nel, v . a . To form into kernels. Enkhui's en, a fortified town and seaport of the Netherlands, prov. N. Holland, on the W. shore of the Zuider Zee, 30 m. N.E. of Amsterdam; pop . 6,213. Enkin'dle, v. a. [ En , and kindle , q. v.] To kindle; to set on fire; to inflame; to excite; to rouse into action.