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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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8 words match “MODELING”

MODELING n.
ing, drawing, etc., the expression or indication of solid form. [Written also modelling.] Modeling plane, a small plane for planing rounded objects. -- Modeling wax, beeswax melted with a little Venice turpentine, or other resinous material, and tinted with coloring matter, usually red, -- used in modeling.…
CEROPLASTIC a.
Relating to the art of modeling in wax.
CEROPLASTICS; CEROPLASTY n.
The art of modeling in wax.
FIGURE n.
The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modeling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body; as, a figure in bronze; a figure cut in marble. A coin that bears the figure of an angel. Shak.
NOVATION n.
A substitution of a new debt for an old one; also, the remodeling of an old obligation.
PHELLOPLASTICS n.
Art of modeling in cork.
PLASTIC a.
Pertaining or appropriate to, or characteristic of, molding or modeling; produced by, or appearing as if produced by, molding or modeling; -- said of sculpture and the kindred arts, in distinction from painting and the graphic arts. Medallions . . . fraught with the plastic beauty and grace of the palmy days of Italian…
THORACOPLASTY n.
A remodeling or reshaping of the thorax; especially, the operation of removing the ribs, so as to obliterate the pleural cavity in cases of empyema.