STATUE

n. v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The likeness of a living being sculptured or modeled in some solid substance, as marble, bronze, or wax; an image; as, a statue of Hercules, or of a lion. I will raise her statue in pure gold. Shak.

2.
n.

A portrait. [Obs.] Massinger.

3.
v.

To place, as a statue; to form a statue of; to make into a statue. "The whole man becomes as if statued into stone and earth." Feltham.


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