picture writing

Anthropology: 1. The art of recording events and sending me ages by means of pictures representing the things or actions in question. ( Tylor .) It differs from the hieroglyphics of the Egyptians, in that none of the pictures are phoneti. piddingtonite 2. The record of an event, or a me age sent, by a pictorial representation. "The picture-writings are not only similar to one another, but are like what children make untaught, even in civilized countries." -Tylor: Early Hist . Mankind (ed. 1878), p. 88. pic-ture, v. t. [PICTURE, 8.] 1. To paint or draw a picture, likene , or representation of; to represent by painting; to represent pictorially. "Where your true image pictured lies." Shakesp.: Sonnet 24. 2. To bring or form before the mind's eye; to form an ideal representation of; to image. 3. To describe in a vivid manner; to depict vividly. "The frolics of the bear-garden most vividly pictured ," -Knight: Pict. Hist. Eng . , ii. 875. 4. To represent, to describe. "Justice indeed is pictured blind."- South : Sermons, vol. vii., ser. 13. 5. To draw or form pictures or representations of things on. "The pictured arras of Lombardy decorated the walls." Lytton: Rienzi, bk. i., ch. iv. pic'-ture-like, a. [Eng. picture; -like.] Like a picture; after the manner of a picture. "It was no better than picture like to hang by the wall." -Shakesp.: Coriolanus , i. 3. †pic-tu-rer, s. [Eng. pictur (e); -er.] A painter. "Let me goe to the picturers , I see goodly faces and am never the fayrer."- Bp . Hall: Contempl.; Zacheus. pic-tu-rěsque' (que as k), a. & s. [Ital. pit to resco , from pittura =a picture; Fr. pit to res que .] A. As adjective : 1. Forming, or suited for, a pleasing picture; having that quality which comprises the materials for a good picture, natural or artificial. "You have views of some palace, or church, or square, or fountain, the most picturesque and noble one can imag ine."-Gray: Letter from Rome , April, 1740. 2. Abounding with vivid and striking imagery or ideas; graphic, vivid; as, picturesque language. B. As subst.: That which is picturesque; that which comprises the materials for a good picture, natural or artificial, consisting of such objects as prosent a variety of colors, and an agreeable diversity of light and shade, and are found in what is IMG:content-1048.png:[blocks in formation] "That waked a picture squish thought." †pic'-tu-rize, v. t. [Eng. pictur (e); -ize.] To picture; to represent in or by a picture; to form into a picture. pi-cul, s. [Chin.] A Chinese weight of 1334 lbs. It is divided into 100 catties, or 1,600 taels. Also called Tan. pic-u-lět, s. [English dim in., from Latin pic us (q. v.).] Ornithology: 1. Sing .: The genus Picumnus. 2. Pl .: The sub-family Picumnine (q. v.). pi-cum-ni-næ, s. pl . [Mod. Latin picumn (us); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -inæ .] Ornith: Piculets; a sub-family of Picide. Bill short, straight, compre ed; wings rounded; tail short, feathers broad, rounded at the extremity. Found in the warmer parts of both hemispheres. pi-cum-nus, s. (A Latin deity, the personification of the woodpecker.] Ornith.: The typical genus of the Picumninse (q.v.). Habitat, Tropical Asia. More usually a genus of Picidæ (q. v.). pi-cus, s. [Lat. a woodpecker.] 1. Ornith.: Woodpecker (q. v.); the typical genus of the family Picide (q. v.), with forty-two species, ranging over the Pale arctic, Oriental, Nearctic, and Neo tropical regions. Bill cuneate, cylindrical; culmen, from which the lateral ridges are removed, straight. 2. Palæont.: From the Miocene (?) onward. pid-ding-ton-ite, s. [After Piddington, who first described it; suff. -ite ( Min . ).] Min.: An orthorhombic mineral constituting the ash-gray ma of the Shalka meteoric stone. Hardne , 6'5; specific gravity, 3412; fracture resinous; pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, æ, IMG:content-1049.png:[blocks in formation] 3. To pick at table; to eat daintily or squeam ishly or without appetite. 4. To make water; to urinate.