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Image :: Image (n.) The figure or picture of any object formed at the focus of a lens or mirror, by rays of light from the several points of the object symmetrically refracted or reflected to corresponding points in such focus; this may be received on a screen, a photographic plate, or the retina of the eye, and viewed directly by the eye, or with an eyeglass, as in the telescope and microscope; the likeness of an object formed by reflection; as, to see one's image in a mirror..

Oblatum :: Oblatum (n.) An oblate spheroid; a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its minor axis. Cf. Oblongum.

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

Pentahedral :: Pentahedral (a.) Having five sides; as, a pentahedral figure..

Quindecagon :: Quindecagon (n.) A plane figure with fifteen angles, and consequently fifteen sides..

Rocking-horse :: Rocking-horse (n.) The figure of a horse, mounted upon rockers, for children to ride..

Preraphaelite :: Preraphaelite (a.) Of or pertaining to the style called preraphaelitism; as, a preraphaelite figure; a preraphaelite landscape..

Transfigured :: Transfigured (imp. & p. p.) of Transfigur.

Tapet :: Tapet (n.) Worked or figured stuff; tapestry.

Arras :: Arras (n.) Tapestry; a rich figured fabric; especially, a screen or hangings of heavy cloth with interwoven figures..

Emblazonry :: Emblazonry (n.) The act or art of an emblazoner; heraldic or ornamental decoration, as pictures or figures on shields, standards, etc.; emblazonment..

Clock :: Clock (v. t.) To ornament with figured work, as the side of a stocking..

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

Flourish :: Flourish (v. i.) To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery.

Heart :: Heart (n.) One of a series of playing cards, distinguished by the figure or figures of a heart; as, hearts are trumps..

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..

Agnus Dei :: Agnus Dei () A figure of a lamb bearing a cross or flag.

Enheahedron :: Enheahedron (n.) A figure having nine sides; a nonagon.

Gastromancy :: Gastromancy (n.) A species of divination, by means of glasses or other round, transparent vessels, in the center of which figures are supposed to appear by magic art..

Imagery :: Imagery (n.) Rhetorical decoration in writing or speaking; vivid descriptions presenting or suggesting images of sensible objects; figures in discourse.

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