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on of lights and shades, instead of having the lights and shades reversed; as, a positive picture.

only; and futurism, a theory or practice which attempts to place the observer within the picture and to represent simultaneously a number of consecutive movements and impressions. In practice these theories and methods of the post- impressionists change with great rapidity and shade into one another, so that a picture…

a, the posture of whose limbs was so lively expressed . . . one would have sworn the very picture had run. Sir P. Sidney. In most strange postures We have seen him set himself. Shak. The posture of a poetic figure is a description of his heroes in the performance of such or such an action. Dryden.

part, of an altar; a superaltar; hence, in Italian painting, a band or frieze of several pictures running along the front of a superaltar, or forming a border or frame at the foot of an altarpiece.

That which is presented or given; a present; a gift, as, the picture was a presentation. [R.]

, destruction, or decay; security; safety; as, preservation of life, fruit, game, etc.; a picture in good preservation. Give us particulars of thy preservation. Shak.

tting, presswork, etc., of (a book or other publication); as, to print books, newspapers, pictures; to print an edition of a book.

Especially, a picturesque or widely extended view; a landscape; hence, a sketch of a landscape. I went to Putney . . . to take prospects in crayon. Evelyn.

Pyrography; also, a design or picture made by pyrography.

A playing card bearing the picture of a queen; as, the queen of spades.

A picture produced by the Röntgen rays upon a sensitive surface, photographic or fluorescent, especially a picture of opaque objects traversed by the rays.

bodies opaque to light, and producing photographic and fluorescent effects by which means pictures showing the internal structure of opaque objects are made, called radiographs, or sciagraphs. So called from the discoverer, W. C. Röntgen. -- X ray, the Röntgen ray; -- so called by its discoverer because of its enigmat…

A mode of expressing words and phrases by pictures of objects whose names resemble those words, or the syllables of which they are composed; enigmatical representation of words by figures; hence, a peculiar form of riddle made up of such representations.

To paint anew or again; as, to repaint a house; to repaint the ground of a picture.

A copy of a work of art, as of a picture or satue, made by the maker of the original.

To portray by pictoral or plastic art; to delineate; as, to represent a landscape in a picture, a horse in bronze, and the like.

A likeness, a picture, or a model; as, a representation of the human face, or figure, and the like.

To form a picture or model of, as of something lost or mutilated; as, to restore a ruined building, city, or the like.

To touch again, or rework, in order to improve; to revise; as, to retouch a picture or an essay.

ubstituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative (Photog.), a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney.