Dry-point, a sharp etching-needle, used to incise fine lines in copper, without the plate being covered with etching-ground, or the lines bit in by acid (see ENGRAVING, ETCING). The work produced by the dry-point is not only very delicate, but it wears less in printing than lines produced by the action of acid.
Dry-point
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 101
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