Hypertext Webster Gateway: "sculpture"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sculpture \Sculp"ture\ (?; 135), 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.
2. Carved work modeled of, or cut upon, wood, stone, metal,
etc.
There, too, in living sculpture, might be seen The
mad affection of the Cretan queen. --Dryden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sculpture \Sculp"ture\ (?; 135), 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.
{Sculptured tortoise} (Zo["o]l.), a common North American
wood tortoise ({Glyptemys insculpta}). The shell is marked
with strong grooving and ridges which resemble sculptured
figures.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
sculpture
n 1: a three-dimensional work of plastic art
2: making figures or designs in three dimensions [syn: {carving}]
v 1: create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material;
"sculpt a swan out of a block of ice" [syn: {sculpt}]
2: shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at
it; "She is sculpting the block of marble into an image of
her husband" [syn: {sculpt}, {grave}]
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