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Pastorale :: Pastorale (n.) A kind of dance; a kind of figure used in a dance.

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

Set :: Set (n.) In dancing, the number of persons necessary to execute a quadrille; also, the series of figures or movements executed..

Impress :: Impress (v. t.) To produce by pressure, as a mark, stamp, image, etc.; to imprint (a mark or figure upon something)..

Plaster :: Plaster (n.) Calcined gypsum, or plaster of Paris, especially when ground, as used for making ornaments, figures, moldings, etc.; or calcined gypsum used as a fertilizer..

Circle :: Circle (n.) A plane figure, bounded by a single curve line called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the center..

Zoetrope :: Zoetrope (n.) An optical toy, in which figures made to revolve on the inside of a cylinder, and viewed through slits in its circumference, appear like a single figure passing through a series of natural motions as if animated or mechanically moved..

Adumbration :: Adumbration (n.) The shadow or outlines of a figure.

Set :: Set (n.) Permanent change of figure in consequence of excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.; as, the set of a spring..

Sagittary :: Sagittary (n.) The Arsenal in Venice; -- so called from having a figure of an archer over the door.

Attitude :: Attitude (n.) The posture, action, or disposition of a figure or a statue..

Superposed :: Superposable (a.) Capable of being superposed, as one figure upon another..

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

Sanbenito :: Sanbenito (n.) A garnment or cap, or sometimes both, painted with flames, figures, etc., and worn by persons who had been examined by the Inquisition and were brought forth for punishment at the auto-da-fe..

Wild-cat :: Wild-cat (a.) Unsound; worthless; irresponsible; unsafe; -- said to have been originally applied to the notes of an insolvent bank in Michigan upon which there was the figure of a panther.

Figured :: Figured (a.) Adorned with figures; marked with figures; as, figured muslin..

Impress :: Impress (n.) A mark made by pressure; an indentation; imprint; the image or figure of anything, formed by pressure or as if by pressure; result produced by pressure or influence..

Term :: Term (n.) A quadrangular pillar, adorned on the top with the figure of a head, as of a man, woman, or satyr; -- called also terminal figure. See Terminus, n., 2 and 3..

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..

Angular :: Angular (a.) Relating to an angle or to angles; having an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner; sharp-cornered; pointed; as, an angular figure..

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