(n.) 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.
(n.) Hence: The likeness of anything to which worship is paid; an
idol.
(n.) Show; appearance; cast.
(n.) A representation of anything to the mind; a picture drawn by
the fancy; a conception; an idea.
(n.) A picture, example, or illustration, often taken from
sensible objects, and used to illustrate a subject; usually, an
extended metaphor.
(n.) 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.
(v. t.) To represent or form an image of; as, the still lake
imaged the shore; the mirror imaged her figure.
(v. t.) To represent to the mental vision; to form a likeness of
by the fancy or recollection; to imagine.
