Definition of figure

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Figure (n.) A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a musical or motive; a florid embellishment.

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Subjected :: Subject (n.) The incident, scene, figure, group, etc., which it is the aim of the artist to represent..
Balloon :: Balloon (n.) The outline inclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
Figural :: Figural (a.) Represented by figure or delineation; consisting of figures; as, figural ornaments..
Antanagoge :: Antanagoge (n.) A figure which consists in answering the charge of an adversary, by a counter charge..
Fingered :: Fingered (a.) Marked with figures designating which finger should be used for each note.
Know :: Know (v. i.) To recognize; to distinguish; to discern the character of; as, to know a person's face or figure..
Anorthoscope :: Anorthoscope (n.) An optical toy for producing amusing figures or pictures by means of two revolving disks, on one of which distorted figures are painted..
Line :: Line (n.) Lineament; feature; figure.
Contrast :: Contrast (v. t.) To give greater effect to, as to a figure or other object, by putting it in some relation of opposition to another figure or object..
Parallelogram :: Parallelogram (n.) A right-lined quadrilateral figure, whose opposite sides are parallel, and consequently equal; -- sometimes restricted in popular usage to a rectangle, or quadrilateral figure which is longer than it is broad, and with right angles..
Ramification :: Ramification (n.) The production of branchlike figures.
Herborize :: Herborize (v. t.) To form the figures of plants in; -- said in reference to minerals. See Arborized.
Angle :: Angle (n.) The figure made by. two lines which meet.
O :: O () Among the ancients, O was a mark of triple time, from the notion that the ternary, or number 3, is the most perfect of numbers, and properly expressed by a circle, the most perfect figure..
Refer :: Refer (v. i.) To have relation or reference; to relate; to point; as, the figure refers to a footnote..
Flourish :: Flourish (v. t.) To move in bold or irregular figures; to swing about in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish.
Device :: Device (n.) An emblematic design, generally consisting of one or more figures with a motto, used apart from heraldic bearings to denote the historical situation, the ambition, or the desire of the person adopting it. See Cognizance..
Griff :: Griff (n.) An arrangement of parallel bars for lifting the hooked wires which raise the warp threads in a loom for weaving figured goods.
Calico :: Calico (n.) Cotton cloth printed with a figured pattern.
Semiaxis :: Semiaxis (n.) One half of the axis of an /llipse or other figure.
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