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Fig.: A medley of figures; illusive images. "This mental phantasmagoria." Sir W. Scott.

arent existence; an apparition; a specter; a phantasm; a sprite; an airy spirit; an ideal image. Strange phantoms rising as the mists arise. Pope. She was a phantom of delight. Wordsworth. Phantom ship. See Flying Dutchman, under Flying. -- Phantom tumor (Med.), a swelling, especially of the abdomen, due to muscular s…

it of rays of light, as by pressure upon the eyeball when the lids are closed. Cf. After- image.

A luminous image or appearance of a hallucinatory character.

The process of obtaining an etched or engraved plate from the photographic image, to be used in printing; also, a picture produced by such a process.

of three optical lanterns for projecting objects on a screen in the colors of nature. The images of three partial photographs taken through color screens (red, green, and blue, respectively) are superimposed. Each image is given its own primary color, and these colors blend and reproduce the colors of the object.…

A more or less continued impression or image on the retina. H. Spencer.

to the action of light on sensitive bodies in the production of pictures, the fixation of images, and the like.

tions of the sun's diameter by photography, utilizing the common chord of two overlapping images.

The art of painting; representation by painting. [Obs.] Any well-expressed image . . . either in picture or sculpture. Sir H. Wotton.

Of or pertaining to a pilgrim, or pilgrims; making pilgrimages. "With pilgrim steps." Milton. Pilgrim fathers, a name popularly given to the one hundred and two English colonists who landed from the Mayflower and made the first settlement in New England at Plymouth in

To wander as a pilgrim; to go on a pilgrimage. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

ion in which characters are represented by dialogue and action. A play ought to be a just image of human nature. Dryden.

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.

ent, similar to the phenakistoscope, for presenting to view, or projecting upon a screen, images the natural motions of real objects.

ecree; to preëlect. Whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son. Rom. viii. 29.

A method of printing, in which the image is fully brought out by the direct actinic action of light without subsequent development by means of chemicals.

rtain angle, and the two parts again joined with transparent cement, so that the ordinary image produced by double refraction is thrown out of the field by total reflection from the internal cemented surface, and the extraordinary, or polarized, image alone is transmitted.

ative relation; ratio; as, the proportion of the parts of a building, or of the body. The image of Christ, made after his own proportion. Ridley. Formed in the best proportions of her sex. Sir W. Scott. Documents are authentic and facts are true precisely in proportion to the support which they afford to his theory. Ma…

y, a pseudoscope; having its parts appearing with the relief reversed; as, a pseudoscopic image.