Figure

·noun To Embellish.

II. Figure ·noun To indicate by numerals; also, to compute.

III. Figure ·noun To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.

IV. Figure ·noun The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance.

V. Figure ·noun To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.

VI. Figure ·noun Any one of the several regular steps or movements made by a dancer.

VII. Figure ·noun A horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses.

VIII. Figure ·noun To Prefigure; to Foreshow.

IX. Figure ·noun A character or symbol representing a number; a numeral; a digit; as, 1, 2,3, ·etc.

X. Figure ·noun The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term.

XI. Figure ·noun Distinguished appearance; magnificence; conspicuous representation; splendor; show.

XII. Figure ·vt To make a figure; to be distinguished or conspicious; as, the envoy figured at court.

XIII. Figure ·noun Value, as expressed in numbers; price; as, the goods are estimated or sold at a low figure.

XIV. Figure ·noun The appearance or impression made by the conduct or carrer of a person; as, a sorry figure.

XV. Figure ·noun To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords.

XVI. Figure ·noun A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a musical or motive; a florid embellishment.

XVII. Figure ·noun Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression.

XVIII. Figure ·noun A pattern in cloth, paper, or other manufactured article; a design wrought out in a fabric; as, the muslin was of a pretty figure.

XIX. Figure ·noun A person, thing, or action, conceived of as analogous to another person, thing, or action, of which it thus becomes a type or representative.

XX. Figure ·vt To Calculate; to Contrive; to Scheme; as, he is figuring to secure the nomination.

XXI. Figure ·noun To represent by a figure, as to form or mold; to make an image of, either palpable or ideal; also, to fashion into a determinate form; to Shape.

XXII. Figure ·noun The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modeling, carving, embroidering, ·etc.; especially, a representation of the human body; as, a figure in bronze; a figure cut in marble.

XXIII. Figure ·noun 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.

XXIV. Figure ·noun A diagram or drawing; made to represent a magnitude or the relation of two or more magnitudes; a surface or space inclosed on all sides;

— called superficial when inclosed by lines, and solid when inclosed by surface; any arrangement made up of points, lines, angles, surfaces, ·etc.