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  2  definitions  found 
 
  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]: 
 
  sculptured 
  adj  1:  cut  into  a  desired  shape;  "graven  images";  "sculptured 
  representations"  [syn:  {graven},  {sculpted}] 
  2:  resembling  sculpture;  "her  finely  modeled  features"; 
  "rendered  with...vivid  sculptural  effect";  "the 
  sculpturesque  beauty  of  the  athletes'  bodies"  [syn:  {modeled}, 
  {sculptural},  {sculpturesque}] 




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