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English Dictionary: (picture)	by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
PicturePicture\Pic"ture\, n. {Animated picture}, a moving picture. d8Pierre-perdu \[d8]Pierre`-per`du"\, n. [F. pierre perdue lost stone.] Blocks of stone or concrete heaped loosely in the water to make a foundation (as for a sea wall), a mole, etc.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
PicturePicture\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 picturepictureor 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 picturepicture. . . 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 picturepictureof his father; the man is the picturepictureof grief. My eyes make pictures when they are shut. --Coleridge. Note: PicturePictureis often used adjectively, or in forming self-explaining compounds; as, picturepicturebook or picture-book, picturepictureframe or picture-frame, picturepicture seller or picture-seller, etc. {PicturePicturegallery}, a gallery, or large apartment, devoted to the exhibition of pictures. {PicturePicturered}, a rod of metal tube fixed to the walls of a room, from which pictures are hung. {PicturePicturewriting}. (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 picturepicture writing of the American Indians. Syn: {Picture}, {Painting}. Usage: 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 picturepicturemade by means of colored paints, usually applied moist with a brush.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
PicturePicture\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. [bd]I . . . do picturepictureit in my mind.[b8] --Spenser. I have not seen him so pictured. --Shak.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
picturepicture {image}