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oratorical or dramatic ability; as, an exhibition of animals; an exhibition of pictures, statues, etc.; an industrial exhibition.

An artist who models or forms statues and reliefs in any plastic material. [R.] Elmes.

The figure, statue, or bust, on the prow of a ship.

human or of an animal; especially, one in terra cotta or the like; -- distinguished from statuette, which is applied to small figures in bronze, marble, etc.

and even, in later times, for portraits of human beings. Called also herma. See Terminal statue, under Terminal.

A niche for a statue.

A worshiper of idols; one who pays divine honors to images, statues, or representations of anything made by hands; one who worships as a deity that which is not God; a pagan.

To celebrate the completion of, or the first public use of; to dedicate, as a statue. [Colloq.]

columns or pillars; as, the intercolumnar fibers of Poupart's ligament; an intercolumnar statue.

A celebrated Egyptian statue near Thebes, said to have the property of emitting a harplike sound at sunrise.

presence of water; to crumble away. The moldering of earth in frosts and sun. Bacon. When statues molder, and when arches fall. Prior. If he had sat still, the enemy's army would have moldered to nothing. Clarendon.

A single stone, especially one of large size, shaped into a pillar, statue, or monument.

ve a limb or essential part of; to maim; to cripple; to hack; as, to mutilate the body, a statue, etc.

A cavity, hollow, or recess, generally within the thickness of a wall, for a statue, bust, or other erect ornament. hence, any similar position, literal or figurative. Images defended from the injuries of the weather by niches of stone wherein they are placed. Evelun.

an, degrading, or dishonorable; magnanimous; as, a noble nature or action; a noble heart. Statues, with winding ivy crowned, belong To nobler poets for a nobler song. Dryden.

Bare; naked; unclothed; undraped; as, a nude statue.

he tribute of the multitude to a public favorite. To rain an April of ovation round Their statues. Tennyson.

Any statue of the goddess Pallas; esp., the famous statue on the preservation of which depended the safety of ancient Troy.

A ceramic ware, resembling unglazed porcelain biscuit, of which are made statuettes, ornaments, etc.

A falsified work of art, as a vase or statue made up of parts of original works, with missing parts supplied.