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  • English Word Figure Definition Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression.
  • English Word Figure Definition A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a musical or motive; a florid embellishment.
  • English Word Figure Definition 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.
  • English Word Figure Definition To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.
  • English Word Figure Definition To indicate by numerals; also, to compute.
  • English Word Figure Definition To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.
  • English Word Figure Definition To prefigure; to foreshow.
  • English Word Figure Definition To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords.
  • English Word Figure Definition To embellish.
  • English Word Figure Definition To make a figure; to be distinguished or conspicious; as, the envoy figured at court.
  • English Word Figure Definition To calculate; to contrive; to scheme; as, he is figuring to secure the nomination.
  • English Word Figured Definition of Figure
  • English Word Figured Definition Adorned with figures; marked with figures; as, figured muslin.
  • English Word Figured Definition Not literal; figurative.
  • English Word Figured Definition Free and florid; as, a figured descant. See Figurate, 3.
  • English Word Figured Definition Indicated or noted by figures.
  • English Word Figurehead Definition The figure, statue, or bust, on the prow of a ship.
  • English Word Figurehead Definition A person who allows his name to be used to give standing to enterprises in which he has no responsible interest or duties; a nominal, but not real, head or chief.
  • English Word Figurial Definition Represented by figure or delineation.
  • English Word Figurine Definition A very small figure, whether human or of an animal; especially, one in terra cotta or the like; -- distinguished from statuette, which is applied to small figures in bronze, marble, etc.
  • English Word Figuring Definition of Figure
  • English Word Figurist Definition One who uses or interprets figurative expressions.
  • English Word Figwort Definition A genus of herbaceous plants (Scrophularia), mostly found in the north temperate zones. See Brownwort.
  • English Word Fijian Definition Of or pertaining to the Fiji islands or their inhabitants.
  • English Word Fijian Definition A native of the Fiji islands.
  • English Word Fike Definition See Fyke.
  • English Word Fil Definition imp. of Fall, v. i. Fell.
  • English Word Filaceous Definition Composed of threads.
  • English Word Filacer Definition A former officer in the English Court of Common Pleas; -- so called because he filed the writs on which he made out process.
  • English Word Filament Definition A thread or threadlike object or appendage; a fiber; esp. (Bot.), the threadlike part of the stamen supporting the anther.