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In Egyptian art, an image of granite or porphyry, having a human head, or the head of a ram or of a hawk, upon the wingless body of a lion. The awful ruins of the days of old . . . Or jasper tomb, or mutilated sphinx. Shelley.

ng; to make contemptuous opposition or resistance. Nay, more, to spurn at your most royal image. Shak.

The art of carving statues or images as representatives of real persons or things; a branch of sculpture. Sir W. Temple.

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.

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.

ting essentially of a magic lantern in which photographic pictures are used, by which the image of a landscape, or any object, may be thrown upon a screen in such a manner as to seem to stand out in relief, so as to form a striking and accurate representation of the object itself; also, a pair of magic lanterns for pro…

ions; surprising; forcible; impressive; very noticeable; as, a striking representation or image; a striking resemblance. "A striking fact." De Quincey. -- Strik"ing*ly, adv. -- Strik"ing*ness, n.

Performing the office of columns; as, Atlantes and Caryatides are stylagalmaic figures or images. [Written also stylogalmaic.]

Real being; existence. Not only the things had subsistence, but the very images were of some creatures existing. Stillingfleet.

ace or position; higher; upper; as, the superior limb of the sun; the superior part of an image.

The reflection of a reflected image or sound. [R.] Bacon.

Sustentation. [R. or Colloq.] In fine images, in sustention, in irony, they surpass anything that Burke ever wrote. J. Morley.

A niche for the image of a saint, or for any sacred painting or sculpture.

of the heavens, to which wonderful effects are ascribed; the seal, figure, character, or image, of a heavenly sign, constellation, or planet, engraved on a sympathetic stone, or on a metal corresponding to the star, in order to receive its influence.

An instrument for telegraphically transmitting a picture and reproducing its image as a positive or negative. The transmitter includes a camera obscura and a row of minute selenium cells. The receiver includes an oscillograph, ralay, equilibrator, and an induction coil the sparks from which perforate a paper with tiny…

A telelectric apparatus for producing images of visible objects at a distance.

signating a lens consisting of a combination of lenses specially designed to give a large image of a distant object in a camera of relatively short focal length.

A photograph, image, or impression, reproduced by or taken with a telephotographic apparatus.

lens or mounted in place of the eyepiece of a telescope, so that the real or a magnified image falls on the sensitive plate.

o give instruction to; to make report to; to acquaint; to teach; to inform. A secret pilgrimage, That you to-day promised to tell me of Shak.