Burin

Word BURIN
Character 5
Hyphenation bu rin
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Burin"

What do we mean by burin?

A steel cutting tool with a sharp beveled point, used in engraving or carving stone. noun

A stone tool with a chisellike head. noun

The style or technique of an engraver's work. noun

An engravers' tool of tempered steel, with a lozenge-shaped point, fixed in a handle the end of which, held in the hand, is rounded at the top; a graver. noun

The manner or style of execution of an engraver: as, a soft burin; a brilliant burin. noun

A steel graver used by marble-workers. Also spelled burine. noun

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. noun

The manner or style of execution of an engraver. noun

A chisel with a sharp point, used for engraving; a graver. noun

A prehistoric flint tool. noun

A chisel of tempered steel with a sharp point; used for engraving noun

A chisel with a sharp point, used for engraving; a graver.

A prehistoric flint tool

What trogdor the burninator does in his free time. Urban Dictionary

Slang word for diahrrea. A combination of the words butt and urine. Urban Dictionary

Synonym for diarrhoea Urban Dictionary

Noun: City Small town in rural Newfoundland with a lot of scoccer fanatics and a lot of drunks. Mostly drunk soccer fanatics. Urban Dictionary

The process your body goes through after becoming completely trashed from drinking a load of beer. Urban Dictionary

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The word "burin" in example sentences

Seeing that in the Treatise on the Technique of Painting there was little said of copper-plate engraving, since it was enough at that time to describe the method of engraving silver with the burin, which is a square tool of iron, cut on the slant, with a sharp point, I shall use the occasion of this Life to say as much on that subject as I may consider to be sufficient. ❋ Giorgio Vasari (1542)

A burin was a flaked rock tool with a chisel-like edge probably used to remove flesh from bone. ❋ Unknown (2009)

“A burin probably helped engrave the models for the first pennies.” ❋ Tracy Trivas (2010)

As if all this weren't enough, the visitor-friendly show also offers wall-panel introductions to each segment in French, Spanish and English, and a small side gallery demonstrating the various techniques of copper-plate engraving -- etching, dry point, burin, aquatint -- and lithography. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He carried an engraving block and a burin in his pocket and would ask for work and produce required pictures on the spot. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Tremendous physical force was required to push the metal burin into the flesh of the copper plate, digging out metal with metal, before ink flowed into the resulting grooves, and the plate was run through a press, and the image transferred onto wet paper. ❋ Noah Charney (2007)

The graving tool, or burin, was of critical importance, for it enabled people to cut strips of fresh reindeer antler to manufacture specialized tools. ❋ Unknown (2001)

Some needed both hands and feet, if they used a burin-wheel for carving gems; and these, lest they should slip off untraced, had had their noses taken. ❋ Renault, Mary (1972)

We can wait fifty years more for a biography of Allston, because something of his gracious presence yet lingers among us; but we can touch Scheffer only with the burin or the pen. ❋ Various (N/A)

London in 1798, and, after a limited education, he began to learn the art of engraving; but his pen was more powerful than his burin. ❋ Henry Coppee (N/A)

The manifold details of the Buddha's traditional career are vividly pourtrayed on the hoary walls of volcanic trachyte in outline clear and sharp, as though the sculptors of the eighth century had just laid down burin and chisel. ❋ Emily Richings (N/A)

It is much superior to the more delicate engravings from his designs by other artists, and I prefer it to those that were still higher finished by his own burin. ❋ John Trusler (N/A)

Three Trees of Rembrandt, black in shadow against the blaze of sunlight; and thou Rosy Cottager of Sir Joshua, -- thy roses hinted by the peppery burin of Bartolozzi; ye, too, of lower grades in nature, yet not unlovely nor unrenowned, Young Bull of Paulus Potter, and Sleeping Cat of Cornelius Visscher; welcome once more to my eyes! ❋ Various (N/A)

Passing from the bloom of Nature, we complete our circuit with that which springs from the pencil, the chisel and the burin. ❋ Various (N/A)

Indeed Bartoccini is already best known from the engravings of Overbeck's designs to the New Testament, the best of which were from his burin. ❋ Various (N/A)

It would be interesting to trace the career of the thoughtful and precocious child known as Manon or Marie Phlipon, who sat in her father's studio with the burin of an engraver in one hand and a book in the other, eagerly absorbing the revolutionary theories which were to prove so fatal to her, but it is not the purpose here to dwell upon the details of her life. ❋ Amelia Ruth Gere Mason (N/A)

The belfry clangs with a louder peal; even Clarian's Picture, though it hath utterly perished to the eye of sense, lives vivid in a thousand memories, and, having found in the tenderness of tradition and legend an engraver whose burin is as faithful as Raphael Morghen's, has left the damp dark wall, like Leonardo's ❋ Various (N/A)

[burninating] [the countryside], burninating the [peasants], burninating all the peoples... ❋ Mbentley (2004)

Man, after that [greasy mexican] food and [Corona Light] I have some [explosive] burine! ❋ Balls On Beercans (2008)

I ate a bad [prawn], which resulted in my burine [spraying] EVERWHERE, it was [ghastly]! ❋ Jimmy Crickets (2010)

Hey [Jordan], are you coming with us to hit a [6 pack] before [the game] in Burin? ❋ Dancingtoes16 (2008)

[Damn dude], you definitely just burinated on my couch. GET [A DIAPER]! or Wow my girl [snoopy's] been to the bathroom at least 10 times tonight, must be burinating. ❋ Lil Stomp (2005)

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