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Figure :: Figure (n.) A diagram or drawing; made to represent a magnitude or the relation of two or more magnitudes; a surface or space inclosed on all sides; -- called superficial when inclosed by lines, and solid when inclosed by surface; any arrangement made up of points, lines, angles, surfaces, etc..

Dornock :: Dornock (n.) A coarse sort of damask, originally made at Tournay (in Flemish, Doornick), Belgium, and used for hangings, carpets, etc. Also, a stout figured linen manufactured in Scotland..

Phonoscope :: Phonoscope (n.) An instrument for producing luminous figures by the vibrations of sounding bodies.

Epipedometry :: Epipedometry (n.) The mensuration of figures standing on the same base.

Figured :: Figured (a.) Free and florid; as, a figured descant. See Figurate, 3..

Part :: Part (n.) Such portion of any quantity, as when taken a certain number of times, will exactly make that quantity; as, 3 is a part of 12; -- the opposite of multiple. Also, a line or other element of a geometrical figure..

Segment :: Segment (n.) A part cut off from a figure by a line or plane; especially, that part of a circle contained between a chord and an arc of that circle, or so much of the circle as is cut off by the chord; as, the segment acb in the Illustration..

Grave :: Grave (n.) To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave..

Tetragon :: Tetragon (n.) A plane figure having four sides and angles; a quadrangle, as a square, a rhombus, etc..

Curvilinear :: Curvilinear (a.) Consisting of, or bounded by, curved lines; as, a curvilinear figure..

Scar :: Scar (n.) A mark in the skin or flesh of an animal, made by a wound or ulcer, and remaining after the wound or ulcer is healed; a cicatrix; a mark left by a previous injury; a blemish; a disfigurement..

Aposiopesis :: Aposiopesis (n.) A figure of speech in which the speaker breaks off suddenly, as if unwilling or unable to state what was in his mind; as, I declare to you that his conduct -- but I can not speak of that, here..

O :: O () Among the ancients, O was a mark of triple time, from the notion that the ternary, or number 3, is the most perfect of numbers, and properly expressed by a circle, the most perfect figure..

Agnus Dei :: Agnus Dei () A figure of a lamb bearing a cross or flag.

Epiplexis :: Epiplexis (n.) A figure by which a person seeks to convince and move by an elegant kind of upbraiding.

Planimeter :: Planimeter (n.) An instrument for measuring the area of any plane figure, however irregular, by passing a tracer around the bounding line; a platometer..

Defeature :: Defeature (n.) Disfigurement; deformity.

Stalking-horse :: Stalking-horse (n.) A horse, or a figure resembling a horse, behind which a hunter conceals himself from the game he is aiming to kill..

Heptagon :: Heptagon (n.) A plane figure consisting of seven sides and having seven angles.

Lens :: Lens (n.) A piece of glass, or other transparent substance, ground with two opposite regular surfaces, either both curved, or one curved and the other plane, and commonly used, either singly or combined, in optical instruments, for changing the direction of rays of light, and thus magnifying objects, or otherwise modifying vision. In practice, the curved surfaces are usually spherical, though rarely cylindrical, or of some other figure..

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