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A phosphide. [Obsoles.]

Impregnated, or combined, with phosphorus. [Obsoles.] [Written also phosphuretted.] Phosphureted hydrogen. (Chem.) See Phosphine.

A photoengraving; also, the process by which such a picture is produced.

ultaneously taken from different points of view on the same level, rough models of the figure or bust of a person or animal may be made with great expedition.

painting; representation by painting. [Obs.] Any well-expressed image . . . either in picture or sculpture. Sir H. Wotton.

Furnished with pictures; represented by a picture or pictures; as, a pictured scene.

One who makes pictures; a painter. [R.] Fuller.

Forming, or fitted to form, a good or pleasing picture; representing with the clearness or ideal beauty appropriate to a picture; expressing that peculiar kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture, natural or artificial; graphic; vivid; as, a picturesque scene or attitude; picturesque language. What is picturesque…

Somewhat picturesque. [R.]

Capture of fishes, as by angling. [R.] W. H. Russell.

Fish culture. See under Fish.

Form; mold. [R.]

r satisfying; -- opposed to Ant: pain, Ant: sorrow, etc. At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. Ps. xvi. 11.

Affording pleasure. [R.]

Devoid of pleasure. G. Eliot.

A pleasure seeker. Dickens.

A tissue consisting of long and slender tubular cells, of which wood is mainly composed.

The act or process of weaving together, or interweaving; that which is woven together. H. Brooke.

A fold; a doubling; a plication. Dr. H. More.

Weight. [Obs.]