soft ground

noun

1. an etching ground usually mixed with tallow. Compare hard ground.
2. a technique of etching in which a design is drawn on paper placed on a plate covered with a soft ground, resulting in a granular effect resembling pencil, chalk, or crayon.

Example Sentences

Now the lads are in the meadow; very soon they feel their feet sinking in the soft ground where the rank grass grows.

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The animals slid on stiff legs, hoofs plowing the soft ground, raising a cloud of dust which dimmed the riders momentarily.

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“We shall trace them till we come to soft ground and make certain,” said Biarne.

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It abounds in soft ground, in which it can dig with ease, and which furnishes it with a great supply of food.

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Many of us were killed; others fell upon soft ground and lived.

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