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Heroine :: Heroine (n.) The principal female person who figures in a remarkable action, or as the subject of a poem or story..

Printing :: Printing (n.) The act, art, or practice of impressing letters, characters, or figures on paper, cloth, or other material; the business of a printer, including typesetting and presswork, with their adjuncts; typography; also, the act of producing photographic prints..

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..

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

Personage :: Personage (n.) Form, appearance, or belongings of a person; the external appearance, stature, figure, air, and the like, of a person..

Figure :: Figure (n.) To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.

Agalmatolite :: Agalmatolite (n.) A soft, compact stone, of a grayish, greenish, or yellowish color, carved into images by the Chinese, and hence called figure stone, and pagodite. It is probably a variety of pinite..

Figural :: Figural (a.) Represented by figure or delineation; consisting of figures; as, figural ornaments..

Whole-length :: Whole-length (a.) Representing the whole figure; -- said of a picture or statue.

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

Vertex :: Vertex (n.) The point in any figure opposite to, and farthest from, the base; the terminating point of some particular line or lines in a figure or a curve; the top, or the point opposite the base..

Figure :: Figure (v. t.) To make a figure; to be distinguished or conspicious; as, the envoy figured at court..

Subspinous :: Subspherical (a.) Nearly spherical; having a figure resembling that of a sphere.

Angle :: Angle (n.) The figure made by. two lines which meet.

Hieroglyphic :: Hieroglyphic (a.) Any character or figure which has, or is supposed to have, a hidden or mysterious significance; hence, any unintelligible or illegible character or mark..

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

Repeat :: Repeat (n.) That which is repeated; as, the repeat of a pattern; that is, the repetition of the engraved figure on a roller by which an impression is produced (as in calico printing, etc.)..

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

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..

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..

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