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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
figuration n representing figuratively as by emblem or allegory decorating with a design
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
figurative adj (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech; "figurative language" Synonym(s): figurative, nonliteral Antonym(s): literal consisting of or forming human or animal figures; "a figural design"; "the figurative art of the humanistic tradition"- Herbert Read Synonym(s): figural, figurative
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
figuratively adv in a figurative sense; "figuratively speaking,..." [ant: literally]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
figure out v find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of; "did you solve the problem?"; "Work out your problems with the boss"; "this unpleasant situation isn't going to work itself out"; "did you get it?"; "Did you get my meaning?"; "He could not work the math problem" Synonym(s): solve, work out, figure out, puzzle out, lick, work
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
figured adj (of e.g. fabric design) adorned with patterns; "my dress is richly figured"- Amy Lowell
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
figured bass n a bass part written out in full and accompanied by numbers to indicate the chords to be played Synonym(s): figured bass, basso continuo, continuo, thorough bass
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
figured-fabric loom n a loom for weaving figured fabrics [syn: figure loom, figured-fabric loom]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
figurehead n a person used as a cover for some questionable activity Synonym(s): front man, front, figurehead, nominal head, straw man, strawman figure on the bow of some sailing vessels
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
figwort n any of numerous tall coarse woodland plants of the genus Scrophularia
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
figwort family n a family of dicotyledonous plants of the order Polemoniales; includes figwort and snapdragon and foxglove and toadflax and speedwell and mullein; in some classifications placed in the order Scrophulariales Synonym(s): Scrophulariaceae, family Scrophulariaceae, figwort family, foxglove family
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fjord n a long narrow inlet of the sea between steep cliffs; common in Norway Synonym(s): fjord, fiord
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Fugard n South African playwright whose plays feature the racial tensions in South Africa during apartheid (born in 1932) Synonym(s): Fugard, Athol Fugard
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Thorny \Thorn"y\, a. [Compar. {Thornier}; superl. {Thorniest}.] [Cf. AS. [thorn]orniht.] 1. Full of thorns or spines; rough with thorns; spiny; as, a thorny wood; a thorny tree; a thorny crown. 2. Like a thorn or thorns; hence, figuratively, troublesome; vexatious; harassing; perplexing. [bd]The thorny point of bare distress.[b8] --Shak. The steep and thorny way to heaven. --Shak. {Thorny rest-harrow} (Bot.), rest-harrow. {Thorny trefoil}, a prickly plant of the genus {Fagonia} ({F. Cretica}, etc.).
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wart \Wart\, n. [OE. werte, AS. wearte; akin to D. wrat, G. warze, OHG. warza, Icel. varta, Sw. v[86]rta, Dan. vorte; perh. orig., a growth, and akin to E. wort; or cf. L. verruca wart.] 1. (Med.) A small, usually hard, tumor on the skin formed by enlargement of its vascular papill[91], and thickening of the epidermis which covers them. 2. An excrescence or protuberance more or less resembling a true wart; specifically (Bot.), a glandular excrescence or hardened protuberance on plants. {Fig wart}, {Moist wart} (Med.), a soft, bright red, pointed or tufted tumor found about the genitals, often massed into groups of large size. It is a variety of condyloma. Called also {pointed wart}, {venereal wart}. --L. A. Duhring. {Wart cress} (Bot.), the swine's cress. See under {Swine}. {Wart snake} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of East Indian colubrine snakes of the genus {Acrochordus}, having the body covered with wartlike tubercles or spinose scales, and lacking cephalic plates and ventral scutes. {Wart spurge} (Bot.), a kind of wartwort ({Euphorbia Helioscopia}).
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Figurate \Fig"ur*ate\, a. [L. figuratus, p. p. of figurare. See {Figure}.] 1. Of a definite form or figure. Plants are all figurate and determinate, which inanimate bodies are not. --Bacon. 2. Figurative; metaphorical. [Obs.] --Bale. 3. (Mus.) 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. {Figurate counterpoint} [or] {descant} (Mus.), that which is not simple, or in which the parts do not move together tone for tone, but in which freer movement of one or more parts mingles passing discords with the harmony; -- called also {figural}, {figurative}, and {figured counterpoint} or {descant} (although the term figured is more commonly applied to a bass with numerals written above or below to indicate the other notes of the harmony). {Figurate numbers} (Math.), numbers, or series of numbers, formed from any arithmetical progression in which the first term is a unit, and the difference a whole number, by taking the first term, and the sums of the first two, first three, first four, etc., as the successive terms of a new series, from which another may be formed in the same manner, and so on, the numbers in the resulting series being such that points representing them are capable of symmetrical arrangement in different geometrical figures, as triangles, squares, pentagons, etc. Note: In the following example, the two lower lines are composed of figurate numbers, those in the second line being triangular, and represented thus: -- . 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. . . . 1, 3, 6, 10, etc. . . . . . . . etc. 1, 4, 10, 20, etc . . . . . . . . . . . .
