Definition of picture

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Picture (n.) The art of painting; representation by painting.

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Photogravure :: Photogravure (n.) A photoengraving; also, the process by which such a picture is produced..
Trilogy :: Trilogy (n.) A series of three dramas which, although each of them is in one sense complete, have a close mutual relation, and form one historical and poetical picture. Shakespeare's Henry VI. is an example..
Cyanotype :: Cyanotype (n.) A photographic picture obtained by the use of a cyanide.
Draw :: Draw (v. t.) To run, extend, or produce, as a line on any surface; hence, also, to form by marking; to make by an instrument of delineation; to produce, as a sketch, figure, or picture..
Monogram :: Monogram (n.) A picture in lines; a sketch.
Transparency :: Transparency (n.) That which is transparent; especially, a picture painted on thin cloth or glass, or impressed on porcelain, or the like, to be viewed by natural or artificial light, which shines through it..
Stereoplasm :: Stereomonoscope (n.) An instrument with two lenses, by which an image of a single picture projected upon a screen of ground glass is made to present an appearance of relief, and may be viewed by several persons at once..
Daguerreotype :: Daguerreotype (n.) The process of taking such pictures.
Picture :: Picture (n.) The art of painting; representation by painting.
Eye :: Eye (n.) The faculty of seeing; power or range of vision; hence, judgment or taste in the use of the eye, and in judging of objects; as, to have the eye of sailor; an eye for the beautiful or picturesque..
Nativity :: Nativity (n.) A picture representing or symbolizing the early infancy of Christ. The simplest form is the babe in a rude cradle, and the heads of an ox and an ass to express the stable in which he was born..
Repaint :: Repaint (v. t.) To paint anew or again; as, to repaint a house; to repaint the ground of a picture..
Ferrotype :: Ferrotype (n.) A photographic picture taken on an iron plate by a collodion process; -- familiarly called tintype.
Limning :: Limning (n.) The act, process, or art of one who limns; the picture or decoration so produced..
Illustrate :: Illustrate (v. t.) To adorn with pictures, as a book or a subject; to elucidate with pictures, as a history or a romance..
Shade :: Shade (n.) The darker portion of a picture; a less illuminated part. See Def. 1, above..
Prospect :: Prospect (v.) Especially, a picturesque or widely extended view; a landscape; hence, a sketch of a landscape..
Curiologic :: Curiologic (a.) Pertaining to a rude kind of hieroglyphics, in which a thing is represented by its picture instead of by a symbol..
Offset :: Offset (n.) A more or less distinct transfer of a printed page or picture to the opposite page, when the pages are pressed together before the ink is dry or when it is poor..
Rhyparography :: Rhyparography (n.) In ancient art, the painting of genre or still-life pictures..
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