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  • verb Present participle of incise.

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Examples

  • To eliminate any question of ownership, Belzoni and Henry Salt took to incising their names directly on the relics.

    A Pre-Digital Tomb Raider Gerard Helferich 2011

  • There is also the recent suggestion by the American Academy of Pediatrics to barter a compromise, recommending that pediatricians offer the gentler, kinder form of FGM, Type 4: pricking, piercing, or incising.

    ProWomanProLife » The gentler side of female genital mutilation 2010

  • After rolling my first gather of glass in the frit and melting the frit into it, I put the jack glass-side down and push, incising lines into the glass.

    Kater’s Art » 2010 » August 2010

  • Finally this tiny devotee of the July sun deigned to land, and down came the camera shutter on the black scent lines incising its fierce orange upper-wings and on the muted green under-wings crisscrossed by broken patterns of white.

    Country diary: Cosford Hall, Suffolk 2011

  • After I found a good, short, phrase, I picked a font from my calligraphy book and used my incising tools to impress the metal.

    Kater’s Art » Blog Archive » Portal Book 2010

  • My mother had blown out their insides with a coffee straw before incising circles into their sides.

    The Landscape of Pleasure 2010

  • Engraving | The most traditional process for social stationery, it involves the incising of letters or images into a steel die or copper plate.

    Leaving the Right Impression Lesley M. M. Blume 2011

  • To add to this, in the presence of said investigator, "the defendant" is shown in another part of the apartment complex (or "laboratory") to have various kinds of dental-type cutting or incising equipment and materials for doing just the kind enhancing, cleaning or upgrading activity he admits (with a straight face) to having occasionally done above to the interviewer.

    Robert Eisenman: The James Ossuary: Is It Authentic? (An Update) Robert Eisenman 2011

  • My mother had blown out their insides with a coffee straw before incising circles into their sides.

    The Landscape of Pleasure 2010

  • My mother had blown out their insides with a coffee straw before incising circles into their sides.

    The Landscape of Pleasure 2010

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