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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..

Center :: Center (n.) A point equally distant from the extremities of a line, figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of a circle; the middle point or place..

Decussate :: Decussate (v. t.) To cross at an acute angle; to cut or divide in the form of X; to intersect; -- said of lines in geometrical figures, rays of light, nerves, etc..

Arms :: Arms (n.) The ensigns armorial of a family, consisting of figures and colors borne in shields, banners, etc., as marks of dignity and distinction, and descending from father to son..

Inscribable :: Inscribable (a.) Capable of being inscribed, -- used specif. (Math.) of solids or plane figures capable of being inscribed in other solids or figures..

Fake :: Fake (v. t.) To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form,, to prevent twisting when running out..

Print :: Print (n.) A printed cloth; a fabric figured by stamping, especially calico or cotton cloth..

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

Comprehension :: Comprehension (n.) A figure by which the name of a whole is put for a part, or that of a part for a whole, or a definite number for an indefinite..

Transmutation :: Transmutation (n.) The change or reduction of one figure or body into another of the same area or solidity, but of a different form, as of a triangle into a square..

Ramification :: Ramification (n.) The production of branchlike figures.

Centrode :: Centrode (n.) In two figures having relative motion, one of the two curves which are the loci of the instantaneous center..

Figure :: Figure (n.) The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term.

Prosopop/ia :: Prosopop/ia (n.) A figure by which things are represented as persons, or by which things inanimate are spoken of as animated beings; also, a figure by which an absent person is introduced as speaking, or a deceased person is represented as alive and present. It includes personification, but is more extensive in its signification..

Weed :: Weed (n.) Any plant growing in cultivated ground to the injury of the crop or desired vegetation, or to the disfigurement of the place; an unsightly, useless, or injurious plant..

Aries :: Aries (n.) A constellation west of Taurus, drawn on the celestial globe in the figure of a ram..

Contour :: Contour (n.) The outline of a figure or body, or the line or lines representing such an outline; the line that bounds; periphery..

Rectangle :: Rectangle (n.) A four-sided figure having only right angles; a right-angled parallelogram.

Diamond :: Diamond (n.) A geometrical figure, consisting of four equal straight lines, and having two of the interior angles acute and two obtuse; a rhombus; a lozenge..

Fig :: Fig (n.) Figure; dress; array.

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