STATUES

Noun

statues

plural of statue

Noun

statues

A children's game in which the players have to stand still without moving.

Source: Wiktionary


STATUE

Stat"ue, n. Etym: [F., fr. L. statua (akin to stativus standing still), fr. stare, statum, to stand. See Stand.]

1. The likeness of a living being sculptured or modeled in some solid substance, as marble, bronze, or wax; an image; as, a statue of Hercules, or of a lion. I will raise her statue in pure gold. Shak.

2. A portrait. [Obs.] Massinger.

Stat"ue, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Statued; p. pr. & vb. n. Statuing.]

Definition: To place, as a statue; to form a statue of; to make into a statue. "The whole man becomes as if statued into stone and earth." Feltham.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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