Definition of figure

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Figure (n.) To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.

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Figure :: Figure (n.) A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a musical or motive; a florid embellishment.
Delineate :: Delineate (v. t.) To indicate by lines drawn in the form or figure of; to represent by sketch, design, or diagram; to sketch out; to portray; to picture; in drawing and engraving, to represent in lines, as with the pen, pencil, or graver; hence, to represent with accuracy and minuteness. See Delineation..
Effigy :: Effigy (n.) The image, likeness, or representation of a person, whether a full figure, or a part; an imitative figure; -- commonly applied to sculptured likenesses, as those on monuments, or to those of the heads of princes on coins and medals, sometimes applied to portraits..
Antic :: Antic (n.) An odd imagery, device, or tracery; a fantastic figure..
Rectangle :: Rectangle (n.) A four-sided figure having only right angles; a right-angled parallelogram.
Fair :: Fair (superl.) Without sudden change of direction or curvature; smooth; fowing; -- said of the figure of a vessel, and of surfaces, water lines, and other lines..
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..
Anubis :: Anubis (n.) An Egyptian deity, the conductor of departed spirits, represented by a human figure with the head of a dog or fox..
Shape :: Shape (n.) To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to..
Figuration :: Figuration (n.) The act of giving figure or determinate form; determination to a certain form.
Ney :: Ney (n.) A figure made up of a large number of straight lines or curves, which are connected at certain points and related to each other by some specified law..
Calvary :: Calvary (n.) A representation of the crucifixion, consisting of three crosses with the figures of Christ and the thieves, often as large as life, and sometimes surrounded by figures of other personages who were present at the crucifixion..
Amphicome :: Amphicome (n.) A kind of figured stone, rugged and beset with eminences, anciently used in divination..
Grave :: Grave (n.) To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave..
Emblaze :: Emblaze (v. t.) To paint or adorn with armorial figures; to blazon, or emblazon..
Squab :: Squab (n.) A person of a short, fat figure..
Orthogon :: Orthogon (n.) A rectangular figure.
Eagle :: Eagle (n.) The figure of an eagle borne as an emblem on the standard of the ancient Romans, or so used upon the seal or standard of any people..
Prefiguration :: Prefiguration (n.) The act of prefiguring, or the state of being prefigured..
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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