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Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea. Each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Poe.

To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image. With gold men may the hearte grave. Chaucer.

Carved. Graven image, an idol; an object of worship carved from wood, stone, etc. "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image." Ex. xx. 4.

ether; better far, I guess, That we do make our entrance several ways. Shak. But in known images of life I guess The labor greater. Pope.

The pilgrimage to Mecca, performed by Mohammedans.

. It builds a globular nest on the stems of wheat and other plants. -- Harvest queen, an image pepresenting Ceres, formerly carried about on the last day of harvest. Milton. -- Harvest spider. (Zoöl.) See Daddy longlegs.

deas an incongruous or fantastic turn, and tends to excite laughter or mirth by ludicrous images or representations; a playful fancy; facetiousness. For thy sake I admit That a Scot may have humor, I'd almost said wit. Goldsmith. A great deal of excellent humor was expended on the perplexities of mine host. W. Irving.…

An image or representation; a portrait or pretended portrait. Netherlands whose names and icons are published. Hakewill.

Pertaining to, or consisting of, images, pictures, or representations of any kind.

To form an image or likeness of. [R.] Cudworth.

The doctrine or practice of the iconoclasts; image breaking.

A breaker or destroyer of images or idols; a determined enemy of idol worship.

Of or pertaining to the iconoclasts, or to image breaking. Milman.

One who serves images; -- opposed to an iconoclast. Schaff- Herzog Encyc.

A maker of images. Fairholt.

The art or representation by pictures or images; the description or study of portraiture or representation, as of persons; as, the iconography of the ancients.

One who worships images.

The worship of images as symbols; -- distinguished from idolatry, the worship of images themselves.

The discussion or description of portraiture or of representative images. Cf. Iconography.

Hostility to images as objects of worship. [R.]