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Webster 1913 Edition
Picture
1.
The art of painting; representation by painting.
[Obs.]
Any well-expressed image . . . either in
picture
or sculpture. Sir H. Wotton.
2.
A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, produced by means of painting, drawing, engraving, photography, etc.; a representation in colors. By extension, a figure; a model.
Pictures
and shapes are but secondary objects. Bacon.
The young king’s
picture
. . . in virgin wax. Howell.
3.
An image or resemblance; a representation, either to the eye or to the mind; that which, by its likeness, brings vividly to mind some other thing;
as, a child is the
picture
of his father; the man is the picture
of grief.My eyes make
pictures
when they are shut. Coleridge.
☞ Picture is often used adjectively, or in forming self-explaining compounds; as, picture book or picture-book, picture frame or picture-frame, picture seller or picture-seller, etc.
Animated picture
, a moving picture.
– Picture gallery
, a gallery, or large apartment, devoted to the exhibition of pictures.
– Picture red
, a rod of metal tube fixed to the walls of a room, from which pictures are hung.
– Picture writing
. (a)
The art of recording events, or of expressing messages, by means of pictures representing the actions or circumstances in question
. Tylor.
(b)
The record or message so represented;
as, the
.picture writing
of the American Indians Every kind of representation by drawing or painting is a picture, whether made with oil colors, water colors, pencil, crayons, or India ink; strictly, a painting is a picture made by means of colored paints, usually applied moist with a brush.
Pic′ture
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Pictured
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Picturing
.] To draw or paint a resemblance of; to delineate; to represent; to form or present an ideal likeness of; to bring before the mind.
“I . . . do picture it in my mind.” Spenser.
I have not seen him so
pictured
. Shakespeare
Webster 1828 Edition
Picture
PIC'TURE
,Noun.
1.
A painting exhibiting the resemblance of any thing; a likeness drawn in colors. Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects.
2.
The words of painters; painting. Quintilian, when he saw any well expressed image of grief, either in picture or sculpture, would usually weep.
3.
Any resemblance or representation, either to the eye or to the understanding. Thus we say, a child is the picture of his father; the poet has drawn an exquisite picture of grief.PIC'TURE
,Verb.
T.
Love is like a painter, who, in drawing the picture of a friend having a blemish in one eye, would picture only the other side of the face.
1.
To represent; to form or present an ideal likeness. I do picture it in my mind.