The art or practice of shaping figures or designs in the round or in relief, as by chiseling marble, modeling clay, or casting in metal, The art of carving, cutting, or hewing wood, stone, metal, etc., into statues, ornaments, etc., or into figures, as of men, or other things; hence, the art of producing figures and groups, whether in plastic or hard materials, creating figures or designs in three dimensions, verb_ create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material, shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it, To fashion something into a three-dimensional figure, transitive verb_ To form with the chisel on, in, or from, wood, stone, or metal; to carve; to engrave, (Zo”l.) a common North American wood tortoise (Glyptemys insculpta). The shell is marked with strong grooving and ridges which resemble sculptured figures, intransitive verb_ To fashion (stone, bronze, or wood, for example) into a three-dimensional figure, To represent in sculpture, To make sculptures or a sculpture