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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.]

To picture.

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

Relating to pisciculture.

Fish culture. See under Fish.

One who breeds fish.

Form; mold. [R.]

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

Polish; gloss. [Obs.] Donne.

The culture of fruit; pomology as an art.

ich is copied from some example or model. For, by the image of my cause, I see The portraiture of his. Shak. Divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbors but the portraiture. Bacon.

See Posture. [Obs.]

condition of being born after another in the same family; - - distinguished from primogeniture. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

The right of the youngest born. Mozley & W.

Of or pertaining to posture.

to the several principal members by which action is expressed; attitude. Atalanta, 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 he…