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Defacer :: Defacer (n.) One who, or that which, defaces or disfigures..

Chiliahedron :: Chiliahedron (n.) A figure bounded by a thousand plane surface.

Personification :: Personification (n.) A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopop/ia; as, the floods clap their hands..

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..

Figured :: Figured (a.) Free and florid; as, a figured descant. See Figurate, 3..

Isocephalism :: Isocephalism (n.) A peculiarity in the design of bas-relief by which the heads of human figures are kept at the same height from the ground, whether the personages are seated, standing, or mounted on horseback; -- called also isokephaleia..

Congruity :: Congruity (n.) Coincidence, as that of lines or figures laid over one another..

Homography :: Homography (n.) A relation between two figures, such that to any point of the one corresponds one and but one point in the other, and vise versa. Thus, a tangent line rolling on a circle cuts two fixed tangents of the circle in two sets of points that are homographic..

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

Caryatid :: Caryatid (n.) A draped female figure supporting an entablature, in the place of a column or pilaster..

Figurate :: Figurate (a.) Of a definite form or figure.

Pip :: Pip (n.) One of the conventional figures or spots on playing cards, dominoes, etc..

Septangle :: Septangle (n.) A figure which has seven angles; a heptagon.

Entortilation :: Entortilation (n.) A turning into a circle; round figures.

Diagram :: Diagram (n.) A figure or drawing made to illustrate a statement, or facilitate a demonstration; a plan..

Swash :: Swash (v. t.) An oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work..

Allegory :: Allegory (n.) A figure representation which has a meaning beyond notion directly conveyed by the object painted or sculptured.

Delineate :: Delineate (v. t.) To indicate by lines drawn in the form or figure of; to represent by sketch, design, or diagram; to sketch out; to portray; to picture; in drawing and engraving, to represent in lines, as with the pen, pencil, or graver; hence, to represent with accuracy and minuteness. See Delineation..

Build :: Build (n.) Form or mode of construction; general figure; make; as, the build of a ship..

Digit :: Digit (n.) One of the ten figures or symbols, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, by which all numbers are expressed; -- so called because of the use of the fingers in counting and computing..

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