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Figure :: Figure (n.) A diagram or drawing; made to represent a magnitude or the relation of two or more magnitudes; a surface or space inclosed on all sides; -- called superficial when inclosed by lines, and solid when inclosed by surface; any arrangement made up of points, lines, angles, surfaces, etc..

Florid :: Florid (a.) Flowery; ornamental; running in rapid melodic figures, divisions, or passages, as in variations; full of fioriture or little ornamentations..

Strategetic :: Stratarithmetry (n.) The art of drawing up an army, or any given number of men, in any geometrical figure, or of estimating or expressing the number of men in such a figure..

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

Whole-length :: Whole-length (n.) A portrait or statue representing the whole figure.

Defeature :: Defeature (n.) Disfigurement; deformity.

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..

Prophesy :: Prophesy (v. t.) To foreshow; to herald; to prefigure.

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

Work :: Work (n.) Specifically: (a) That which is produced by mental labor; a composition; a book; as, a work, or the works, of Addison. (b) Flowers, figures, or the like, wrought with the needle; embroidery..

Carry :: Carry (v. t.) To transfer from one place (as a country, book, or column) to another; as, to carry the war from Greece into Asia; to carry an account to the ledger; to carry a number in adding figures..

Paronomasia :: Paronomasia (n.) A play upon words; a figure by which the same word is used in different senses, or words similar in sound are set in opposition to each other, so as to give antithetical force to the sentence; punning..

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

Cipher :: Cipher (v. i.) To use figures in a mathematical process; to do sums in arithmetic.

Arras :: Arras (n.) Tapestry; a rich figured fabric; especially, a screen or hangings of heavy cloth with interwoven figures..

Figurant :: Figurant (n. masc.) One who dances at the opera, not singly, but in groups or figures; an accessory character on the stage, who figures in its scenes, but has nothing to say; hence, one who figures in any scene, without taking a prominent part..

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..

Pentacle :: Pentacle (n.) A figure composed of two equilateral triangles intersecting so as to form a six-pointed star, -- used in early ornamental art, and also with superstitious import by the astrologers and mystics of the Middle Ages..

Period :: Period (n.) One of several similar sets of figures or terms usually marked by points or commas placed at regular intervals, as in numeration, in the extraction of roots, and in circulating decimals..

Synopses :: Synonymy (n.) A figure by which synonymous words are used to amplify a discourse.

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