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Sort :: Sort (n.) Letters, figures, points, marks, spaces, or quadrats, belonging to a case, separately considered..

Frostwork :: Frostwork (n.) The figurework, often fantastic and delicate, which moisture sometimes forms in freezing, as upon a window pane or a flagstone..

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

Figure :: Figure (n.) To embellish.

Roundel :: Roundel (a.) Anything having a round form; a round figure; a circle.

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

Motive :: Motive (n.) The theme or subject; a leading phrase or passage which is reproduced and varied through the course of a comor a movement; a short figure, or melodic germ, out of which a whole movement is develpoed. See also Leading motive, under Leading..

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

Petroglyphy :: Petroglyphy (n.) The art or operation of carving figures or inscriptions on rock or stone.

Mark :: Mark (n.) A visible sign or impression made or left upon anything; esp., a line, point, stamp, figure, or the like, drawn or impressed, so as to attract the attention and convey some information or intimation; a token; a trace..

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

Match :: Match (v. i.) To be of equal, or similar, size, figure, color, or quality; to tally; to suit; to correspond; as, these vases match..

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

Squat :: Squat (a.) Short and thick, like the figure of an animal squatting..

Zoophorous :: Zoophorous (n.) The part between the architrave and cornice; the frieze; -- so called from the figures of animals carved upon it.

Column :: Column (n.) A perpendicular line of figures.

Type :: Type (n.) A figure or representation of something to come; a token; a sign; a symbol; -- correlative to antitype.

Anorthoscope :: Anorthoscope (n.) An optical toy for producing amusing figures or pictures by means of two revolving disks, on one of which distorted figures are painted..

Desightment :: Desightment (n.) The act of making unsightly; disfigurement.

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..

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