Electro-tint

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Electro-tint \E*lec"tro-tint`\, n. (Fine Arts)
     A style of engraving in relief by means of voltaic
     electricity. A picture is drawn on a metallic plate with some
     material which resists the fluids of a battery; so that, in
     electro-typing, the parts not covered by the varnish, etc.,
     receive a deposition of metal, and produce the required copy


     in intaglio. A cast of this is then the plate for printing.
     [1913 Webster]