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burin|ˈbjʊərɪn|
Also 7, 9 burine.
[a. Fr. burin, cogn. w. It. bolino, borino, Sp. and Pg. buril, OSp. boril, perh. f. OHG. bora boring-tool. The It. form bolino was occas. used in 17th c.]
1. a. A graver; the tool used by an engraver on copper; also attrib.
1662Evelyn Chalcogr. (1769) 57 [The utmost efforts and excellency of the bolino]. Ibid. xi. (1805) 262 Whither wrought with the burin..or with aqua fortis. 1674Govt. Tongue vii. §2. 140 Like the gravers burine upon copper. 1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) III. 227 Several of his designs..were afterwards retouched with the burin by his disciple. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. III. x. vi. 266 The Text itself engraved; all by the exquisite burin of Pine. 1880Hamerton in Daily News 13 Apr. 3/6 Painters of the present day consider etchings at least equal to burin engravings..a burin engraver can only plod patiently to a foreseen result.
b. The style or manner of using the graver.
1824Dibdin Libr. Comp. 507 'Tis a fine specimen of Loggan's bold burin.
2. A triangular tool used by marble-workers.
3. Archæol. A flint tool with a point like that of a chisel.
1916H. F. Osborn Men of Old Stone Age iv. 308 The primitive graving-tool, or burin..which we know was designed by the Crô-Magnon artists for their early engravings on stone. 1921M. C. Burkitt Prehist. iv. 69 Gravers or burins fall into two main groups, the difference being determined by an observation of the working edge. In one variety this is straight like a screw-driver,..the other variety, being curved like a gouge, is known as the gouge type. 1939W. B. Wright Tools & Man ii. 15 The burin or graver of flint. 1957Encycl. Brit. II. 239/2 Aurignacian..The tool types include various kinds of steep-ended scrapers,..busked gravers or burins and split-base bone points.
Hence ˈburinist, an engraver.
[1796Pegge Anonym. (1809) 187 We..might not improperly, as we use a tool called a burin, be called Burinators, and the Art, Burining.] a1864For. Q. Rev. No. 1 (L.) Many expert burinists. 1882American V. 124 All the great original burinists did not invent, but reproduced with the burin. |