Definitions

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

  • adjective Formed by hammering, stamping, or pressing.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To impress by striking or stamping, as a coin.
  • Hammered, stamped, or struck in; having a pattern impressed or stamped upon the surface.
  • noun An impression; a stamp, as that on a coin made by the surface upon which the object rests to be struck by the die.

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

  • adjective (Numismatics) Cut or stamped in, or hollowed out by engraving.
  • transitive verb To form, or mold, by striking or stamping, as a coin or medal.

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

  • adjective hammered or pressed in (usually on a coin)
  • noun an impression hammered or pressed (onto a coin)
  • verb transitive To hammer or press (usually onto a coin)

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin incūdere, incūs-, to forge with a hammer; see incus.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Latin incusus, past participle of incudere, from in- + cudere.

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  • Canterbury

    They wear this way, their souls to soothe,

    Devotion's the tool that so hews,

    As, barefoot or shod,

    The pilgrims have trod

    The stone of these steps to incuse.

    June 12, 2015