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Hopscotch :: Hopscotch (n.) A child's game, in which a player, hopping on one foot, drives a stone from one compartment to another of a figure traced or scotched on the ground; -- called also hoppers..

Figurehead :: Figurehead (n.) The figure, statue, or bust, on the prow of a ship..

Ney :: Ney (n.) A figure made up of a large number of straight lines or curves, which are connected at certain points and related to each other by some specified law..

Ogee :: Ogee (n.) Hence, any similar figure used for any purpose..

Calvary :: Calvary (n.) A representation of the crucifixion, consisting of three crosses with the figures of Christ and the thieves, often as large as life, and sometimes surrounded by figures of other personages who were present at the crucifixion..

Semblant :: Semblant (n.) Show; appearance; figure; semblance.

Apostrophe :: Apostrophe (n.) A figure of speech by which the orator or writer suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his discourse, and addresses, in the second person, some person or thing, absent or present; as, Milton's apostrophe to Light at the beginning of the third book of Paradise Lost..

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..

Auxesis :: Auxesis (n.) A figure by which a grave and magnificent word is put for the proper word; amplification; hyperbole.

Bosh :: Bosh (n.) Figure; outline; show.

Quadrangle :: Quadrangle (n.) A plane figure having four angles, and consequently four sides; any figure having four angles..

Knave :: Knave (n.) A playing card marked with the figure of a servant or soldier; a jack.

Figured :: Figured (a.) Not literal; figurative.

Figure :: Figure (n.) Distinguished appearance; magnificence; conspicuous representation; splendor; show.

Knuckle :: Knuckle (n.) A contrivance, usually of brass or iron, and furnished with points, worn to protect the hand, to add force to a blow, and to disfigure the person struck; as, brass knuckles; -- called also knuckle duster..

Subscript :: Subscript (a.) Written below or underneath; as, iota subscript. (See under Iota.) Specifically (Math.), said of marks, figures, or letters (suffixes), written below and usually to the right of other letters to distinguish them; as, a, n, 2, in the symbols Xa, An, Y2. See Suffix, n., 2, and Subindex..

Photosculpture :: Photosculpture (n.) A process in which, by means of a number of photographs simultaneously taken from different points of view on the same level, rough models of the figure or bust of a person or animal may be made with great expedition..

Parabolical :: Parabolical (a.) Of the nature of a parable; expressed by a parable or figure; allegorical; as, parabolical instruction..

Chevroned :: Chevroned (p. a.) Having a chevron; decorated with an ornamental figure of a zigzag from.

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

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