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- English Word Figurability Definition The quality of being figurable.
- English Word Figurable Definition Capable of being brought to a fixed form or shape.
- English Word Figural Definition Represented by figure or delineation; consisting of figures; as, figural ornaments.
- English Word Figural Definition Figurate. See Figurate.
- English Word Figurant Definition One who dances at the opera, not singly, but in groups or figures; an accessory character on the stage, who figures in its scenes, but has nothing to say; hence, one who figures in any scene, without taking a prominent part.
- English Word Figurante Definition A female figurant; esp., a ballet girl.
- English Word Figurate Definition Of a definite form or figure.
- English Word Figurate Definition Figurative; metaphorical.
- English Word Figurate Definition Florid; figurative; involving passing discords by the freer melodic movement of one or more parts or voices in the harmony; as, figurate counterpoint or descant.
- English Word Figurated Definition Having a determinate form.
- English Word Figurately Definition In a figurate manner.
- English Word Figuration Definition The act of giving figure or determinate form; determination to a certain form.
- English Word Figuration Definition Mixture of concords and discords.
- English Word Figurative Definition Representing by a figure, or by resemblance; typical; representative.
- English Word Figurative Definition Used in a sense that is tropical, as a metaphor; not literal; -- applied to words and expressions.
- English Word Figurative Definition Abounding in figures of speech; flowery; florid; as, a highly figurative description.
- English Word Figurative Definition Relating to the representation of form or figure by drawing, carving, etc. See Figure, n., 2.
- English Word Figure Definition The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance.
- English Word Figure Definition 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.
- English Word Figure Definition A pattern in cloth, paper, or other manufactured article; a design wrought out in a fabric; as, the muslin was of a pretty figure.