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er metals, especially zinc, are sometimes added. It is hard and sonorous, and is used for statues, bells, cannon, etc., the proportions of the ingredients being varied to suit the particular purposes. The varieties containing the higher proportions of tin are brittle, as in bell metal and speculum metal.…

A bust; a statue. With some antick bustoes in the niches. Ashmole.

Also, a roofike covering, supported on pilars over an altar, a statue, a fountain, etc.

To cut, pare, gouge, or engrave with a chisel; as, to chisel a block of marble into a statue.

m debt; -- often used with of, off, away, or out. Clear your mind of cant. Dr. Johnson. A statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter. Addison.

Of enormous size; gigantic; huge; as, a colossal statue. "A colossal stride." Motley.

A statue of gigantic size. The name was especially applied to certain famous statues in antiquity, as the Colossus of Nero in Rome, the Colossus of Apollo at Rhodes. He doth bestride the narrow world Like a colossus. Shak.

A kind of pillar; a cylindrical or polygonal support for a roof, ceiling, statue, etc., somewhat ornamented, and usually composed of base, shaft, and capital. See Order.

reproduction of an original work; as, a copy of a letter, an engraving, a painting, or a statue. I have not the vanity to think my copy equal to the original. Denham.

Such an arrangement of accessories, as in a picture, statue, poem, or play, as is appropriate to the time, place, or other circumstances represented or described. I began last night to read Walter Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel . . . .I was extremely delighted with the poetical beauty of some parts . . . .The costume…

hoose. [R.] The most conspicuous places in cities are usually deputed for the erection of statues. Barrow.

dea; to invent; to project; to lay out in the mind; as, a man designs an essay, a poem, a statue, or a cathedral.

A statue of an athlete holding the discus, or about to throw it

Freed from a shroudlike covering; unveiled. The disenshrouded statue. R. Browning.

A spear bearer; a statue of a man holding a spear or in the attitude of a spear bearer. Several important sculptures of this subject existed in antiquity, copies of which remain to us.

To design drapery, arrange its folds, etc., as for hangings, costumes, statues, etc.

Being or riding on horseback; mounted; as, an equestrian statue. An equestrian lady appeared upon the plains. Spectator.

The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.

ous proportion or movement, as in the composition of a poem, an edifice, a painting, or a statue.

a work of art, of performing on an instrument, of engraving, etc.; as, the execution of a statue, painting, or piece of music. The first quality of execution is truth. Ruskin.