1. (n.) 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.

2. (n.) A portrait.

3. (v. t.) To place, as a statue; to form a statue of; to make into a statue.

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