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Widmanstatten Figures :: Widmanstatten figures () Certain figures appearing on etched meteoric iron; -- so called after A. B. Widmanstatten, of Vienna, who first described them in 1808. See the Note and Illust. under Meteorite..

Spot :: Spot (v. t.) To make visible marks upon with some foreign matter; to discolor in or with spots; to stain; to cover with spots or figures; as, to spot a garnment; to spot paper..

Emblaze :: Emblaze (v. t.) To paint or adorn with armorial figures; to blazon, or emblazon..

Transfigured :: Transfigured (imp. & p. p.) of Transfigur.

Morris :: Morris (n.) An old game played with counters, or men, which are placed angles of a figure drawn on a board or on the ground; also, the board or ground on which the game is played..

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..

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

Daric :: Daric (n.) A gold coin of ancient Persia, weighing usually a little more than 128 grains, and bearing on one side the figure of an archer..

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

Self-conjugate :: Self-conjugate (a.) Having the two things that are conjugate parts of the same figure; as, self-conjugate triangles..

Vairy :: Vairy (n.) Charged with vair; variegated with shield-shaped figures. See Vair.

Figurative :: Figurative (a.) Abounding in figures of speech; flowery; florid; as, a highly figurative description..

Maplike :: Maplike (a.) Having or consisting of lines resembling a map; as, the maplike figures in which certain lichens grow..

Demi-rilievo :: Demi-rilievo (n.) Half relief; sculpture in relief of which the figures project from the background by one half their full roundness.

Figure :: Figure (n.) To indicate by numerals; also, to compute..

Contrast :: Contrast (v. t.) To give greater effect to, as to a figure or other object, by putting it in some relation of opposition to another figure or object..

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

Allemande :: Allemande (n.) A figure in dancing.

Semidiameter :: Semidiameter (n.) Half of a diameter; a right line, or the length of a right line, drawn from the center of a circle, a sphere, or other curved figure, to its circumference or periphery; a radius..

Geodesy :: Geodesy (n.) That branch of applied mathematics which determines, by means of observations and measurements, the figures and areas of large portions of the earth's surface, or the general figure and dimenshions of the earth; or that branch of surveying in which the curvature of the earth is taken into account, as in the surveys of States, or of long lines of coast..

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