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The act or practice of pitting gamecocks to fight.

by the name of uniformity; Where pyramids to pyramids relate And the whole fabric doth configurate. Jordan.

Form, as depending on the relative disposition of the parts of a thing' shape; figure. It is the variety of configurations [of the mouth] . . . which gives birth and origin to the several vowels. Harris.

To arrange or dispose in a certain form, figure, or shape. Bentley.

Disfiguration; mutilation. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

To delineate. [Obs.] These two stones as they are here defigured. Weever.

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

To mar the figure of; to render less complete, perfect, or beautiful in appearance; to deface; to deform. Disfiguring not God's likeness, but their own. Milton.

Act of disfiguring, or state of being disfigured; deformity. Milton.

One who disfigures.

Relating to an effigy.

To form as an effigy; hence, to fashion; to adapt. [He must] effigiate and conform himself to those circumstances. Jer. Taylor.

The act of forming in resemblance; an effigy. Fuller.

See Effigy. Dryden.

The image, likeness, or representation of a person, whether a full figure, or a part; an imitative figure; -- commonly applied to sculptured likenesses, as those on monuments, or to those of the heads of princes on coins and medals, sometimes applied to portraits. To burn, or To hang, in effigy, to burn or to hang an i…

A kind of figs of superior quality.

A conflict by persons on foot; -- distinguished from a fight on horseback. Sir P. Sidney.

A fight with the hands; boxing. "Pollux loves handyfights." B. Jonson.

To prefigure. [R.] Grafton.

The act of prefiguring, or the state of being prefigured. A variety of prophecies and prefigurations. Norris.