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Write :: Write (v. i.) To form characters, letters, or figures, as representative of sounds or ideas; to express words and sentences by written signs..

Cleche :: Cleche (a.) Charged with another bearing of the same figure, and of the color of the field, so large that only a narrow border of the first bearing remains visible; -- said of any heraldic bearing. Compare Voided..

Flourish :: Flourish (v. i.) To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery.

Footing :: Footing (n.) A narrow cotton lace, without figures..

Prosopop/ia :: Prosopop/ia (n.) A figure by which things are represented as persons, or by which things inanimate are spoken of as animated beings; also, a figure by which an absent person is introduced as speaking, or a deceased person is represented as alive and present. It includes personification, but is more extensive in its signification..

Character :: Character (n.) A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol..

Knight :: Knight (n.) A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.

Reduction :: Reduction (v. t.) The bringing of a syllogism in one of the so-called imperfect modes into a mode in the first figure.

Enantiosis :: Enantiosis (n.) A figure of speech by which what is to be understood affirmatively is stated negatively, and the contrary; affirmation by contraries..

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

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

Hysteron Proteron :: Hysteron proteron () A figure in which the natural order of sense is reversed; hysterology; as, valet atque vivit, he is well and lives..

German :: German (n.) A round dance, often with a waltz movement, abounding in capriciosly involved figures..

George :: George (n.) A figure of St. George (the patron saint of England) on horseback, appended to the collar of the Order of the Garter. See Garter..

Blubber :: Blubber (v. t.) To swell or disfigure (the face) with weeping; to wet with tears.

Flourish :: Flourish (v. t.) To embellish with the flowers of diction; to adorn with rhetorical figures; to grace with ostentatious eloquence; to set off with a parade of words.

Trope :: Trope (n.) The use of a word or expression in a different sense from that which properly belongs to it; the use of a word or expression as changed from the original signification to another, for the sake of giving life or emphasis to an idea; a figure of speech..

Reduction :: Reduction (v. t.) The process of making a copy of something, as a figure, design, or draught, on a smaller scale, preserving the proper proportions..

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

Outline :: Outline (n.) A sketch composed of such lines; the delineation of a figure without shading.

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