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Rider :: Rider (n.) A Dutch gold coin having the figure of a man on horseback stamped upon it.

Shield :: Shield (n.) A coin, the old French crown, or ecu, having on one side the figure of a shield..

Flourish :: Flourish (n.) Something made or performed in a fanciful, wanton, or vaunting manner, by way of ostentation, to excite admiration, etc.; ostentatious embellishment; ambitious copiousness or amplification; parade of words and figures; show; as, a flourish of rhetoric or of wit..

Homography :: Homography (n.) A relation between two figures, such that to any point of the one corresponds one and but one point in the other, and vise versa. Thus, a tangent line rolling on a circle cuts two fixed tangents of the circle in two sets of points that are homographic..

Imaginal :: Imaginal (a.) Characterized by imagination; imaginative; also, given to the use or rhetorical figures or imagins..

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..

Florid :: Florid (a.) Flowery; ornamental; running in rapid melodic figures, divisions, or passages, as in variations; full of fioriture or little ornamentations..

Cross :: Cross (n.) A piece of money stamped with the figure of a cross, also, that side of such a piece on which the cross is stamped; hence, money in general..

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

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..

Peak :: Peak (v. i.) To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sicky..

Rectilinear :: Rectilinear (a.) Straight; consisting of a straight line or lines; bounded by straight lines; as, a rectineal angle; a rectilinear figure or course..

Fan :: Fan (n.) An instrument for cooling the person, made of feathers, paper, silk, etc., and often mounted on sticks all turning about the same pivot, so as when opened to radiate from the center and assume the figure of a section of a circle..

Hyperbole :: Hyperbole (n.) A figure of speech in which the expression is an evident exaggeration of the meaning intended to be conveyed, or by which things are represented as much greater or less, better or worse, than they really are; a statement exaggerated fancifully, through excitement, or for effect..

Stenoderm :: Stenciler (n.) One who paints or colors in figures by means of stencil.

Heroic :: Heroic (a.) Larger than life size, but smaller than colossal; -- said of the representation of a human figure..

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

Prefigure :: Prefigure (v. t.) To show, suggest, or announce, by antecedent types and similitudes; to foreshadow..

Catachresis :: Catachresis (n.) A figure by which one word is wrongly put for another, or by which a word is wrested from its true signification; as, To take arms against a sea of troubles. Shak. Her voice was but the shadow of a sound. Young..

Picture :: Picture (n.) A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, produced by means of painting, drawing, engraving, photography, etc.; a representation in colors. By extension, a figure; a model..

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