A representation or similitude of any person or thing, formed of a material substance; as an image wrought out of stone, wood or wax. Whose is this image and superscription? Matthew 22:20.

Astatue.

An idol; the representation of any person or thing, that is an object of worship. The second commandment forbids the worship of images.

The likeness of any thing on canvas; a picture; a resemblance painted.

Any copy, representation or likeness. The child is the image of its mother.

Semblance; show; appearance.IV\ . The face of things a frightful image bears.

An idea; a representation of any thing to the mind; a conception; a picture drawn by fancy. Can we conceive . Image of aught delightful, soft or great?

In rhetoric, a lively description of any thing in discourse, which presents a kind of picture to the mind.

In optics, the figure of any object, made by rays of light proceeding from the several points of it. Thus a mirror reflects the image of a person standing before it, as does water in a vessel or stream, when undisturbed.

To imagine; to copy by the imagination; to form a likeness in the mind by the fancy or recollection. And image charms he must behold no more.