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Picture :: Picture (n.) A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, produced by means of painting, drawing, engraving, photography, etc.; a representation in colors. By extension, a figure; a model..

Japan :: "Japan (n.) Work varnished and figured in the Japanese manner; also, the varnish or lacquer used in japanning..

Rhetorize :: Rhetorize (v. t.) To represent by a figure of rhetoric, or by personification..

Graffiti :: Graffiti (n. pl.) Inscriptions, figure drawings, etc., found on the walls of ancient sepulchers or ruins, as in the Catacombs, or at Pompeii..

Shot :: Shot (a.) Woven in such a way as to produce an effect of variegation, of changeable tints, or of being figured; as, shot silks. See Shoot, v. t., 8..

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

Lineament :: Lineament (n.) One of the outlines, exterior features, or distinctive marks, of a body or figure, particularly of the face; feature; form; mark; -- usually in the plural..

Aporia :: Aporia (n.) A figure in which the speaker professes to be at a loss what course to pursue, where to begin to end, what to say, etc..

Transfigurate :: Transfigurate (v. t.) To transfigure; to transform.

Asterisk :: Asterisk (n.) The figure of a star, thus, /, used in printing and writing as a reference to a passage or note in the margin, to supply the omission of letters or words, or to mark a word or phrase as having a special character..

Flourish :: Flourish (n.) A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure.

Widmanstatten Figures :: Widmanstatten figures () Certain figures appearing on etched meteoric iron; -- so called after A. B. Widmanstatten, of Vienna, who first described them in 1808. See the Note and Illust. under Meteorite..

Enorthotrope :: Enorthotrope (n.) An optical toy; a card on which confused or imperfect figures are drawn, but which form to the eye regular figures when the card is rapidly revolved. See Thaumatrope..

Configuration :: Configuration (n.) Form, as depending on the relative disposition of the parts of a thing' shape; figure..

Tapet :: Tapet (n.) Worked or figured stuff; tapestry.

Amphicome :: Amphicome (n.) A kind of figured stone, rugged and beset with eminences, anciently used in divination..

Bosh :: Bosh (n.) Figure; outline; show.

Trigon :: Trigon (n.) A figure having three angles; a triangle.

Paronomasia :: Paronomasia (n.) A play upon words; a figure by which the same word is used in different senses, or words similar in sound are set in opposition to each other, so as to give antithetical force to the sentence; punning..

Type :: Type (v. t.) To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure..

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