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Trapezium :: Trapezium (n.) A plane figure bounded by four right lines, of which no two are parallel..

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

Conical :: Conical (a.) Having the form of, or resembling, a geometrical cone; round and tapering to a point, or gradually lessening in circumference; as, a conic or conical figure; a conical vessel..

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

Outline :: Outline (n.) The line which marks the outer limits of an object or figure; the exterior line or edge; contour.

Liking :: Liking (n.) Appearance; look; figure; state of body as to health or condition.

Frieze :: Frieze (n.) That part of the entablature of an order which is between the architrave and cornice. It is a flat member or face, either uniform or broken by triglyphs, and often enriched with figures and other ornaments of sculpture..

Heptahedron :: Heptahedron (n.) A solid figure with seven sides.

Ecbasis :: Ecbasis (n.) A figure in which the orator treats of things according to their events consequences.

Personification :: Personification (n.) A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopop/ia; as, the floods clap their hands..

Spheroid :: Spheroid (n.) A body or figure approaching to a sphere, but not perfectly spherical; esp., a solid generated by the revolution of an ellipse about one of its axes..

Inform :: Inform (v. t.) To give form or share to; to give vital ororganizing power to; to give life to; to imbue and actuate with vitality; to animate; to mold; to figure; to fashion.

Abracadabra :: Abracadabra (n.) A mystical word or collocation of letters written as in the figure. Worn on an amulet it was supposed to ward off fever. At present the word is used chiefly in jest to denote something without meaning; jargon.

Syllepsis :: Syllepsis (n.) A figure of speech by which a word is used in a literal and metaphorical sense at the same time.

Oval :: Oval (n.) A body or figure in the shape of an egg, or popularly, of an ellipse..

Anorthoscope :: Anorthoscope (n.) An optical toy for producing amusing figures or pictures by means of two revolving disks, on one of which distorted figures are painted..

Figure :: Figure (n.) To prefigure; to foreshow.

Squab :: Squab (n.) A person of a short, fat figure..

Epanorthosis :: Epanorthosis (n.) A figure by which a speaker recalls a word or words, in order to substitute something else stronger or more significant; as, Most brave! Brave, did I say? most heroic act!.

Embossment :: Embossment (n.) The act of forming bosses or raised figures, or the state of being so formed..

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