(?), n. [L. pictura, fr. pingere, pictum, to paint: cf. F. peinture. See Paint.] 1.
The art of painting; representation by painting. [Obs.]
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-Any well-expressed image . . . either in picture or sculpture. Sir H. Wotton.
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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.
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-Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects. Bacon.
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-The young king's picture . . . in virgin wax. Howell.
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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.
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-My eyes make pictures when they are shut. Coleridge.
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