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Design :: Design (n.) To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw.

Balloon :: Balloon (n.) The outline inclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.

Delineation :: Delineation (n.) The act of representing, portraying, or describing, as by lines, diagrams, sketches, etc.; drawing an outline; as, the delineation of a scene or face; in drawing and engraving, representation by means of lines, as distinguished from representation by means of tints and shades; accurate and minute representation, as distinguished from art that is careless of details, or subordinates them excessively..

Skeleton :: Skeleton (n.) The heads and outline of a literary production, especially of a sermon..

Retrace :: Retrace (v. t.) To trace over again, or renew the outline of, as a drawing; to draw again..

Line :: Line (n.) The exterior limit of a figure, plat, or territory; boundary; contour; outline..

Invected :: Invected (a.) Having a border or outline composed of semicircles with the convexity outward; -- the opposite of engrailed.

Soft :: Soft (superl.) Having, or consisting of, a gentle curve or curves; not angular or abrupt; as, soft outlines..

Sketchy :: Sketchy (a.) Containing only an outline or rough form; being in the manner of a sketch; incomplete.

Sierra :: Sierra (n.) A ridge of mountain and craggy rocks, with a serrated or irregular outline; as, the Sierra Nevada..

Outline :: Outline (v. t.) To draw the outline of.

Round :: Round (a.) Having a curved outline or form; especially, one like the arc of a circle or an ellipse, or a portion of the surface of a sphere; rotund; bulging; protuberant; not angular or pointed; as, a round arch; round hills..

Circumscription :: Circumscription (n.) The exterior line which determines the form or magnitude of a body; outline; periphery.

Quadrate :: Quadrate (a.) A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square..

Contour :: Contour (n.) The outline of a horizontal section of the ground, or of works of fortification..

Gonys :: Gonys (n.) The keel or lower outline of a bird's bill, so far as the mandibular rami are united..

Camera Obscura :: Camera obscura () An apparatus in which the images of external objects, formed by a convex lens or a concave mirror, are thrown on a paper or other white surface placed in the focus of the lens or mirror within a darkened chamber, or box, so that the outlines may be traced..

Outline :: Outline (n.) Fig.: A sketch of any scheme; a preliminary or general indication of a plan, system, course of thought, etc.; as, the outline of a speech..

Clear-cut :: Clear-cut (a.) Having a sharp, distinct outline, like that of a cameo..

Outlinear :: Outlinear (a.) Of or pertaining to an outline; being in, or forming, an outline..

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