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FIG'URE, n. fig'ur. L. figura, from figo, to fix or set. See Feign.

1. The form of any thing as expressed by the outline or terminating extremities. Flowers have exquisite figures. A triangle is a figure of three sides. A square is a figure of four equal sides and equal angles.

2. Shape form person as a lady of elegant figure.

A good figure, or person, in man or woman, gives credit at first sight to the choice of either.

3. Distinguished appearance eminence distinction remarkable character. Ames made a figure in Congress Hamilton, in the cabinet.

4. Appearance of any kind as an figure a mean figure.

5. Magnificence splendor as, to live in figure and indulgence.

6. A statue an image that which is formed in resemblance of something else as the figure of a man in plaster.

7. Representation in painting the lines and colors which represent an animal, particularly a person as the principal figures of a picture a subordinate figure.

8. In manufactures, a design or representation wrought on damask, velvet and other stuffs.

9. In logic, the order or disposition of the middle term in a syllogism with the parts of the question.

10. In arithmetic, a character denoting a number as 2. 7. 9.

11. In astrology, the horoscope the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses.

12. In theology, type representative.

Who was the figure of him that was to come. Romans 5 .

13. In rhetoric, a mode of speaking or writing in which words are deflected from their ordinary signification, or a mode more beautiful and emphatical than the ordinary way of expressing the sense the language of the imagination and passions as, knowledge is the light of the mind the soul mounts on the wings of faith youth is the morning of life. In strictness, the change of a word is a trope, and any affection of a sentence a figure but these terms are often confounded.

14. In grammar, any deviation from the rules of analogy or syntax.

15. In dancing, the several steps which the dancer makes in order and cadence, considered as they form certain figures on the floor.

FIG'URE, fig'ur.

1. To form or mold into any determinate shape.

Accept this goblet, rough with figured gold.

2. To show by a corporeal resemblance, as in picture or statuary.

3. To cover or adorn with figures or images to mark with figures to form figures in by art as, to figure velvet or muslin.

4. To diversify to variegate with adventitious forms of matter.

5. To represent by a typical or figurative resemblance.

The matter of the sacraments figureth their end.

6. To imagine to image in the mind.

7. To prefigure to foreshow.

8. To form figuratively to use in a sense not literal as figured expressions. Little used.

9. To note by characters.

As though a crystal glass the figured hours are seen.

10. In music, to pass several notes for one to form runnings or variations.

FIG'URE, To make a figure to be distinguished. The envoy figured at the court of St. Cloud.