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

Ecbasis :: Ecbasis (n.) A figure in which the orator treats of things according to their events consequences.

Diamonded :: Diamonded (a.) Having figures like a diamond or lozenge.

Embossed :: Embossed (a.) Formed or covered with bosses or raised figures.

Lozenge :: Lozenge (n.) A diamond-shaped figure usually with the upper and lower angles slightly acute, borne upon a shield or escutcheon. Cf. Fusil..

Notation :: Notation (n.) The act or practice of recording anything by marks, figures, or characters..

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

Figurative :: Figurative (a.) Representing by a figure, or by resemblance; typical; representative..

Defacement :: Defacement (n.) That which mars or disfigures.

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

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

Reduction :: Reduction (v. t.) The bringing of a syllogism in one of the so-called imperfect modes into a mode in the first figure.

Semblance :: Semblance (a.) Seeming; appearance; show; figure; form.

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..

Oblongum :: Oblongum (n.) A prolate spheroid; a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its greater axis. Cf. Oblatum, and see Ellipsoid of revolution, under Ellipsoid..

Polyptoton :: Polyptoton (n.) A figure by which a word is repeated in different forms, cases, numbers, genders, etc., as in Tennyson's line, -- My own heart's heart, and ownest own, farewell..

Lily :: Lily (n.) That end of a compass needle which should point to the north; -- so called as often ornamented with the figure of a lily or fleur-de-lis.

Emblaze :: Emblaze (v. t.) To paint or adorn with armorial figures; to blazon, or emblazon..

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..

Abracadabra :: Abracadabra (n.) A mystical word or collocation of letters written as in the figure. Worn on an amulet it was supposed to ward off fever. At present the word is used chiefly in jest to denote something without meaning; jargon.

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