Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SCULP'TURE, n. [Fr.; L. sculptura.]

1. The art of curving, cutting or hewing wood or stone in 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 seen / The mad affection of the Cretan queen. – Dryden.
3. The art of engraving on copper.