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Fanciful :: Fanciful (a.) Conceived in the fancy; not consistent with facts or reason; abounding in ideal qualities or figures; as, a fanciful scheme; a fanciful theory..

Plaster :: Plaster (n.) Calcined gypsum, or plaster of Paris, especially when ground, as used for making ornaments, figures, moldings, etc.; or calcined gypsum used as a fertilizer..

Heptagon :: Heptagon (n.) A plane figure consisting of seven sides and having seven angles.

Impress :: Impress (v. t.) To produce by pressure, as a mark, stamp, image, etc.; to imprint (a mark or figure upon something)..

Semblance :: Semblance (a.) Seeming; appearance; show; figure; form.

Device :: Device (n.) An emblematic design, generally consisting of one or more figures with a motto, used apart from heraldic bearings to denote the historical situation, the ambition, or the desire of the person adopting it. See Cognizance..

Deform :: Deform (v. t.) To spoil the form of; to mar in form; to misshape; to disfigure.

Diaper :: Diaper (v. t.) To ornament with figures, etc., arranged in the pattern called diaper, as cloth in weaving..

Uniformity :: Uniformity (n.) Similitude between the parts of a whole; as, the uniformity of sides in a regular figure; beauty is said to consist in uniformity with variety..

Contour :: Contour (n.) The outline of a figure or body, or the line or lines representing such an outline; the line that bounds; periphery..

Prefigure :: Prefigure (v. t.) To show, suggest, or announce, by antecedent types and similitudes; to foreshadow..

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..

Mar :: Mar (v.) To make defective; to do injury to, esp. by cutting off or defacing a part; to impair; to disfigure; to deface..

Quadrilateral :: Quadrilateral (n.) A plane figure having four sides, and consequently four angles; a quadrangular figure; any figure formed by four lines..

Clock :: Clock (v. t.) To ornament with figured work, as the side of a stocking..

Oviform :: Oviform (a.) Having the form or figure of an egg; egg-shaped; as, an oviform leaf..

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

Parqueted :: Parqueted (a.) Formed in parquetry; inlaid with wood in small and differently colored figures.

Inversion :: Inversion (n.) A peculiar method of transformation, in which a figure is replaced by its inverse figure. Propositions that are true for the original figure thus furnish new propositions that are true in the inverse figure. See Inverse figures, under Inverse..

Stenoderm :: Stenciler (n.) One who paints or colors in figures by means of stencil.

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