Pic"ture (?), n. --
Animated picture,
a moving picture.
Pic"ture , v. 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.
Shak.
Pic"ture (?), n. [L. pictura, fr.
pingere, pictum, to paint: cf. F. peinture. See Paint.]
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. &fist; 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.
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.
Syn. -- Picture,
Painting. 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.
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