walling wax
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]- A mixture of wax and tallow used by etchers and engravers to make a bank, or wall, round the edge of a plate, so as to form a trough for holding the acid used in etching, etc.
- 1811, John Hassell, Calcographia:
- walling wax, to put round the plate, […] is made of bees wax, dissolved in a pipkin with horse turpentine
References
[edit]- “walling”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.