‖n. [ L., blessed. See Benedict, a. ] The song of Zacharias at the birth of John the Baptist (Luke i. 68); -- so named from the first word of the Latin version. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Depictured p. pr. & vb. n. Depicturing. ] To make a picture of; to paint; to picture; to depict. [ 1913 Webster ]

Several persons were depictured in caricature. Fielding. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. L. Dicta E. Dictums [ L., neuter of dictus, p. p. of dicere to say. See Diction, and cf. Ditto. ] 1. An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; an apothegm. [ 1913 Webster ]

A class of critical dicta everywhere current. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) (a) A judicial opinion expressed by judges on points that do not necessarily arise in the case, and are not involved in it. (b) (French Law) The report of a judgment made by one of the judges who has given it. Bouvier. (c) An arbitrament or award. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., fr. icere, ictum, to strike. ] 1. (Pros.) The stress of voice laid upon accented syllable of a word. Cf. Arsis. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) A stroke or blow, as in a sunstroke, the sting of an insect, pulsation of an artery, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pictured; impressed. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A tableau in which persons take part; also, specif., such a tableau as imitating a work of art. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. i. to pass urine through the ureter; to urinate. [ Medical ]
Syn. -- urinate, piddle, puddle, piss, pee, pee-pee, make water, relieve oneself, take a leak, spend a penny, wee, wee-wee, make, pass water. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. micturire to desire to make water, v. desid. fr. mingere, mictum, to make water. ] The act of voiding urine; urination; also, a morbidly frequent passing of the urine, in consequence of disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ Latin. ] Remarkably; strange to say; marvelous to relate. [ PJC ]

. 1. A series of pictures on a strip of film, taken at regular intervals in rapid succession (now usually 24 frames per second for ordinary work) by a special camera, intended to capture the image of objects in motion. [ PJC ]

2. the display of the images captured on a motion picture{ 1 }, presented to the eye in very rapid succession by projection from a special apparatus (a movie projector), with shows some or all of the objects in the picture represented in changing positions, producing, by persistence of vision, the optical effect of a continuous picture in which the objects appear to move as they did in the original scene.
Syn. -- movie, moving picture, flick. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

3. The conceptual or informational content of a motion picture{ 1 }; the actions or events represented in a motion picture{ 1 }; the story line of a movie. “One of the great punch lines in motion picture history is ‘Round up the usual suspects.' from ‘Casablanca'.” [ PJC ]

. same as motion picture. [ PJC ]

n.; pl. obiter dicta (Law), An incidental and collateral opinion uttered by a judge. See Dictum, n., 2 (a). [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To surpass nature in the picture or representation of. [ Obs. ] “O'erpicturing that Venus.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., a painting. ] (Zool.) Pattern of coloration. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being pictured, or represented by a picture. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pictorial. [ R. ] Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A picture. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. pictura, fr. pingere, pictum, to paint: cf. F. peinture. See Paint. ] 1. The art of painting; representation by painting. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Any well-expressed image . . . either in picture or sculpture. Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, produced by means of painting, drawing, engraving, photography, etc.; a representation in colors. By extension, a figure; a model. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

The young king's picture . . . in virgin wax. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An image or resemblance; a representation, either to the eye or to the mind; that which, by its likeness, brings vividly to mind some other thing; as, a child is the picture of his father; the man is the picture of grief. [ 1913 Webster ]

My eyes make pictures when they are shut. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Picture is often used adjectively, or in forming self-explaining compounds; as, picture book or picture-book, picture frame or picture-frame, picture seller or picture-seller, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Animated picture, a moving picture. --
Picture gallery, a gallery, or large apartment, devoted to the exhibition of pictures. --
Picture red, a rod of metal tube fixed to the walls of a room, from which pictures are hung. --
Picture writing. (a) The art of recording events, or of expressing messages, by means of pictures representing the actions or circumstances in question. Tylor. (b) The record or message so represented; as, the picture writing of the American Indians. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Picture, Painting. Every kind of representation by drawing or painting is a picture, whether made with oil colors, water colors, pencil, crayons, or India ink; strictly, a painting is a picture made by means of colored paints, usually applied moist with a brush. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Pictured p. pr. & vb. n. Picturing. ] To draw or paint a resemblance of; to delineate; to represent; to form or present an ideal likeness of; to bring before the mind. “I . . . do picture it in my mind.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have not seen him so pictured. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Furnished with pictures; represented by a picture or pictures; as, a pictured scene. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who makes pictures; a painter. [ R. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ It. pittoresco: cf. F. pittoresque. See Pictorial. ] Forming, or fitted to form, a good or pleasing picture; representing with the clearness or ideal beauty appropriate to a picture; expressing that peculiar kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture, natural or artificial; graphic; vivid; as, a picturesque scene or attitude; picturesque language. [ 1913 Webster ]

What is picturesque as placed in relation to the beautiful and the sublime? It is . . . the characteristic pushed into a sensible excess. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Pic`tur*esque"ly, adv. -- Pic`tur*esque"ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Somewhat picturesque. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Picturized p. pr. & vb. n. Picturizing. ] [ R. ] 1. To picture. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To adorn with pictures. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To victual again. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ringi, rictus, to open wide the mouth, to gape. ] A gaping. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., the aperture of the mouth. ] The gape of the mouth, as of birds; -- often resricted to the corners of the mouth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. strictura a contraction, from stringere, strictum, to draw tight: cf. F. stricture. See Strict. ] 1. Strictness. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A man of stricture and firm abstinence. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A stroke; a glance; a touch. [ Obs. ] Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A touch of adverse criticism; censure. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ I have ] given myself the liberty of these strictures by way of reflection on all and every passage. Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Med.) A localized morbid contraction of any passage of the body. Cf. Organic stricture, and Spasmodic stricture, under Organic, and Spasmodic. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Med.) Affected with a stricture; as, a strictured duct. [ 1913 Webster ]

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n. 1. Food; -- now used chiefly in the plural. See Victuals. 2 Chron. xi. 23. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

He was not able to keep that place three days for lack of victual. Knolles. [ 1913 Webster ]

There came a fair-hair'd youth, that in his hand
Bare victual for the mowers. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Short allowance of victual. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Grain of any kind. [ Scot. ] Jamieson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Victualed r Victualled; p. pr. & vb. n. Victualing or Victualling. ] To supply with provisions for subsistence; to provide with food; to store with sustenance; as, to victual an army; to victual a ship. [ 1913 Webster ]

I must go victual Orleans forthwith. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Victuals; food. [ R. ] “With my cargo of victualage.” C. Bronté. [ 1913 Webster ]

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n. [ F. victuailleur. ] [ Written also victualler. ] 1. One who furnishes victuals. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who keeps a house of entertainment; a tavern keeper; an innkeeper. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A vessel employed to carry provisions, usually for military or naval use; a provision ship. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. One who deals in grain; a corn factor. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Licensed victualer. See under Licensed. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to victuals, or provisions; supplying provisions; as, a victualing ship. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ OE. vitaille, OF. vitaille, F. victuaille, pl. victuailles, fr. L. victualia, pl. of. victualis belonging to living or nourishment, fr. victus nourishment, from vivere, victum, to live; akin to vivus living. See Vivid. ] Food for human beings, esp. when it is cooked or prepared for the table; that which supports human life; provisions; sustenance; meat; viands. [ 1913 Webster ]

Then had we plenty of victuals. Jer. xliv. 17. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L. ] (Zool.) Food; diet. [ 1913 Webster ]