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Aporia :: Aporia (n.) A figure in which the speaker professes to be at a loss what course to pursue, where to begin to end, what to say, etc..

Curvilinear :: Curvilinear (a.) Consisting of, or bounded by, curved lines; as, a curvilinear figure..

Inform :: Inform (v. t.) To give form or share to; to give vital ororganizing power to; to give life to; to imbue and actuate with vitality; to animate; to mold; to figure; to fashion.

Quadrature :: Quadrature (a.) The act of squaring; the finding of a square having the same area as some given curvilinear figure; as, the quadrature of a circle; the operation of finding an expression for the area of a figure bounded wholly or in part by a curved line, as by a curve, two ordinates, and the axis of abscissas..

Figure :: Figure (n.) A mode of expressing abstract or immaterial ideas by words which suggest pictures or images from the physical world; pictorial language; a trope; hence, any deviation from the plainest form of statement..

Subarration :: Subarcuated (a.) Having a figure resembling that of a bow; somewhat curved or arched.

Perimeter :: Perimeter (n.) The outer boundary of a body or figure, or the sum of all the sides..

Diaphane :: Diaphane (n.) A woven silk stuff with transparent and colored figures; diaper work.

Poussette :: Poussette (n.) A movement, or part of a figure, in the contradance..

Strategetic :: Stratarithmetry (n.) The art of drawing up an army, or any given number of men, in any geometrical figure, or of estimating or expressing the number of men in such a figure..

Vertex :: Vertex (n.) The point in any figure opposite to, and farthest from, the base; the terminating point of some particular line or lines in a figure or a curve; the top, or the point opposite the base..

Quadrangle :: Quadrangle (n.) A plane figure having four angles, and consequently four sides; any figure having four angles..

Ambrosin :: Ambrosin (n.) An early coin struck by the dukes of Milan, and bearing the figure of St. Ambrose on horseback..

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

Agalmatolite :: Agalmatolite (n.) A soft, compact stone, of a grayish, greenish, or yellowish color, carved into images by the Chinese, and hence called figure stone, and pagodite. It is probably a variety of pinite..

Osiris :: Osiris (n.) One of the principal divinities of Egypt, the brother and husband of Isis. He was figured as a mummy wearing the royal cap of Upper Egypt, and was symbolized by the sacred bull, called Apis. Cf. Serapis..

Configuration :: Configuration (n.) Form, as depending on the relative disposition of the parts of a thing' shape; figure..

Refigure :: Refigure (v. t.) To figure again.

Antanagoge :: Antanagoge (n.) A figure which consists in answering the charge of an adversary, by a counter charge..

Knotted :: Knotted (a.) Having intersecting lines or figures.

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