etched's Usage Examples:

They are the broken bases of drinking vessels containing inscriptions, emblems, domestic scenes and portraits etched in gold leaf.

If before this application of the molten glass the metallic leaf, whilst resting on the thin film of blown glass, was etched with a sharp point, patterns, emblems, inscriptions and pictures could be embedded and rendered permanent by the double coating of glass.

Percussionfigures, readily made on the cleavage-faces, have rays parallel to faces of the rhombic dodecahedron; whilst figures etched with water represent the four-faced cube.

The latter are in fact little microscopes carrying a vernier etched on glass, in lieu of a filar micrometer.

He led her to a large mossy rock that was etched with a name and date.

A similar distribution of electric charges is produced when a crystal is subjected to pressure; quartz being thus also piezo-electric. Etched figures, both natural and artificial (in the latter case produced by the action of hydrofluoric acid), on the faces of the crystals are in accordance with the symmetry, and may serve to distinguish leftand righthanded crystals.

Her cheeks burned anew as she recalled what would hereafter be etched in her mind as the kiss.

He was standing at the edge of the kitchen, a bouquet of wildflowers in one hand and concern etched in that delicious chocolate gaze.

The faces are often etched or corroded.

She continued to bang away on her keyboard, the smile etched on her face.

Synonyms:

graven, carven, carved, incised, engraved, inscribed,

Antonyms:

simple, uncut, spoken, uncarved,