engravery

English

Etymology

engrave +‎ -ery?

Noun

engravery (usually uncountable, plural engraveries)

1. (archaic) The trade or work of an engraver.
   • c. 1683, Thomas Browne, Certain Miscellany Tracts:

     They wonder to find the art of engravery so ancient upon precious stones and signets

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “engravery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)