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Numerate :: Numerate (v.) To divide off and read according to the rules of numeration; as, to numerate a row of figures..

Haurient :: Haurient (a.) In pale, with the head in chief; -- said of the figure of a fish, as if rising for air..

Figure :: Figure (n.) A pattern in cloth, paper, or other manufactured article; a design wrought out in a fabric; as, the muslin was of a pretty figure..

Subjected :: Subject (n.) The incident, scene, figure, group, etc., which it is the aim of the artist to represent..

Footing :: Footing (n.) The act of adding up a column of figures; the amount or sum total of such a column.

Poussette :: Poussette (n.) A movement, or part of a figure, in the contradance..

Tournure :: Tournure (n.) Turn; contour; figure.

Oval :: Oval (n.) A body or figure in the shape of an egg, or popularly, of an ellipse..

Orris :: Orris (n.) A peculiar pattern in which gold lace or silver lace is worked; especially, one in which the edges are ornamented with conical figures placed at equal distances, with spots between them..

Minute-jack :: Minute-jack (n.) A figure which strikes the hour on the bell of some fanciful clocks; -- called also jack of the clock house.

Zeugma :: Zeugma (n.) A figure by which an adjective or verb, which agrees with a nearer word, is, by way of supplement, referred also to another more remote; as, hic illius arma, hic currus fuit; where fuit, which agrees directly with currus, is referred also to arma..

Imprint :: Imprint (v. t.) To stamp or mark, as letters on paper, by means of type, plates, stamps, or the like; to print the mark (figures, letters, etc., upon something)..

Equilateral :: Equilateral (n.) A side exactly corresponding, or equal, to others; also, a figure of equal sides..

Pastorale :: Pastorale (n.) A kind of dance; a kind of figure used in a dance.

Ramification :: Ramification (n.) The production of branchlike figures.

Embossment :: Embossment (n.) A bosslike prominence; figure in relief; raised work; jut; protuberance; esp., a combination of raised surfaces having a decorative effect..

Syncope :: Syncopation (n.) The act of syncopating; a peculiar figure of rhythm, or rhythmical alteration, which consists in welding into one tone the second half of one beat with the first half of the beat which follows..

Defigure :: Defigure (v. t.) To delineate.

Fan :: Fan (n.) An instrument for cooling the person, made of feathers, paper, silk, etc., and often mounted on sticks all turning about the same pivot, so as when opened to radiate from the center and assume the figure of a section of a circle..

Epizeuxis :: Epizeuxis (n.) A figure by which a word is repeated with vehemence or emphasis, as in the following lines: -.

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