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Keraunograph :: Keraunograph (n.) A figure or picture impressed by lightning upon the human body or elsewhere.

Figure :: Figure (n.) The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance.

Figure :: Figure (n.) To represent by a figure, as to form or mold; to make an image of, either palpable or ideal; also, to fashion into a determinate form; to shape..

Mar :: Mar (v.) To make defective; to do injury to, esp. by cutting off or defacing a part; to impair; to disfigure; to deface..

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

Backboard :: Backboard (n.) A board worn across the back to give erectness to the figure.

Device :: Device (n.) An emblematic design, generally consisting of one or more figures with a motto, used apart from heraldic bearings to denote the historical situation, the ambition, or the desire of the person adopting it. See Cognizance..

Flower :: Flower (n.) A figure of speech; an ornament of style.

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

Tetrahedron :: Tetrahedron (n.) A solid figure inclosed or bounded by four triangles.

Schesis :: Schesis (n.) A figure of speech whereby the mental habitude of an adversary or opponent is feigned for the purpose of arguing against him.

Hypallage :: Hypallage (n.) A figure consisting of a transference of attributes from their proper subjects to other. Thus Virgil says, dare classibus austros, to give the winds to the fleets, instead of dare classibus austris, to give the fleets to the winds..

Algorithm :: Algorithm (n.) The art of calculating by nine figures and zero.

Isagon :: Isagon (a.) A figure or polygon whose angles are equal.

Type :: Type (n.) A figure or representation of something to come; a token; a sign; a symbol; -- correlative to antitype.

Defacer :: Defacer (n.) One who, or that which, defaces or disfigures..

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..

Period :: Period (n.) One of several similar sets of figures or terms usually marked by points or commas placed at regular intervals, as in numeration, in the extraction of roots, and in circulating decimals..

Notation :: Notation (n.) Any particular system of characters, symbols, or abbreviated expressions used in art or science, to express briefly technical facts, quantities, etc. Esp., the system of figures, letters, and signs used in arithmetic and algebra to express number, quantity, or operations..

Graffiti :: Graffiti (n. pl.) Inscriptions, figure drawings, etc., found on the walls of ancient sepulchers or ruins, as in the Catacombs, or at Pompeii..

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