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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The art of engraving or carving, especially on precious stones; glyptography.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The art of carving or engraving.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The art of engraving on precious stones.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The art of engraving on precious stones.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the art of engraving on precious stones

Etymologies

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Compare French glyptique. See glyph.

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