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Definition of Etches
1. etch [v] - See also: etch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Etches
Literary usage of Etches
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1860)
"When completed, the rollers are placed in dilute acid, which etches into the
copper where the paint has been removed, and thus accomplishes the engraving. ..."
2. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art. by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1867)
"When com. pleted, the rollers are placed in dilute acid, which etches into the
copper where the paint has been removed, and thus accomplishes the engraving. ..."
3. Reports of Cases Adjudged in the High Court of Chancery: Before Sir William by Great Britain Court of Chancery, William Page Wood Hatherley (1864)
"etches.—No. 2. J_N this case (reported ante, p. 558), the record had been ordered
to be amended by making Mrs. Smith sue by a next friend. ..."
4. The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English by Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver August Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1900)
"... of the second part, and one etches, of the third part, reciting the indentures
of 1807 and 1808, and Michael Williams's will, and that Gordon was dead, ..."
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