chiselled, -eled, ppl. a.
(ˈtʃɪzəld)
[f. chisel v.1 (or n.1) + -ed.]
1. Cut, shaped or wrought with a chisel.
| 1873 Symonds Grk. 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. fig. Having clear and sharp outlines, as if cut with a chisel.
| 1821 Byron Mar. Fal. ii. i. 389 An incarnation of the poet's god In all his marble-chisell'd beauty. 1825 Lytton Falkland 30 The broad and noble brow, and..the chiselled lip. 1830 Tennyson Character v, With chisell'd features clear and sleek. 1860 Tyndall Glac. i. §5. 39. |
b. fig. Of thought or its expression.
| a 1862 Buckle Civilis. (1869) III. v. 331 That beautiful and chiselled style in which he habitually wrote. 1862 Goulburn Pers. Relig. ii. (1873) 11 A more distinct and more highly chiselled notion. 1872 Geo. Eliot Middlem. ii. xiii. 222 A chiselled emphasis. |
3. Shaped or edged like a chisel.
| a 1737 M. Green Sparrow & Diam. iii. in Dodsley I. 147 With chizzled bill a spark ill set He loosen'd from the rest. 1853 Kane Grinnell Exp. xxx, A crowbar with chiseled edge. |