Definition

• 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.