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Formula :: Formula (n.) A symbolic expression (by means of letters, figures, etc.) of the constituents or constitution of a compound..

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

Image :: Image (n.) The figure or picture of any object formed at the focus of a lens or mirror, by rays of light from the several points of the object symmetrically refracted or reflected to corresponding points in such focus; this may be received on a screen, a photographic plate, or the retina of the eye, and viewed directly by the eye, or with an eyeglass, as in the telescope and microscope; the likeness of an object formed by reflection; as, to see one's image in a mirror..

Print :: Print (n.) A printed cloth; a fabric figured by stamping, especially calico or cotton cloth..

Figure :: Figure (n.) A character or symbol representing a number; a numeral; a digit; as, 1, 2,3, etc..

Phantasmagoria :: Phantasmagoria (n.) An optical effect produced by a magic lantern. The figures are painted in transparent colors, and all the rest of the glass is opaque black. The screen is between the spectators and the instrument, and the figures are often made to appear as in motion, or to merge into one another..

Pathopoela :: Pathopoela (n.) A speech, or figure of speech, designed to move the passion..

Fingered :: Fingered (a.) Marked with figures designating which finger should be used for each note.

Trapezoid :: Trapezoid (n.) A plane four-sided figure, having two sides parallel to each other..

Rider :: Rider (n.) A Dutch gold coin having the figure of a man on horseback stamped upon it.

Notation :: Notation (n.) The act or practice of recording anything by marks, figures, or characters..

Stereotype :: Stereotomy (n.) The science or art of cutting solids into certain figures or sections, as arches, and the like; especially, the art of stonecutting..

Calico :: Calico (n.) Cotton cloth printed with a figured pattern.

Peak :: Peak (v. i.) To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sicky..

Intaglio :: Intaglio (n.) A cutting or engraving; a figure cut into something, as a gem, so as to make a design depressed below the surface of the material; hence, anything so carved or impressed, as a gem, matrix, etc.; -- opposed to cameo. Also used adjectively..

Disfiguration :: Disfiguration (n.) The act of disfiguring, or the state of being disfigured; defacement; deformity; disfigurement..

Subscript :: Subscript (a.) Written below or underneath; as, iota subscript. (See under Iota.) Specifically (Math.), said of marks, figures, or letters (suffixes), written below and usually to the right of other letters to distinguish them; as, a, n, 2, in the symbols Xa, An, Y2. See Suffix, n., 2, and Subindex..

Anubis :: Anubis (n.) An Egyptian deity, the conductor of departed spirits, represented by a human figure with the head of a dog or fox..

Pall :: Pall (n.) A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y..

Circumference :: Circumference (n.) The line that goes round or encompasses a circular figure; a periphery.

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