picture (piktur)

t.; pret. and pp. pictured, ppr. picturing. [ Your death has eyes in 's head then; I have not seen him so pictured . Shak ., Cymbeline, v. 4. 185. An Attic frieze you give, a pictured song. Lowell, To Mi D. T. 2. To form a mental image or picture of; spread out before the mind's eye as in a picture. Do picture it in my mind. Spenser . Father Malachi Brennan, P. P. of Car rig a holt, was what I had often pictured to myself as the beau ideal of his Lever, Harry Lorrequer, vi. caste. 3. To depict or describe in words; give a picture or vivid description of. The animated strain of Pindar, where virtue is pictured in the succe ful strife of an athlete at the Isthmian games. Sumner , Orations, I. 143. picture-board (pik'tur-bord), n. A deceptive painting of any object or figure on a shaped plank, such as a fierce dog in a garden, a bird on a balcony, or a porcelain bowl on a bookcase. This conceit perhaps originated in Holland, but was prevalent in other countries of Europe in the eighteenth century.