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A plane four-sided figure, having two sides parallel to each other.

und that the boar had trenched In his soft flank. Shak. This weak impress of love is as a figure Trenched in ice, which with an hour's heat Dissolves to water, and doth lose its form. Shak.

A figure bounded by three lines, and containing three angles.

A figure having three angles; a triangle.

A figure having three sides.

A figure composed of three branches, usually curved, radiating from a center, as the figure composed of three human legs, with bent knees, which has long been used as a badge or symbol of Sicily and of the Isle of Man.

original signification to another, for the sake of giving life or emphasis to an idea; a figure of speech.

avoids the literal sense of the language of Scripture by explaining it as mere tropes and figures of speech.

A figure or representation of something to come; a token; a sign; a symbol; -- correlative to antitype. A type is no longer a type when the thing typified comes to be actually exhibited. South.

The act of typifying, or representing by a figure.

A stone or fossil which has on it impressions or figures of plants and animals.

To disfigure; to make ugly. [R.] Mad. D'Arblay.

A figure having eleven angles and eleven sides.

ike; as, he betrayed him under the guise of friendship; Morpheus is represented under the figure of a boy asleep. A crew who, under names of old renown . . . abused Fanatic Egypt. Milton. Mr. Duke may be mentioned under the double capacity of a poet and a divine. Felton. Under this head may come in the several contests…

rt or dexterous; clumsy; awkward; uncouth; as, an ungainly strut in walking. His ungainly figure and eccentric manners. Macaulay.

Similitude between the parts of a whole; as, the uniformity of sides in a regular figure; beauty is said to consist in uniformity with variety.

The shaft of a terminus, from which the bust of figure seems to issue or arise.

. Counter vair (Her.), a fur resembling vair, except in the arrangement of the patches or figures.

Charged with vair; variegated with shield-shaped figures. See Vair.

Having leaves like those of the vine; ornamented with vine leaves. "Vined and figured columns." Sir H. Wotton.