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Having or consisting of lines resembling a map; as, the maplike figures in which certain lichens grow.

make defective; to do injury to, esp. by cutting off or defacing a part; to impair; to disfigure; to deface. I pray you mar no more trees with wiring love songs in their barks. Shak. But mirth is marred, and the good cheer is lost. Dryden. Ire, envy, and despair Which marred all his borrowed visage. Milton.…

A visible sign or impression made or left upon anything; esp., a line, point, stamp, figure, or the like, drawn or impressed, so as to attract the attention and convey some information or intimation; a token; a trace. The Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him. Gen. iv. 15.

To be of equal, or similar, size, figure, color, or quality; to tally; to suit; to correspond; as, these vases match.

urface; unburnished; as, matted gold leaf or gilding. Matted glass, glass ornamented with figures on a dull ground.

being mean; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess. This figure is of a later date, by the meanness of the workmanship. Addison.

n two bars. See Beat, Triple, Quadruple, Sextuple, Compound time, under Compound, a., and Figure.

A circular or oval (or, sometimes, square) tablet bearing a figure or figures represented in relief.

t or practice of solving arithmetical problems by mental processes, unassisted by written figures.

appearance seen in the atmosphere, or in a more elevated region. The vaulty top of heaven Figured quite o'er with burning meteors. Shak.

A middle degree of relief in figures, between high and low relief.

A figure supposed to represent the iron which holds a millstone by being set into its center.

A figure which strikes the hour on the bell of some fanciful clocks; -- called also jack of the clock house.

To shape ill; to give an ill or unnatural from to; to deform. "Figures monstrous and misshaped." Pope.

A spot; a stain; a mark which discolors or disfigures. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

A thick woolen fabric, watered or with embossed figures; -- used in upholstery, for curtains, etc.

An old game played with counters, or men, which are placed angles of a figure drawn on a board or on the ground; also, the board or ground on which the game is played. The nine-men's morris is filled up with mud. Shak.

passage which is reproduced and varied through the course of a comor a movement; a short figure, or melodic germ, out of which a whole movement is develpoed. See also Leading motive, under Leading. [Written also motivo.]

untains (as on the Brocken) when the observer is between the sun and a mass of cloud. The figures of the observer and surrounding objects are seen projected on the cloud, greatly enlarged and often encircled by rainbow colors.

A figure made up of a large number of straight lines or curves, which are connected at certain points and related to each other by some specified law.