Hypertext Webster Gateway: "statue"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Statue \Stat"ue\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Statued}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Statuing}.]
To place, as a statue; to form a statue of; to make into a
statue. ``The whole man becomes as if statued into stone and
earth.'' --Feltham.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Statue \Stat"ue\, n. [F., fr. L. statua (akin to stativus
standing still), fr. stare, statum, to stand. See {Stand}.]
1. The likeness of a living being sculptured or modeled in
some solid substance, as marble, bronze, or wax; an image;
as, a statue of Hercules, or of a lion.
I will raise her statue in pure gold. --Shak.
2. A portrait. [Obs.] --Massinger.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
statue
n : a sculpture representing a human or animal
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