A sculptured, carved, or moulded figure of an imaginary creature having a human head and breast combined with the body of a lion.

A representation of Hercules or a strong man.

One of a number of little images in niches on a funeral monument, representing mourners.

A misreading of Ophiouchus in a 1714 edition of John Aubrey's Miscellanies, printed as Optriouch? (where the question mark represents a…

The quality or fact of being pastoral (pastoral, n. 2) in character; an instance of this; (also) a ceramic figure of a shepherd or shepherdess.

A medieval carved stone female figure sometimes found on churches or castles in Britain and Ireland (see quot. 1934). Also elliptical, as sheela, s…

An image of a person at prayer with arms outstretched. Also attributive: designating such a figure or posture.

A sculptured representation of a youth.

Each of three carved monkeys, one depicted with its paws over its mouth (usually taken as connoting ‘speak no evil’), one with its paws over its eyes…

A statue or figure of a gnome, esp. one placed in a garden. Cf. garden gnome n. at garden, n. compounds 7.