SCULP'TURE, n. [L. sculptura.]
1. The art of carving, cutting or hewing wood or stone into images of men, beasts or other things. Sculpture is a generic term, including carving or statuary and engraving.
2. Carved work.
There too, in living sculpture, might be See N the mad affection of the Cretan queen.
Dryden.
3. The art of engraving on copper.
SCULP'TURE, v.t. To carve; to engrave; to form images or figures with the chisel on wood, stone or metal.
