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c; to pass literary or artistic judgment upon; as, to criticise an author; to criticise a picture.

Pertaining to a rude kind of hieroglyphics, in which a thing is represented by its picture instead of by a symbol.

A photographic picture obtained by the use of a cyanide.

The realistic effect is increased by putting, in the space between the spectator and the picture, things adapted to the scene represented, and in some places only parts of these objects, the completion of them being carried out pictorially.

The process of taking such pictures.

The art or process of producing pictures by method of Daguerre.

to bespatter; to touch here and there; as, to dash wine with water; to dash paint upon a picture. I take care to dash the character with such particular circumstance as may prevent ill-natured applications. Addison. The very source and fount of day Is dashed with wandering isles of night. Tennyson.

To paint in a coarse or unskillful manner. If a picture is daubed with many bright and glaring colors, the vulgar admire it is an excellent piece. I. Watts. A lame, imperfect piece, rudely daubed over. Dryden.

The art or process of transferring pictures and designs to china, glass, marble, etc., and permanently fixing them thereto.

m or figure of; to represent by sketch, design, or diagram; to sketch out; to portray; to picture; in drawing and engraving, to represent in lines, as with the pen, pencil, or graver; hence, to represent with accuracy and minuteness. See Delineation. Adventurous to delineate nature's form. Akenside.…

A delineated picture; representation; sketch; description in words. Their softest delineations of female beauty. W. Irving.

To paint; to picture; hence, to describe; to delineate in words; to depict. [Obs.] And do unwilling worship to the saint That on his shield depainted he did see. Spenser. In few words shall see the nature of many memorable persons . . . depainted. Holland.

To form a colored likeness of; to represent by a picture; to paint; to portray. His arms are fairly depicted in his chamber. Fuller.

y sketch; an outline or pattern of the main features of something to be executed, as of a picture, a building, or a decoration; a delineation; a plan.

To become apparent gradually; as, a picture on sensitive paper develops on the application of heat; the plans of the conspirators develop.

A dark box constructed for viewing transparent pictures, with or without a lens.

An instrument designed for transmitting pictures by telegraph. Fallows.

A picture or series of pictures painted on two tablets connected by hinges. See Triptych.

To efface, as a picture. [Obs.] Shak.

Melting; breaking up; vanishing. -- Dis*solv"ing*ly, adv. Dissolving view, a picture which grows dim and is gradually replaced by another on the same field; -- an effect produced by magic lanterns.