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Figurate \Fig"ur*ate\, a. [L. figuratus, p. p. of figurare. See {Figure}.] 1. Of a definite form or figure. Plants are all figurate and determinate, which inanimate bodies are not. --Bacon. 2. Figurative; metaphorical. [Obs.] --Bale. 3. (Mus.) 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. {Figurate counterpoint} [or] {descant} (Mus.), that which is not simple, or in which the parts do not move together tone for tone, but in which freer movement of one or more parts mingles passing discords with the harmony; -- called also {figural}, {figurative}, and {figured counterpoint} or {descant} (although the term figured is more commonly applied to a bass with numerals written above or below to indicate the other notes of the harmony). {Figurate numbers} (Math.), numbers, or series of numbers, formed from any arithmetical progression in which the first term is a unit, and the difference a whole number, by taking the first term, and the sums of the first two, first three, first four, etc., as the successive terms of a new series, from which another may be formed in the same manner, and so on, the numbers in the resulting series being such that points representing them are capable of symmetrical arrangement in different geometrical figures, as triangles, squares, pentagons, etc. Note: In the following example, the two lower lines are composed of figurate numbers, those in the second line being triangular, and represented thus: -- . 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. . . . 1, 3, 6, 10, etc. . . . . . . . etc. 1, 4, 10, 20, etc . . . . . . . . . . . .
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Figurate \Fig"ur*ate\, a. [L. figuratus, p. p. of figurare. See {Figure}.] 1. Of a definite form or figure. Plants are all figurate and determinate, which inanimate bodies are not. --Bacon. 2. Figurative; metaphorical. [Obs.] --Bale. 3. (Mus.) 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. {Figurate counterpoint} [or] {descant} (Mus.), that which is not simple, or in which the parts do not move together tone for tone, but in which freer movement of one or more parts mingles passing discords with the harmony; -- called also {figural}, {figurative}, and {figured counterpoint} or {descant} (although the term figured is more commonly applied to a bass with numerals written above or below to indicate the other notes of the harmony). {Figurate numbers} (Math.), numbers, or series of numbers, formed from any arithmetical progression in which the first term is a unit, and the difference a whole number, by taking the first term, and the sums of the first two, first three, first four, etc., as the successive terms of a new series, from which another may be formed in the same manner, and so on, the numbers in the resulting series being such that points representing them are capable of symmetrical arrangement in different geometrical figures, as triangles, squares, pentagons, etc. Note: In the following example, the two lower lines are composed of figurate numbers, those in the second line being triangular, and represented thus: -- . 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. . . . 1, 3, 6, 10, etc. . . . . . . . etc. 1, 4, 10, 20, etc . . . . . . . . . . . .
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Figurated \Fig"ur*a`ted\, a. Having a determinate form.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Figurately \Fig"urately\, adv. In a figurate manner.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Figuration \Fig`u*ra"tion\, n. [L. figuratio.] 1. The act of giving figure or determinate form; determination to a certain form. --Bacon. 2. (Mus.) Mixture of concords and discords.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Figurate \Fig"ur*ate\, a. [L. figuratus, p. p. of figurare. See {Figure}.] 1. Of a definite form or figure. Plants are all figurate and determinate, which inanimate bodies are not. --Bacon. 2. Figurative; metaphorical. [Obs.] --Bale. 3. (Mus.) 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. {Figurate counterpoint} [or] {descant} (Mus.), that which is not simple, or in which the parts do not move together tone for tone, but in which freer movement of one or more parts mingles passing discords with the harmony; -- called also {figural}, {figurative}, and {figured counterpoint} or {descant} (although the term figured is more commonly applied to a bass with numerals written above or below to indicate the other notes of the harmony). {Figurate numbers} (Math.), numbers, or series of numbers, formed from any arithmetical progression in which the first term is a unit, and the difference a whole number, by taking the first term, and the sums of the first two, first three, first four, etc., as the successive terms of a new series, from which another may be formed in the same manner, and so on, the numbers in the resulting series being such that points representing them are capable of symmetrical arrangement in different geometrical figures, as triangles, squares, pentagons, etc. Note: In the following example, the two lower lines are composed of figurate numbers, those in the second line being triangular, and represented thus: -- . 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. . . . 1, 3, 6, 10, etc. . . . . . . . etc. 1, 4, 10, 20, etc . . . . . . . . . . . .
