chiselledchiseledadj.
/ˈtʃɪzəld/ 1. Cut, shaped or wrought with a chisel.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > materials having undergone process > [adjective] > having undergone other processes
alumed1574
splinted1616
scribed1678
cold-drawn1716
droved1754
cool-drawn1774
swaged1842
spliced1859
chiselled1873
steam-cured1909
refinished1910
precast1914
fibrillated1929
plasticized1937
foamed1943
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > [adjective] > sculptured or carved
ycorven1297
carven1330
graven1382
cutted1438
carveda1530
shorn1547
well carved1548
graved1552
under-carved1616
sculptile1621
sculptated1653
featured1745
sculptured1815
glyphica1856
chiselled1873
chip-carved1890
sculpted1961
1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets x. 336 An exquisitely chiselled gem.
1885 Athenæum 9 May 606/3 To lay the bones in a chiselled space in the centre.
2.
a. figurative. Having clear and sharp outlines, as if cut with a chisel.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > types of face > [adjective]
flatc1400
hardc1400
low-cheeredc1400
large?a1425
ruscledc1440
well-visagedc1440
platter-faced1533
well-faced1534
full-faced1543
fair-faced1553
bright-faceda1560
crab-faced1563
crab-snouted1563
crab-tree-faced1563
long-visaged1584
owlya1586
wainscot-faced1588
flaberkin1592
rough-hewn1593
angel-faced1594
round-faced1594
crab-favoured1596
rugged1596
weasel-faced1596
rough-faced1598
half-faced1600
chitty1601
lenten-faced1604
broad-faced1607
dog-faced1607
weaselled-faced1607
wry-faced1607
maid-faced1610
warp-faced1611
ill-faceda1616
lean-faceda1616
old-faceda1616
moon-faced1619
monkey-faced1620
chitty-face1622
chitty-faceda1627
lean-chapt1629
antic-faced1635
bloat-faced1638
bacon-facea1640
blue-faced1640
hatchet-faced1648
grave1650
lean-jawed1679
smock-faced1684
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flaber1687
baby-faced1692
splatter-faced1707
chubby1722
puggy1722
block-faced1751
haggard-looking1756
long-faced1762
haggardly1763
fresh-faced1766
dough-faced1773
pudding-faced1777
baby-featured1780
fat-faced1782
haggard1787
weazen-face1794
keen1798
ferret-like1801
lean-cheeked1812
mulberry-faced1812
open-faced1813
open-countenanced1819
chiselled1821
hatchety1821
misfeatured1822
terse1824
weazen-faced1824
mahogany-faced1825
clock-faced1827
sharp1832
sensual1833
beef-faced1838
weaselly1838
ferret-faced1840
sensuous1843
rat-faced1844
recedent1849
neat-faced1850
cherubimical1854
pinch-faced1859
cherubic1860
frownya1861
receding1866
weak1882
misfeaturing1885
platopic1885
platyopic1885
pro-opic1885
wind-splitting1890
falcon-face1891
blunt-featured1916
bun-faced1927
fish-faced1963
1821 Ld. Byron Marino Faliero (2nd issue) ii. i. 53 An incarnation of the poet's god In all his marble-chisell'd beauty.
1825 E. Bulwer-Lytton Falkland 30 The broad and noble brow, and..the chiselled lip.
1830 Ld. Tennyson Character v With chisell'd features clear and sleek.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. §5. 39.
b. figurative. Of thought or its expression.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > clarity > [adjective]
plaina1398
cleara1400
luminousc1450
lightsome1532
perspiculous1565
perspicuous1570
luculent1597
dilucida1640
limpid1649
dilucidate1651
elucidatea1670
dilucidated1759
lucid1786
pellucid1831
chiselleda1862
transpicuous1877
a1862 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. (1869) III. v. 331 That beautiful and chiselled style in which he habitually wrote.
1862 E. M. Goulburn Thoughts Personal Relig. (1873) ii. 11 A more distinct and more highly chiselled notion.
1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch I. ii. xiii. 222 A more chiselled emphasis.
3. Shaped or edged like a chisel.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > chisel > [adjective] > shaped or edged like chisel
chiselleda1737
a1737 M. Green Sparrow & Diam. iii, in Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Plays I. 147 With chizzled bill a spark ill set He loosen'd from the rest.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxx. 259 A crowbar with chiseled edge.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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adj.a1737- to slap face
- to slap high fives
- to slap on the back
- to slap someone on the back
- to slap wrist
- to slave one's eyeballs out
- to slay care
- to slay downright
- to slay downrights
- to slay outright
- to slay to death
- to slay up or down
- to sleek up
- to sleep a dog-sleep
- to sleep a dogsleep
- to sleep a or one wink
- to sleep a wink
- to sleep formerly also lie rough
- to sleep formerly also live rough
- to sleep in a whole skin
- to sleep in both ears
- to sleep like a top
- to sleep like as as fast as a top
- to sleep like as sound a top
- to sleep on both ears