sculpture (skulptur)

[ Peloponnesian, Phidian, and Rhodian. As the materials used for writing in the first rude ages were only wood or stone, the convenience of sculpture required that the strokes should run chiefly in straight lines. Five Pieces of Runic Poetry (1763), Pref.. a shaping art, of which the busine is to imitate natural objects, and principally the human body, by reproducing in solid form either their true Sculpture,. Foliate Sculpture, 13th century. From Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris. vent i on ali zed more or le from foliage, or based on the fundamental forms or habit of vegetation. Greek, Renai ance, etc., sculpture. See the qualifying words.Rhodian school of sculpture. See Rhodian. sculpture (skulptūr), v. t.; pret. and pp. sculp tured, ppr. sculpturing. [ Did anything more aggravate the crime of Jeroboam's profane apostasy than that he chose to have his clergy the scum and refuse of his whole land? Hooker, Eccles. Polity, v. 81. A scum of Bretons, and base lackey peasants. Shak., Rich. III., v. 3. 317. Such rascals, Who are the scum and excrements of men! B. Jonson, Staple of News, iv. 1. We are most miserably dejected, the scum of the world. Burton , Anat. of Mel., p. 362. scum (skum), v.; pret. and pp. scummed, ppr. scumming. [Early mod. E. also skum, scom; Oon boileth water salt and skommeth [it] clene, The rin to colde his peres wol he trie. Palladius , Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 90. Some scumd the dro e that from the metall came. Spenser, F. Q., II. vii. 36. A second multitude With wondrous art founded the ma y ore, Severing each kind, and scumm'd the bullion dro . Milton , P. L., i. 704. IMG:content-0406.png:[graphic] with the chisel or other tool on or in wood, 2t. To sweep over; move swiftly upon; skim. stone, or metal. On the base [of the Herakles] is sculptured a composition in very low relief, representing the capture of the cattle of Geryon. C. T. Newton, Art and Archæol., p. 308. Fair with sculptured stories it was wrought, By lapse of time unto dim ruin brought. William Morris, Earthly Paradise, I. 325. 2. To ornament or cover with sculpture or carved work; carve. Gold, silver, ivory vases sculptured high. Pope , Imit. of Horace, II. ii. 264. sculptured (skulptūrd), a. [ sculpture + -ed2.] In zoöl . and bot ., having elevated or impre ed marks on the surface: as, sculptured elytra; sculptured seeds; a sculptured carapace. - Sculptured tortoise, a common land-tortoise of the United States, Glyptemys insculpt a .