Hypertext Webster Gateway: "sculptured"

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)

sculptured
adj 1: cut into a desired shape; "graven images"; "sculptured
representations" [syn: {graven}, {sculpted}]
2: resembling sculpture; "her finely modeled features";
"rendered with...vivid sculptural effect"; "the
sculpturesque beauty of the athletes' bodies" [syn: {modeled},
{sculptural}, {sculpturesque}]


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