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dry point
noun
An acid-free etching created by direct incision into a metal or clear acrylic plate with an etching scribe.
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Each hard-ground etching includes additions of dry point, aquatint, and/or burnishing.
He would, for example, introduce dry point and engraving lines into his etchings.
For example, how well the dry point burr has held up.
After lunch, a nap, which is, I think, the only dry point of the day.
"Going to the nearest dry point can be a big advantage near the green.
Its coast also holds the record as the lowest dry point on earth, at 1,292 feet below sea level.
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In 1947 the Daily Princetonian announced "Undergraduates are invited to view an exhibition of etchings and dry points at the Princeton Print Club at 36 University Place.
Valid as the Kentucky legislation undoubtedly was as a regulation in respect to intrastate shipments of such articles, it was most obviously never an effective enactment in so far as it undertook to regulate interstate shipments to dry points.
He then laid the myrtle's remains out to dry, pointing its four main branches toward the four points of the compass, and began to set them ablaze.
Gas exchange was measured at the driest point prior to the next irrigation event.
This is the lowest and driest point in North America and one of the hottest in the world.
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