Etch

Part of speech: noun (n.)

A variant of Eddish. [Obs.] Mortimer.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To produce, as figures or designs, on mental, glass, or the like, by means of lines or strokes eaten in or corroded by means of some strong acid.

2. To subject to etching; to draw upon and bite with acid, as a plate of metal. I was etching a plate at the beginning of 1875. Hamerton.

3. To sketch; to delineate. [R.] There are many empty terms to be found in some learned writes, to which they had recourse to etch out their system. Locke.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To practice etching; to make etchings.