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English Dictionary: damaskeen by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Damaskeen \Dam"as*keen`\, Damasken \Dam"as*ken\, v. t. [F.
      damaschinare. See {Damascene}, v.]
      To decorate, as iron, steel, etc., with a peculiar marking or
      [bd]water[b8] produced in the process of manufacture, or with
      designs produced by inlaying or incrusting with another
      metal, as silver or gold, or by etching, etc., to damask.
  
               Damaskeening is is partly mosaic work, partly
               engraving, and partly carving.               --Ure.
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