An imitation, representation, or similitude
of any person, thing, or act, sculptured, drawn, painted, or
otherwise made perceptible to the sight; a visible presentation; a
copy; a likeness; an effigy; a picture; a semblance.
Hence: The likeness of anything to which
worship is paid; an idol.
Show; appearance; cast.
A representation of anything to the mind;
a picture drawn by the fancy; a conception; an idea.
A picture, example, or
illustration, often taken from sensible objects, and used to
illustrate a subject; usually, an extended metaphor.
The figure or picture of any
object formed at the focus of a lens or mirror, by rays of light from
the several points of the object symmetrically refracted or reflected
to corresponding points in such focus] this may be received on a
screen, a photographic plate, or the retina of the eye, and viewed
directly by the eye, or with an eyeglass, as in the telescope and
microscope; the likeness of an object formed by reflection; as, to
see one's image in a mirror.
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