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To tend to by affinity or disposition. The drops of every fluid affect a round figure. Newton.

An attribute; a quality or property; a condition; a bodily state; as, figure, weight, etc. , are affections of bodies. "The affections of quantity." Boyle. And, truly, waking dreams were, more or less, An old and strange affection of the house. Tennyson.

rayish, greenish, or yellowish color, carved into images by the Chinese, and hence called figure stone, and pagodite. It is probably a variety of pinite.

A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals. [Obs.] Shak.

A figure of a lamb bearing a cross or flag.

The art of calculating by nine figures and zero.

A figure representation which has a meaning beyond notion directly conveyed by the object painted or sculptured.

A figure in dancing.

The perpendicular distance from the base of a figure to the summit, or to the side parallel to the base; as, the altitude of a triangle, pyramid, parallelogram, frustum, etc.

High relief; sculptured work in which the figures project more than half their thickness; as, this figure is an alto-rilievo or in alto-rilievo.

An obtuse-angled figure, esp. and obtuse-angled triangle. [Obs.]

An early coin struck by the dukes of Milan, and bearing the figure of St. Ambrose on horseback.

The achromatic figure, formed in mitotic cell-division, consisting of two asters connected by a spindle-shaped bundle of rodlike fibers diverging from each aster, and called the spindle.

A kind of figured stone, rugged and beset with eminences, anciently used in divination. [Obs.] Encyc. Brit.

A figure by which a speaker appeals to his hearers or opponents for their opinion on the point in debate. Walker.

anatomy, as in art. The stretched and vivid anatomism of their [i. e., the French] great figure painters. The London Spectator.

An ancient gold coin of England, bearing the figure of the archangel Michael. It varied in value from 6s. 8d. to 10s. Amer. Cyc.

The figure made by. two lines which meet.

g an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner; sharp-cornered; pointed; as, an angular figure.

An optical toy for producing amusing figures or pictures by means of two revolving disks, on one of which distorted figures are painted.