FIGURE

Definitions

1. 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. 2. To embellish with design; to adorn with figures. The vaulty top of heaven Figured quite o'er with burning meteors. Shak.
3. 3. To indicate by numerals; also, to compute. As through a crystal glass the figured hours are seen. Dryden.
4. 4. To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize. Whose white vestments figure innocence. Shak.
5. 5. To prefigure; to foreshow. In this the heaven figures some event. Shak.
6. 6. To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords.
7. 7. 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.