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Lifeblood :: Lifeblood (n.) Fig.: That which gives strength and energy.

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

Atlantes :: Atlantes (n. pl.) Figures or half figures of men, used as columns to support an entablature; -- called also telamones. See Caryatides..

Ellipse :: Ellipse (n.) An oval or oblong figure, bounded by a regular curve, which corresponds to an oblique projection of a circle, or an oblique section of a cone through its opposite sides. The greatest diameter of the ellipse is the major axis, and the least diameter is the minor axis. See Conic section, under Conic, and cf. Focus..

Blotch :: Blotch (a.) A blot or spot, as of color or of ink; especially a large or irregular spot. Also Fig.; as, a moral blotch..

Number :: Number (n.) The measure of the relation between quantities or things of the same kind; that abstract species of quantity which is capable of being expressed by figures; numerical value.

Diastole :: Diastole (n.) A figure by which a syllable naturally short is made long.

Fan :: Fan (n.) An instrument for cooling the person, made of feathers, paper, silk, etc., and often mounted on sticks all turning about the same pivot, so as when opened to radiate from the center and assume the figure of a section of a circle..

Port :: Port (v.) A place where ships may ride secure from storms; a sheltered inlet, bay, or cove; a harbor; a haven. Used also figuratively..

Glutton :: Glutton (n.) Fig.: One who gluts himself.

Drum :: Drum (n.) A small cylindrical box in which figs, etc., are packed..

Scum :: Scum (v. i.) To form a scum; to become covered with scum. Also used figuratively.

Imaginal :: Imaginal (a.) Characterized by imagination; imaginative; also, given to the use or rhetorical figures or imagins..

Layman :: Layman (n.) A lay figure. See under Lay, n. (above)..

Impetus :: Impetus (n.) Fig.: Impulse; incentive; vigor; force.

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

Spiny :: Spiny (a.) Fig.: Abounding with difficulties or annoyances.

Vampirism :: Vampirism (n.) Fig.: The practice of extortion.

Coil :: Coil (n.) Fig.: Entanglement; toil; mesh; perplexity.

Chiliahedron :: Chiliahedron (n.) A figure bounded by a thousand plane surface.

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