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Driftwood :: Driftwood (n.) Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water.

Cockmatch :: Cockmatch (n.) A cockfight.

Body :: Body (n.) A figure that has length, breadth, and thickness; any solid figure..

Patch :: Patch (n.) Fig.: Anything regarded as a patch; a small piece of ground; a tract; a plot; as, scattered patches of trees or growing corn..

Daric :: Daric (n.) A silver coin of about 86 grains, having the figure of an archer, and hence, in modern times, called a daric..

Look :: Look (v. i.) To show one's self in looking, as by leaning out of a window; as, look out of the window while I speak to you. Sometimes used figuratively..

Tilt :: Tilt (v. i.) To run or ride, and thrust with a lance; to practice the military game or exercise of thrusting with a lance, as a combatant on horseback; to joust; also, figuratively, to engage in any combat or movement resembling that of horsemen tilting with lances..

Atlantes :: Atlantes (n. pl.) Figures or half figures of men, used as columns to support an entablature; -- called also telamones. See Caryatides..

Roundish :: Roundish (a.) Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure..

Thread :: Thread (n.) Fig.: Something continued in a long course or tenor; a,s the thread of life, or of a discourse..

Incline :: Incline (v. i.) Fig.: To lean or tend, in an intellectual or moral sense; to favor an opinion, a course of conduct, or a person; to have a propensity or inclination; to be disposed..

Clutch :: Clutch (n.) To seize, clasp, or gripe with the hand, hands, or claws; -- often figuratively; as, to clutch power..

Lithophane :: Lithophane (n.) Porcelain impressed with figures which are made distinct by transmitted light, -- as when hung in a window, or used as a lamp shade..

Arcadia :: Arcadia (n.) Fig.: Any region or scene of simple pleasure and untroubled quiet.

Petrifaction :: Petrifaction (n.) Fig.: Hardness; callousness; obduracy.

Preponderate :: Preponderate (v. i.) To exceed in weight; hence, to incline or descend, as the scale of a balance; figuratively, to exceed in influence, power, etc.; hence; to incline to one side; as, the affirmative side preponderated..

Oblong :: Oblong (n.) A rectangular figure longer than it is broad; hence, any figure longer than it is broad..

Ground :: Ground (n.) In sculpture, a flat surface upon which figures are raised in relief..

Point :: Point (n.) A mark of punctuation; a character used to mark the divisions of a composition, or the pauses to be observed in reading, or to point off groups of figures, etc.; a stop, as a comma, a semicolon, and esp. a period; hence, figuratively, an end, or conclusion..

Dendrite :: Dendrite (n.) A stone or mineral on or in which are branching figures resembling shrubs or trees, produced by a foreign mineral, usually an oxide of manganese, as in the moss agate; also, a crystallized mineral having an arborescent form, e. g., gold or silver; an arborization..

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