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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)



13 words match “SCULPTOR”

SCULPTOR n. 2 definitions
One who sculptures; one whose occupation is to carve statues, or works of sculpture.
BADIGEON n.
A cement or paste (as of plaster and freestone, or of sawdust and glue or lime) used by sculptors, builders, and workers in wood or stone, to fill holes, cover defects, or finish a surface.
CARVE v.
To exercise the trade of a sculptor or carver; to engrave or cut figures.
CIRCUMSTANCE n.
An event; a fact; a particular incident. The sculptor had in his thoughts the conqoeror weeping for new worlds, or the like circumstances in histery. Addison.
FLAT a.
producing figures by dots and lines made with a punching tool. Knight. -- Flat chisel, a sculptor's chisel for smoothing. -- Flat file, a file wider than its thickness, and of rectangular section. See File. -- Flat nail, a small, sharp-pointed, wrought nail, with a flat, thin head, larger than a tack. Knight. -- Fl…
GRADINE n.
A toothed chised by sculptors.
GRAVER n.
One who graves; an engraver or a sculptor; one whose occupation is te cut letters or figures in stone or other hard material.
IMAGE n.
- Image breaker, one who destroys images; an iconoclast. -- Image graver, Image maker, a sculptor. -- Image worship, the worship of images as symbols; iconolatry distinguished from idolatry; the worship of images themselves. -- Image Purkinje (Physics), the image of the retinal blood vessels projected in, not merely…
IMAGER n.
One who images or forms likenesses; a sculptor. [Obs.] Praxiteles was ennobled for a rare imager. Holland.
MARTELINE n.
A small hammer used by marble workers and sculptors.
RETOUCH n.
A partial reworking,as of a painting, a sculptor's clay model, or the like.
SCULPTRESS n.
A female sculptor.
VESTMENT n.
any priestly garment. "Royal vestiment." Chaucer. "Priests in holy vestments." Shak. The sculptor could not give vestments suitable to the quality of the persons represented. Dryden.