etch

UK /ɛt͡ʃ/ US /ɛt͡ʃ/
verb 4noun 1

Definitions

verb

1

To cut into a surface with an acid or other corrosive substance in order to make a pattern. Best known as a technique for creating printing plates, but also used for decoration on metal, and, in modern industry, to make circuit boards.

2

To engrave a surface.

3

To make a lasting impression.

The memory of 9/11 is etched into my mind.

4

To sketch; to delineate.

There are many such empty terms to be found in some learned writers, to which they had recourse to etch out their system.

noun

1

Obsolete form of eddish.

Black Oats are commonly sown upon an Etch Crop, or on a Lay which they plow up in January, when the Earth is moist, taking care to turn the Turf well, and to lay it even and flat.

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