·noun A large pictorial sketch, as in a journal or magazine; ·esp. a pictorial caricature; as, the cartoons of "Puck.".
II. Cartoon ·noun A design or study drawn of the full size, to serve as a model for transferring or copying;
— used in the making of mosaics, tapestries, fresco pantings and the like; as, the cartoons of Raphael.