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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.

instrument. [R.] She has a good finger. Busby. Ear finger, the little finger. -- Finger alphabet. See Dactylology. -- Finger bar, the horizontal bar, carrying slotted spikes, or fingers, through which the vibratory knives of mowing and reaping machines play. -- Finger board (Mus.), the part of a stringed instrument…

exhibition. [Obs. in the sing.] Night before last, the Duke of Richmond gave a firework. Walpole.

the East and West Indies to certain trees with brilliant blossoms, probably species of Cæsalpinia.

at; as, to fling a party in litigation. His horse started, flung him, and fell upon him. Walpole.

A tropical leguminous bush (Poinciana, or Cæsalpinia, pulcherrima) with prickly branches, and showy yellow or red flowers; -- so named from its having been sometimes used for hedges in the West Indies. Baird.

The capacity or ability to fluctuate. [R.] H. Walpole.

en to the series of sandstones and schists overlying the true nummulitic formation in the Alps, and included in the Eocene Tertiary.

A warm dry wind that often blows in the northern valleys of the Alps, due to the indraught of a storm center passing over Central Europe. The wind, heated by compression in its descent from the mountains, reaches the base, particularly in winter, dry and warm.

rtment of printing type of one size, including a due proportion of all the letters in the alphabet, large and small, points, accents, and whatever else is necessary for printing with that variety of types; a fount.

k; footing; -- used only in the singular. [R.] As to his being on the foot of a servant. Walpole.

Formidableness. Walpole.

Causing fracture; breaking. [R.] H. Walpole.

Palpable vibration or thrill; as, the rhonchial fremitus.

the other fry. Milton. We have burned two frigates, and a hundred and twenty small fry. Walpole.

Pompous; ridiculously tumid; inflated; bombastic; as, fustian history. Walpole.

The Runic alphabet; -- so called from the six letters f, u, þ (th), o (or a), r, c (=k).

G is the seventh letter of the English alphabet, and a vocal consonant. It has two sounds; one simple, as in gave, go, gull; the other compound (like that of j), as in gem, gin, dingy. See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 231-6, 155, 176, 178, 179, 196, 211, 246.

The pungent aromatic rhizome or tuber of certain East Indian or Chinese species of Alpinia (A. Galanga and A. officinarum) and of the Kæmpferia Galanga), -- all of the Ginger family.

talk; confused mixture. Her dress, like her talk, is a galimatias of several countries. Walpole.