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Figurative \Fig"urative\, a. [L. figurativus: cf. F. figuratif. See {Figurative}.] 1. Representing by a figure, or by resemblance; typical; representative. This, they will say, was figurative, and served, by God's appointment, but for a time, to shadow out the true glory of a more divine sanctity. --Hooker. 2. Used in a sense that is tropical, as a metaphor; not literal; -- applied to words and expressions. 3. Abounding in figures of speech; flowery; florid; as, a highly figurative description. 4. Relating to the representation of form or figure by drawing, carving, etc. See {Figure}, n., 2. They belonged to a nation dedicated to the figurative arts, and they wrote for a public familiar with painted form. --J. A. Symonds. {Figurative} {counterpoint [or] descant}. See under {Figurate}. -- {Fig"uratively}, adv. -- {Fig"urativeness}, n.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Figurate \Fig"ur*ate\, a. [L. figuratus, p. p. of figurare. See {Figure}.] 1. Of a definite form or figure. Plants are all figurate and determinate, which inanimate bodies are not. --Bacon. 2. Figurative; metaphorical. [Obs.] --Bale. 3. (Mus.) 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. {Figurate counterpoint} [or] {descant} (Mus.), that which is not simple, or in which the parts do not move together tone for tone, but in which freer movement of one or more parts mingles passing discords with the harmony; -- called also {figural}, {figurative}, and {figured counterpoint} or {descant} (although the term figured is more commonly applied to a bass with numerals written above or below to indicate the other notes of the harmony). {Figurate numbers} (Math.), numbers, or series of numbers, formed from any arithmetical progression in which the first term is a unit, and the difference a whole number, by taking the first term, and the sums of the first two, first three, first four, etc., as the successive terms of a new series, from which another may be formed in the same manner, and so on, the numbers in the resulting series being such that points representing them are capable of symmetrical arrangement in different geometrical figures, as triangles, squares, pentagons, etc. Note: In the following example, the two lower lines are composed of figurate numbers, those in the second line being triangular, and represented thus: -- . 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. . . . 1, 3, 6, 10, etc. . . . . . . . etc. 1, 4, 10, 20, etc . . . . . . . . . . . .
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Figurative \Fig"urative\, a. [L. figurativus: cf. F. figuratif. See {Figurative}.] 1. Representing by a figure, or by resemblance; typical; representative. This, they will say, was figurative, and served, by God's appointment, but for a time, to shadow out the true glory of a more divine sanctity. --Hooker. 2. Used in a sense that is tropical, as a metaphor; not literal; -- applied to words and expressions. 3. Abounding in figures of speech; flowery; florid; as, a highly figurative description. 4. Relating to the representation of form or figure by drawing, carving, etc. See {Figure}, n., 2. They belonged to a nation dedicated to the figurative arts, and they wrote for a public familiar with painted form. --J. A. Symonds. {Figurative} {counterpoint [or] descant}. See under {Figurate}. -- {Fig"uratively}, adv. -- {Fig"urativeness}, n.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Figurative \Fig"urative\, a. [L. figurativus: cf. F. figuratif. See {Figurative}.] 1. Representing by a figure, or by resemblance; typical; representative. This, they will say, was figurative, and served, by God's appointment, but for a time, to shadow out the true glory of a more divine sanctity. --Hooker. 2. Used in a sense that is tropical, as a metaphor; not literal; -- applied to words and expressions. 3. Abounding in figures of speech; flowery; florid; as, a highly figurative description. 4. Relating to the representation of form or figure by drawing, carving, etc. See {Figure}, n., 2. They belonged to a nation dedicated to the figurative arts, and they wrote for a public familiar with painted form. --J. A. Symonds. {Figurative} {counterpoint [or] descant}. See under {Figurate}. -- {Fig"uratively}, adv. -- {Fig"urativeness}, n.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Figurative \Fig"urative\, a. [L. figurativus: cf. F. figuratif. See {Figurative}.] 1. Representing by a figure, or by resemblance; typical; representative. This, they will say, was figurative, and served, by God's appointment, but for a time, to shadow out the true glory of a more divine sanctity. --Hooker. 2. Used in a sense that is tropical, as a metaphor; not literal; -- applied to words and expressions. 3. Abounding in figures of speech; flowery; florid; as, a highly figurative description. 