sculpturesque (skulpturesk)

[ sc + -esque. + -esque.] Po e ing Po e ing the the ch character of sculp ture; resembling resembling sculpture; chiseled; hence, clean-cut and well-proportioned; statue-like; gra grand rather than beautiful or pretty: as, sculp turesque features. An impre ive woman, her figure was slim and sufficiently tall, her face rather emaciated, so that its sculpturesque beauty was the more pronounced. George Eliot , Daniel Deronda, xiii. They liv'd by scumming those Seas and shoars as Pyrats. Milton, Hist. Eng., ii. II. in trans . 11. To arise or be formed on the surface as foam or scum; be thrown up as scum. Golde and siluer was no more spared then thoughe it had rayned out of the clowdes, or scomed out of the sea. Berners, tr. of Froi art's Chron., II. xlix. 2. To be or become covered with scum: generally with over . Life and the interest of life have stagnated and scummed A. K. H. Boyd. over. 3t. To skim lightly: with over. Thou hast skumed ouer the schoole men, and of the froth of theyr folly made a dish of diuinitie brewe e which the dogges will not eate. Nashe , Pierce Penile e, p. 45.