engraulis

[Gr. enggraulis =the anchovy.] Ichthy.: A genus of fishes, family Clupeidse. Snout projecting; mouth opening backward considerably beyond the eyes; mystache long and straight; twelve or more rays within the gill covers; the opening wide; abdominal line without projecting hooked scales. Engraulis encrasicholus is the unchovy (q. v.). ( Couch, .) ěn-grā've (1), *en-grav-en, v . t . & i. [Pref. en , and Eng. grave , v. (q. v.) O. Fr. engraver; Dut. praven to dig; graveren to engrave; Ger. graben =to dig, engrave, cut, carve.] A. Transitive: I. Literally 1. To cut with a chisel or graver; to cut figures, letters, ., with a sharp instrument. "Engrave the two stones with the names."- Exodus Exviii. 11. 2. To cut, picture, or represent, as on wood, netal, ., by carving with a graver, . "On the other side was engraven the cro and the tarp."- Ludlow : Memoirs , ii. 247. *3. To cut in, to make by incision. "Full many wounds in his corrupted flesh He did engrave." Spenser: F. Q., III. vii. 32. *4. To impre deeply, to imprint. "It will scarce seem po ible, that God should engrave principles, in men's minds, in words of uncertain sign if i cation."-Locke. B. In trans.: To practice or follow the art of en graving; to be skilled in engraving. For the difference between to engrave and to imprint , see IMPRINT. *ěn-grā ve (2), v. v. t. [Pref. en , and Eng. grave , s. (q. v.) To bury, to inter, to place in a grave.