The face of things a frightful image bears.
Dryden.
4. A representation of anything to the mind; a picture drawn by the
fancy; a conception; an idea.
Can we conceive Image of aught delightful, soft, or great?
Prior.
5. (Rhet.) A picture, example, or illustration, often taken from
sensible objects, and used to illustrate a subject; usually, an
extended metaphor. Brande & C.
6. (Opt.) 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.
Electrical image. See under Electrical. -- Image breaker, one who
destroys images; an iconoclast. -- Image graver, Image maker, a
sculptor. -- Image worship, the worship of images as symbols;
iconolatry distinguished from idolatry; the worship of images
themselves. -- Image Purkinje (Physics), the image of the retinal blood
vessels projected in, not merely on, that membrane. -- Virtual image
(Optics), a point or system of points, on one side of a mirror or lens,
which, if it existed, would emit the system of rays which actually
exists on the other side of the mirror or lens. Clerk Maxwell.
Im"age (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Imaged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Imaging
(?).] 1. To represent or form an image of; as, the still lake imaged
the shore; the mirror imaged her figure. "Shrines of imaged saints." J.
Warton.
2. To represent to the mental vision; to form a likeness of by the
fancy or recollection; to imagine.
Condemn'd whole years in absence to deplore, And image charms he
must behold no more.
Pope.