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A female figurant; esp., a ballet girl.

Of a definite form or figure. Plants are all figurate and determinate, which inanimate bodies are not. Bacon.

Having a determinate form.

In a figurate manner.

The act of giving figure or determinate form; determination to a certain form. Bacon.

Representing by a figure, or by resemblance; typical; representative. This, they will say, was figurative, and served, by God's appointment, but for a time, to shadow out the true glory of a more divine sanctity. Hooker.

The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance. Flowers have all exquisite figures. Bacon.

Adorned with figures; marked with figures; as, figured muslin.

The figure, statue, or bust, on the prow of a ship.

Represented by figure or delineation. [R.] Craig.

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.

One who uses or interprets figurative expressions. Waterland.

A genus of herbaceous plants (Scrophularia), mostly found in the north temperate zones. See Brownwort.

A barbarous sport, of great antiquity, in which men torment, and fight with, a bull or bulls in an arena, for public amusement, -- still popular in Spain. -- Bull"fight`er (, n.

One accustomed to bushfighting. Parkman.

Fighting in the bush, or from behind bushes, trees, or thickets.

A duel; the decision of a case by a duel.

Barriers with loopholes, formerly erected on the deck of a vessel to shelter the men in a close engagement with an enemy's boarders; -- called also close quarters. [Obs.]

A plant of Central and Southern Anerica, of the Cactus familly, extensively cultivated for the sake of the cochineal insect, which lives on it.

A match or contest of gamecocks.