Figure (n.) A person, thing, or action, conceived of as analogous to another person, thing, or action, of which it thus becomes a type or representative.
Figure (n.) 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.
Figure (n.) The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term.
Figure (n.) Any one of the several regular steps or movements made by a dancer.
Figure (n.) A horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses.
Figure (n.) Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression.
Figure (n.) A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a musical or motive; a florid embellishment.
Figured (imp. & p. p.) of Figure
Figuring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Figure
Figure (n.) 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.
Figure (n.) To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.
Figure (n.) To indicate by numerals; also, to compute.
Figure (n.) To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.
Figure (n.) To prefigure; to foreshow.
Figure (n.) To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords.
Figure (n.) To embellish.
Figure (v. t.) To make a figure; to be distinguished or conspicious; as, the envoy figured at court.
Figure (v. t.) To calculate; to contrive; to scheme; as, he is figuring to secure the nomination.
Figured (a.) Adorned with figures; marked with figures; as, figured muslin.
Figured (a.) Not literal; figurative.
Figured (a.) Free and florid; as, a figured descant. See Figurate, 3.
Figured (a.) Indicated or noted by figures.
Figurehead (n.) The figure, statue, or bust, on the prow of a ship.
Figurehead (n.) 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.
Figurial (a.) Represented by figure or delineation.
Figurine (n.) 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.
Figurist (n.) One who uses or interprets figurative expressions.
Figwort (n.) A genus of herbaceous plants (Scrophularia), mostly found in the north temperate zones. See Brownwort.
Fijian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Fiji islands or their inhabitants.
Fijian (n.) A native of the Fiji islands.
Fike (n.) See Fyke.
Fil () imp. of Fall, v. i. Fell.
Filaceous (a.) Composed of threads.
Filacer (n.) A former officer in the English Court of Common Pleas; -- so called because he filed the writs on which he made out process.
Filament (n.) A thread or threadlike object or appendage; a fiber; esp. (Bot.), the threadlike part of the stamen supporting the anther.
Filamentary (a.) Having the character of, or formed by, a filament.
Filametoid (a.) Like a filament.
Filamentous (a.) Like a thread; consisting of threads or filaments.
Filander (n.) A species of kangaroo (Macropus Brunii), inhabiting New Guinea.
Filanders (n. pl.) A disease in hawks, characterized by the presence of small threadlike worms, also of filaments of coagulated blood, from the rupture of a vein; -- called also backworm.
Filar (a.) Of or pertaining to a thread or line; characterized by threads stretched across the field of view; as, a filar microscope; a filar micrometer.
Filaria (n.) A genus of slender, nematode worms of many species, parasitic in various animals. See Guinea worm.
Filatory (n.) A machine for forming threads.
Filature (n.) A drawing out into threads; hence, the reeling of silk from cocoons.
Filature (n.) A reel for drawing off silk from cocoons; also, an establishment for reeling silk.
Filbert (n.) The fruit of the Corylus Avellana or hazel. It is an oval nut, containing a kernel that has a mild, farinaceous, oily taste, agreeable to the palate.
Filched (imp. & p. p.) of Filch
Filching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Filch
Filch (v. t.) To steal or take privily (commonly, that which is of little value); to pilfer.
Filcher (n.) One who filches; a thief.
Filchingly (adv.) By pilfering or petty stealing.
File (n.) An orderly succession; a line; a row
File (n.) A row of soldiers ranged one behind another; -- in contradistinction to rank, which designates a row of soldiers standing abreast; a number consisting the depth of a body of troops, which, in the ordinary modern formation, consists of two men, the battalion standing two deep, or in two ranks.
File (n.) An orderly collection of papers, arranged in sequence or classified for preservation and reference; as, files of letters or of newspapers; this mail brings English files to the 15th instant.
File (n.) The line, wire, or other contrivance, by which papers are put and kept in order.
File (n.) A roll or list.
File (n.) Course of thought; thread of narration.
Filed (imp. & p. p.) of File
Filing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of File
File (v. t.) To set in order; to arrange, or lay away, esp. as papers in a methodical manner for preservation and reverence; to place on file; to insert in its proper place in an arranged body of papers.
File (v. t.) To bring before a court or legislative body by presenting proper papers in a regular way; as, to file a petition or bill.
File (v. t.) To put upon the files or among the records of a court; to note on (a paper) the fact date of its reception in court.
File (v. i.) To march in a file or line, as soldiers, not abreast, but one after another; -- generally with off.
File (n.) A steel instrument, having cutting ridges or teeth, made by indentation with a chisel, used for abrading or smoothing other substances, as metals, wood, etc.
File (n.) Anything employed to smooth, polish, or rasp, literally or figuratively.
File (n.) A shrewd or artful person.
File (v. t.) To rub, smooth, or cut away, with a file; to sharpen with a file; as, to file a saw or a tooth.
File (v. t.) To smooth or polish as with a file.
File (v. t.) To make foul; to defile.
Filefish (n.) Any plectognath fish of the genera Monacanthus, Alutera, balistes, and allied genera; -- so called on account of the roughly granulated skin, which is sometimes used in place of sandpaper.
Filemot (n.) See Feullemort.
Filer (n.) One who works with a file.
Filial (a.) Of or pertaining to a son or daughter; becoming to a child in relation to his parents; as, filial obedience.
Filial (a.) Bearing the relation of a child.
Filially (adv.) In a filial manner.
Filiate (v. t.) To adopt as son or daughter; to establish filiation between.
Filiation (n.) The relationship of a son or child to a parent, esp. to a father.
Filiation (n.) The assignment of a bastard child to some one as its father; affiliation.
Filibeg (n.) Same as Kilt.
Filibuster (n.) A lawless military adventurer, especially one in quest of plunder; a freebooter; -- originally applied to buccaneers infesting the Spanish American coasts, but introduced into common English to designate the followers of Lopez in his expedition to Cuba in 1851, and those of Walker in his expedition to Nicaragua, in 1855.
Fillibustered (imp. & p. p.) of Filibuster
Filibustering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Filibuster
Filibuster (v. i.) To act as a filibuster, or military freebooter.
Filibuster (v. i.) To delay legislation, by dilatory motions or other artifices.
Filibusterism (n.) The characteristics or practices of a filibuster.
Filical (a.) Belonging to the Filices, r ferns.
Filicic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, ferns; as, filicic acid.
Filicide (n.) The act of murdering a son or a daughter; also, parent who commits such a murder.
Filiciform (a.) Shaped like a fern or like the parts of a fern leaf.
Filicoid (a.) Fernlike, either in form or in the nature of the method of reproduction.
Filicoid (n.) A fernlike plant.
Filiety (n.) The relation of a son to a father; sonship; -- the correlative of paternity.
Filiferous (a.) Producing threads.
Filiform (a.) Having the shape of a thread or filament; as, the filiform papillae of the tongue; a filiform style or peduncle. See Illust. of AntennAe.
Filigrain (n.) Alt. of Filigrane
Filigrane (n.) Filigree.
Filigraned (a.) See Filigreed.
Filigree (n.) Ornamental work, formerly with grains or breads, but now composed of fine wire and used chiefly in decorating gold and silver to which the wire is soldered, being arranged in designs frequently of a delicate and intricate arabesque pattern.
Filigree (a.) Relating to, composed of, or resembling, work in filigree; as, a filigree basket. Hence: Fanciful; unsubstantial; merely decorative.
Filigreed (a.) Adorned with filigree.