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Rather good than the contrary; not actually bad; tolerable. Goodish pictures in rich frames. Walpole.

counters on a board divided into compartments, in some of which a goose was depicted. The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose. Goldsmith. A wild goose chase, an attempt to accomplish something impossible or unlikely of attainment. -- Fen goose. See under Fen. -- Goose…

ue colors, which have been ground in water and mingled with a preparation of gum; also, a picture thus painted.

The act, process, or art, of graving or carving; engraving. Either of picture or gravery and embossing. Holland.

Of half the whole or ordinary length, as a picture.

pertaining to or designating plates, processes, or the pictures made by them, in which gradation of tone in the photograph is reproduced by a graduated system of dotted and checkered spots, usually nearly invisible to the unaided eye, produced by the interposition between the camera and the object of a screen. The name…

To cover, decorate, or furnish by hanging pictures trophies, drapery, and the like, or by covering with paper hangings; -- said of a wall, a room, etc. Hung be the heavens with black. Shak. And hung thy holy roofs with savage spoils. Dryden.

A picture taken by heliography; a photograph.

A picture obtained by the process of heliotypy.

A method of transferring pictures from photographic negatives to hardened gelatin plates from which impressions are produced on paper as by lithography.

Half of the terrestrial globe, or a projection of the same in a map or picture.

A sacred character; a character in picture writing, as of the ancient Egyptians, Mexicans, etc. Specifically, in the plural, the picture writing of the ancient Egyptian priests. It is made up of three, or, as some say, four classes of characters: first, the hieroglyphic proper, or figurative, in which the representatio…

Emblematic; expressive of some meaning by characters, pictures, or figures; as, hieroglyphic writing; a hieroglyphic obelisk. Pages no better than blanks to common minds, to his, hieroglyphical of wisest secrets. Prof. Wilson.

ly bark. See Cascara sagrada. -- Holy Communion. See Eucharist. -- Holy family (Art), a picture in which the infant Christ, his parents, and others of his family are represented. -- Holy Father, a title of the pope. -- Holy Ghost (Theol.),the third person of the Trinity; the Comforter; the Paraclete. -- Holy Grail…

The chief horizontal line in a picture of any sort, which determines in the picture the height of the eye of the spectator; in an extended landscape, the representation of the natural horizon corresponds with this line. Apparent horizon. See under Apparent. -- Artificial horizon, a level mirror, as the surface of merc…

A photographic picture copied from the negative on glass; a photographic transparency. R. Hunt.

lphate, a solution of which is used as a bath to wash out the unchanged silver salts in a picture. [Colloq.]

A vivid, picturesque description of scenes or events.

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

An engraving or other picture or illustration for a book.