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A woman's broad-brimmed hat of a form thought to resemble those shown in portraits by Thomas Gainsborough, the English artist (1727- 88).

often representing Hermes, were used for other divinities, and even, in later times, for portraits of human beings. Called also herma. See Terminal statue, under Terminal.

An image or representation; a portrait or pretended portrait. Netherlands whose names and icons are published. Hakewill.

The art or representation by pictures or images; the description or study of portraiture or representation, as of persons; as, the iconography of the ancients.

The discussion or description of portraiture or of representative images. Cf. Iconography.

ral, or in mass. "Painted imagery." Shak. In those oratories might you see Rich carvings, portraitures, and imagery. Dryden.

Designating a canvas used for portraits of a peculiar size, viz., twenty-right or twenty-nine inches by thirtysix; -- so called because that size was adopted by Sir Godfrey Kneller for the portraits he painted of the members of the Kitcal Club. Fairholt.

Like a living being; resembling life; giving an accurate representation; as, a lifelike portrait. -- Life"like`ness, n. Poe.

That which closely resembles; a portrait. [How he looked] the likenesses of him which still remain enable us to imagine. Macaulay.

One who paints portraits.

ance of life, animation, or spirit; as, the liveliness of the eye or the countenance in a portrait.

The smallest of regular sizes of portrait photographs.

as those in mediæval manuscripts; in modern times, any very small painting, especially a portrait.

ted; true to nature; according to the life; -- said of anything copied or imitated; as, a portrait is natural.

or costruction; as, a book originally written by another hand. "Originally a half length [portrait]." Walpole.

s of colors or hues; to exhibit in a tinted image; to portray with paints; as, to paint a portrait or a landscape.

(a person) in a studied manner; as, to pose a model for a picture; to pose a sitter for a portrait.

ichaelmas Day), and the 25th of December (Christmas Day). -- Quarter face, in fine arts, portrait painting, etc., a face turned away so that but one quarter is visible. -- Quarter gallery (Naut.), a balcony on the quarter of a ship. See Gallery, 4. -- Quarter gunner (Naut.), a petty officer who assists the gunner.…

A portrait; a likeness. [Obs.] Whose fair retrait I in my shield do bear. Spenser.

s plant occuring among seedlings of some choice variety. Rogues' gallery, a collection of portraits of rogues or criminals, for the use of the police authorities. -- Rogue's march, derisive music performed in driving away a person under popular indignation or official sentence, as when a soldier is drummed out of a re…