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Burin   Listen
noun
Burin  n.  
1.
The cutting tool of an engraver on metal, used in line engraving. It is made of tempered steel, one end being ground off obliquely so as to produce a sharp point, and the other end inserted in a handle; a graver; also, the similarly shaped tool used by workers in marble.
2.
The manner or style of execution of an engraver; as, a soft burin; a brilliant burin.






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"Burin" Quotes from Famous Books



... or melted by the Foehn-wind into dew, flash, in some lucky moment, with a light that mimics stars! But to allegorise and sermonise is out of place here. It is but the expedient of those who cannot etch sensation by the burin of ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece • John Addington Symonds



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