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Definition of Chiseled
1. Adjective. Having a clean and distinct outline as if precisely cut along the edges. "Well-defined features"
Definition of Chiseled
1. Verb. (American English) (past of chisel) ¹
2. Adjective. (American English) (of a face) having strongly defined facial features. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chiseled
1. chisel [v] - See also: chisel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chiseled
Literary usage of Chiseled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Areas of the United States, the States, and the Territories by Henry Gannett (1906)
"Ill Durbin, iron bridge over Crabapple Creek, on abutment; chiseled square 896.
42 Durbin, 1.2 miles south of, at forks of road, near S. Lyon's residence, ..."
2. Results of Primary Triangulation and Primary Traverse: Fiscal Year 1904-05 by Samuel Stinson Gannett (1905)
"Smiles west of; north side of road, under oak tree, rock,'chiseled mark ...
on southeast bridge seat, chiseled mark 863.50 Mahoning, 4 miles east of; ..."
3. The Ancient Lowly: A History of the Ancient Working People from the Earliest by Cyrenus Osborne Ward (1900)
"... Belief That Ancient Forefathers possessed no Knowledge of Musical Notes—Discovery
at Delphi in 1895—Wonderful Musical Find chiseled on Pronaos of Temple ..."
4. Barbizon Days: Millet, Corot, Rousseau, Barye by Charles Sprague Smith (1902)
"The master, girt with his apron of worker in bronze, modeled, retouched the
plaster, chiseled, inserted parts in the vice, examining them under all aspects ..."
5. A Soldier of France to His Mother: Letters from the Trenches on the Western by Eugène Emmanuel Lemercier (1917)
"... but the charm of its jagged outline continues all the same; and then it is so
prettily ensconced between those two finely chiseled hills. ..."
6. Genealogical and Memorial Encyclopedia of the State of Maryland: A Record of by Richard Henry Spencer, American Historical Society (1919)
"His State included him in the group of her distinguished sons of the legal
profession, which is to be chiseled in the frieze of the Supreme Court Room of ..."
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