| sculpt | (v) create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material, Syn. sculpture, Example: sculpt a swan out of a block of ice | | sculpt | (v) shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it, Syn. sculpture, grave, Example: She is sculpting the block of marble into an image of her husband | | sculptor | (n) an artist who creates sculptures, Syn. sculpturer, carver, statue maker | | sculptor | (n) a faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near Phoenix and Cetus | | sculptress | (n) a woman sculptor | | sculptural | (adj) relating to or consisting of sculpture, Example: sculptural embellishments | | sculpture | (n) a three-dimensional work of plastic art | | sculpture | (n) creating figures or designs in three dimensions, Syn. carving |
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| Sculptile | a. [ L. sculptilis. See Sculptor. ] Formed by carving; graven; as, sculptile images. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Sculptor | n. [ L. sculptor, fr. sculpere, sculptum, to carve; cf. scalpere to cut, carve, scratch, and Gr. &unr_; to carve: cf. F. sculpteur. ] 1. One who sculptures; one whose occupation is to carve statues, or works of sculpture. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. Hence, an artist who designs works of sculpture, his first studies and his finished model being usually in a plastic material, from which model the marble is cut, or the bronze is cast. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Sculptress | n. A female sculptor. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Sculptural | a. Of or pertaining to sculpture. G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Sculpture | n. [ L. sculptura: cf. F. sculpture. ] 1. The art of carving, cutting, or hewing wood, stone, metal, etc., into statues, ornaments, etc., or into figures, as of men, or other things; hence, the art of producing figures and groups, whether in plastic or hard materials. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. Carved work modeled of, or cut upon, wood, stone, metal, etc. [ 1913 Webster ] There, too, in living sculpture, might be seen
The mad affection of the Cretan queen. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Sculpture | v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Sculptured p. pr. & vb. n. Sculpturing. ] To form with the chisel on, in, or from, wood, stone, or metal; to carve; to engrave. [ 1913 Webster ]
Sculptured tortoise (Zool.), a common North American wood tortoise (Glyptemys insculpta). The shell is marked with strong grooving and ridges which resemble sculptured figures. [ 1913 Webster ]
| | Sculpturesque | a. After the manner of sculpture; resembling, or relating to, sculpture. [ 1913 Webster ] |
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