Im·age n.
 1. An imitation, representation, or similitude of any person, thing, or act, sculptured, drawn, painted, or otherwise made perceptible to the sight; a visible presentation; a copy; a likeness; an effigy; a picture; a semblance.
    Even like a stony image, cold and numb.   --Shak.
    Whose is this image and superscription?   --Matt. xxii. 20.
    This play is the image of a murder done in Vienna.   --Shak.
    And God created man in his own image.   --Gen. i. 27.
 2. Hence: The likeness of anything to which worship is paid; an idol.
    Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, . . . thou shalt not bow down thyself to them.   --Ex. xx. 4, 5.
 3. Show; appearance; cast.
    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.
 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.