Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Incise

Incise , transitive verb

[Latin incisus, past participle of incidere to incise: compare French inciser. See Incide.]

1.
To cut in or into with a sharp instrument; to carve; to engrave.
I on thy grave this epitaph incise. — T. Carew
2.
To cut, gash, or wound with a sharp instrument; to cut off.