Definitions of etch

1. To practise etching.

2. To produce, as figures or designs, on mental, glass, or the like, by means of lines or strokes eaten in or corroded by means of some strong acid.

3. To sketch; to delineate.

4. To engrave by biting out with an acid a design previously drawn upon a copperplate.

5. To engrave by corrosion with an acid.

6. To practice etching; to make etchings.

7. To make designs on metal, glass, etc., by eating out the lines with an acid.

8. To produce figures or designs on copper or other metallic plates by eating out or biting with an acid the lines previously drawn with a needle on a coated surface.

9. To engrave a metal plate by the eating or corroding power of an acid.

10. Etching.

11. Ground from which a crop has been taken.