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. Sidney. To perfection, in the highest degree of excellence; perfectly; as, to imitate a model to perfection.

Art of modeling in cork.

f photographs simultaneously 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.

wing, engraving, photography, etc.; a representation in colors. By extension, a figure; a model. Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects. Bacon. The young king's picture . . . in virgin wax. Howell.

Capable of being molded, formed, or modeled, as clay or plaster; - - used also figuratively; as, the plastic mind of a child.

A plat; a plan; a sketch; a model; a pattern. Used also figuratively. [Obs.] Bacon.

a future piece of statuary; also, a process used in cutting the statue from the artist's model.

rait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence, that which 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.

sake of effect; an artificial position; as, the pose of an actor; the pose of an artist's model or of a statue.

parts of, with reference to a particular purpose; as, to posture one's self; to posture a model. Howell.

Direction; precept; model prescribed. Milton.

An original or model after which anything is copied; the pattern of anything to be engraved, or otherwise copied, cast, or the like; a primary form; exemplar; archetype. They will turn their backs on it, like their great precursor and prototype. Burke.

nch have been notorious through generations for their puerile affectation of Roman forms, models, and historic precedents. De Quincey.

To construct again; to rebuild; to remodel; to form again or anew. Regiments had been dissolved and reconstructed. Macaulay.

A likeness, a picture, or a model; as, a representation of the human face, or figure, and the like.

To form a picture or model of, as of something lost or mutilated; as, to restore a ruined building, city, or the like.

A partial reworking,as of a painting, a sculptor's clay model, or the like.

A rude model; the rudimentary, unfinished form of a thing.

ecially, the relative proportion of the linear dimensions of the parts of a drawing, map, model, etc., to the dimensions of the corresponding parts of the object that is represented; as, a map on a scale of an inch to a mile. Scale of chords, a graduated scale on which are given the lengths of the chords of arcs from 0…

Hence, an artist who designs works of sculpture, his first studies and his finished model being usually in a plastic material, from which model the marble is cut, or the bronze is cast.