or Busto, in sculpture, &c., a term used for the figure or portrait of a person in relief, shewing only the head, shoulders, and stomach, the arms being lopped off: it is usually placed on a pedestal or console.

Mr. Felibien observes, that though, in painting, one may say a figure appears in busto, yet it is not properly called a bust; that word being confined to things in relief. The bust is the same with what the Latins called herma, from the Greek hermes, Mercury, the image of that god being frequently represented in that manner by the Athenians.