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Hard :: Hard (superl.) Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking grace of composition.

Thorough Bass :: Thorough bass () The representation of chords by figures placed under the base; figured bass; basso continuo; -- sometimes used as synonymous with harmony.

Index :: Index (n.) The figure or letter which shows the power or root of a quantity; the exponent.

Florid :: Florid (a.) Flowery; ornamental; running in rapid melodic figures, divisions, or passages, as in variations; full of fioriture or little ornamentations..

Grotesque :: Grotesque (n.) A whimsical figure, or scene, such as is found in old crypts and grottoes..

Blubber :: Blubber (v. i.) To weep noisily, or so as to disfigure the face; to cry in a childish manner..

Apostrophe :: Apostrophe (n.) A figure of speech by which the orator or writer suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his discourse, and addresses, in the second person, some person or thing, absent or present; as, Milton's apostrophe to Light at the beginning of the third book of Paradise Lost..

Knave :: Knave (n.) A playing card marked with the figure of a servant or soldier; a jack.

Periphery :: Periphery (n.) The circumference of a circle, ellipse, or other figure..

Pip :: Pip (n.) One of the conventional figures or spots on playing cards, dominoes, etc..

Blubber :: Blubber (v. t.) To swell or disfigure (the face) with weeping; to wet with tears.

Grave :: Grave (n.) To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave..

Onomatopoeia :: Onomatopoeia (n.) The formation of words in imitation of sounds; a figure of speech in which the sound of a word is imitative of the sound of the thing which the word represents; as, the buzz of bees; the hiss of a goose; the crackle of fire..

Bosh :: Bosh (n.) Figure; outline; show.

Backboard :: Backboard (n.) A board worn across the back to give erectness to the figure.

Study :: Study (v. i.) A representation or rendering of any object or scene intended, not for exhibition as an original work of art, but for the information, instruction, or assistance of the maker; as, a study of heads or of hands for a figure picture..

Ellipsis :: Ellipsis (n.) Omission; a figure of syntax, by which one or more words, which are obviously understood, are omitted; as, the virtues I admire, for, the virtues which I admire..

Semiaxis :: Semiaxis (n.) One half of the axis of an /llipse or other figure.

Angle :: Angle (n.) The figure made by. two lines which meet.

Flourish :: Flourish (n.) Something made or performed in a fanciful, wanton, or vaunting manner, by way of ostentation, to excite admiration, etc.; ostentatious embellishment; ambitious copiousness or amplification; parade of words and figures; show; as, a flourish of rhetoric or of wit..

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