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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sculpture \Sculp"ture\ (?; 135), n. [L. sculptura: cf F.
sculpture.]
1. The art of carving, cutting, or hewing wood, stone, metal,
etc., into statues, ornaments, etc., or into figures, as
of men, or other things hence the art of producing
figures and groups, whether in plastic or hard materials.
2. Carved work modeled of or cut upon wood, stone, metal,
etc
There too in living sculpture, might be seen The
mad affection of the Cretan queen. --Dryden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sculpture \Sculp"ture\ (?; 135), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Sculptured}; p. pr & vb n. {Sculpturing}.]
To form with the chisel on in or from wood, stone, or
metal; to carve; to engrave.
{Sculptured tortoise} (Zo["o]l.), a common North American
wood tortoise ({Glyptemys insculpta}). The shell is marked
with strong grooving and ridges which resemble sculptured
figures.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
sculpture
n 1: a three-dimensional work of art
2: making figures or designs in three dimensions [syn: {carving}]
v 1: shape from stone or wood or any other hard material [syn: {sculpt}]
2: shape (stone or wood, for example) by whittling away at it
"She is sculpting an image of her husband" [syn: {sculpt},
{grave}]
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