FIGURE

Definitions

1. 1. The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance. Flowers have all exquisite figures. Bacon.
2. 2. 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. A coin that bears the figure of an angel. Shak.
3. 3. A pattern in cloth, paper, or other manufactured article; a design wrought out in a fabric; as, the muslin was of a pretty figure.
4. 4. A diagram or drawing; made to represent a magnitude or the relation of two or more magnitudes; a surface or space inclosed on all sides; -- called superficial when inclosed by lines, and solid when inclosed by surface; any arrangement made up of points, lines, angles, surfaces, etc.
5. 5. The appearance or impression made by the conduct or carrer of a person; as, a sorry figure. I made some figure there. Dryden. Gentlemen of the best figure in the county. Blackstone.
6. 6. Distinguished appearance; magnificence; conspicuous representation; splendor; show. That he may live in figure and indulgence. Law.
7. 7. A character or symbol representing a number; a numeral; a digit; as, 1, 2,3, etc.
8. 8. Value, as expressed in numbers; price; as, the goods are estimated or sold at a low figure. [Colloq.] With nineteen thousand a year at the very lowest figure. Thackeray.
9. 9. A person, thing, or action, conceived of as analogous to another person, thing, or action, of which it thus becomes a type or representative. Who is the figure of Him that was to come. Rom. v. 14.
10. 10. 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. To represent the imagination under the figure of a wing. Macaulay.
11. 11. The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term.
12. 12. Any one of the several regular steps or movements made by a dancer.
13. 13. A horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses. Johnson.
14. 14. Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression. Grove.
15. 15. A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a musical or motive; a florid embellishment.