4. Relating to the representation of form or figure by drawing, carving, etc. See {Figure}, n., 2. They belonged to a nation dedicated to the figurative arts, and they wrote for a public familiar with painted form. --J. A. Symonds. {Figurative} {counterpoint [or] descant}. See under {Figurate}. -- {Fig"uratively}, adv. -- {Fig"urativeness}, n.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Figure \Fig"ure\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Figured}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Figuring}.] [F. figurer, L. figurare, fr. figura. See {Figure}, n.] 1. 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. If love, alas! be pain I bear, No thought can figure, and no tongue declare.Prior. 2. To embellish with design; to adorn with figures. The vaulty top of heaven Figured quite o'er with burning meteors. --Shak. 3. To indicate by numerals; also, to compute. As through a crystal glass the figured hours are seen. --Dryden. 4. To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize. Whose white vestments figure innocence. --Shak. 5. To prefigure; to foreshow. In this the heaven figures some event. --Shak. 6. (Mus.) (a) To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords. (b) To embellish. {To figure out}, to solve; to compute or find the result of. {To figure up}, to add; to reckon; to compute the amount of.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Figured \Fig"ured\, a. 1. Adorned with figures; marked with figures; as, figured muslin. 2. Not literal; figurative. [Obs.] --Locke. 3. (Mus.) (a) Free and florid; as, a figured descant. See {Figurate}, 3. (b) Indicated or noted by figures. {Figured bass}. See {Continued bass}, under {Continued}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Figured \Fig"ured\, a. 1. Adorned with figures; marked with figures; as, figured muslin. 2. Not literal; figurative. [Obs.] --Locke. 3. (Mus.) (a) Free and florid; as, a figured descant. See {Figurate}, 3. (b) Indicated or noted by figures. {Figured bass}. See {Continued bass}, under {Continued}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Figurate \Fig"ur*ate\, a. [L. figuratus, p. p. of figurare. See {Figure}.] 1. Of a definite form or figure. Plants are all figurate and determinate, which inanimate bodies are not. --Bacon. 2. Figurative; metaphorical. [Obs.] --Bale. 3. (Mus.) 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. {Figurate counterpoint} [or] {descant} (Mus.), that which is not simple, or in which the parts do not move together tone for tone, but in which freer movement of one or more parts mingles passing discords with the harmony; -- called also {figural}, {figurative}, and {figured counterpoint} or {descant} (although the term figured is more commonly applied to a bass with numerals written above or below to indicate the other notes of the harmony). {Figurate numbers} (Math.), numbers, or series of numbers, formed from any arithmetical progression in which the first term is a unit, and the difference a whole number, by taking the first term, and the sums of the first two, first three, first four, etc., as the successive terms of a new series, from which another may be formed in the same manner, and so on, the numbers in the resulting series being such that points representing them are capable of symmetrical arrangement in different geometrical figures, as triangles, squares, pentagons, etc. Note: In the following example, the two lower lines are composed of figurate numbers, those in the second line being triangular, and represented thus: -- . 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. . . . 1, 3, 6, 10, etc. . . . . . . . etc. 1, 4, 10, 20, etc . . . . . . . . . . . .
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Figurehead \Fig"ure*head`\, n. 1. (Naut.) The figure, statue, or bust, on the prow of a ship. 2. 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Figwort \Fig"wort`\, n. (Bot.) A genus of herbaceous plants ({Scrophularia}), mostly found in the north temperate zones. See {Brownwort}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fissuration \Fis`su*ra"tion\, n. (Anat.) The act of dividing or opening; the state of being fissured.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Fiord \[d8]Fiord\ (fy[?]rd; i or y consonant, [sect] 272), n. [Dan. & Norw. fiord. See {Frith}.] A narrow inlet of the sea, penetrating between high banks or rocks, as on the coasts of Norway and Alaska. [Written also {fjord}.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fosse \Fosse\, n. [F., fr. L. fossa, fr. fodere, fossum, to dig.] 1. (Fort.) A ditch or moat. 2. (Anat.) See {Fossa}. {Fosse road}. See {Fosseway}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Foxearth \Fox"earth`\, n. A hole in the earth to which a fox resorts to hide himself.
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