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be operated. -- Dial plate, the plane or disk of a dial or timepiece on which lines and figures for indicating the time are placed.

A figure by which arguments are placed in various points of view, and then turned to one point. Smart.

Any right line passing through the center of a figure or body, as a circle, conic section, sphere, cube, etc., and terminated by the opposite boundaries; a straight line which bisects a system of parallel chords drawn in a curve.

A geometrical figure, consisting of four equal straight lines, and having two of the interior angles acute and two obtuse; a rhombus; a lozenge.

Having figures like a diamond or lozenge.

ce decoration of any sort which consists of the constant repetition of one or more simple figures or units of design evenly spaced.

A woven silk stuff with transparent and colored figures; diaper work.

A figure by which a syllable naturally short is made long.

One of the ten figures or symbols, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, by which all numbers are expressed; -- so called because of the use of the fingers in counting and computing.

A figure with two sides or surfaces. Buchanan.

At first her eye with slow dilation rolled. Tennyson. A gigantic dilation of the hateful figure. Dickens.

An ambiguous speech; a figure in which a word is used an equivocal sense. [R.]

along which a describent line or surface is carried in the genesis of any plane or solid figure; a directrix. Hutton.

To disfigure. [Obs.] Sir T. More.

The act of disfiguring, or the state of being disfigured; defacement; deformity; disfigurement. Gauden.

f form; unlikeness in form. Uniformity or disformity in comparing together the respective figures of bodies. S. Clarke.

Dishonored; disgraced; disfigured. [Obs.] Dishonest with lopped arms the youth appears, Spoiled of his nose and shortened of his ears. Dryden.

The circular figure of a celestial body, as seen projected of the heavens.

To become fluid; to be melted; to be liquefied. A figure Trenched in ice, which with an hour's heat Dissolves to water, and doth lose his form. Shak.

rocess, the cell nucleus undergoes peculiar differentiations and changes, as shown in the figure (see also Karyokinesis). At the same time the protoplasm of the cell becomes gradually constricted by a furrow transverse to the long axis of the nuclear spindle, followed, on the completion of the division of the nucleus,…