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Lace whose pattern includes one or more representations of baskets or bowls from which flowers spring.

placed after the word it qualifies; as, malice prepense. This has not arisen from any misrepresentation or error prepense. Southey.

exhibition; representation; display; appearance; semblance; show. Under the presentation of the shoots his wit. Shak.

Setting forth to view; delineation; appearance; representation; exhibition. Power to cheat the eye with blear illusion, And give it false presentment. Milton.

The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction of a line drawn through it from a given point of sight, or central point…

political division of the Dominion of Canada, having a governor, a local legislature, and representation in the Dominion parliament. Hence, colloquially, The Provinces, the Dominion of Canada.

Hence, fixed relation of number, quantity, or degree; rate; proportion; as, the ratio of representation in Congress. Compound ratio, Duplicate ratio, Inverse ratio, etc. See under Compound, Duplicate, etc. -- Ratio of a geometrical progression, the constant quantity by which each term is multiplied to produce the succ…

Fidelity to nature or to real life; representation without idealization, and making no appeal to the imagination; adherence to the actual fact.

hose names resemble those words, or the syllables of which they are composed; enigmatical representation of words by figures; hence, a peculiar form of riddle made up of such representations.

Representation made in opposition; remonstrance. I would now, on the reclamation both of generosity and of justice, try clemency. Landor.

notice of another; to commit to another's care, confidence, or acceptance, with favoring representations; to put in a favorable light before any one; to bestow commendation on; as, he recommended resting the mind and exercising the body. Mæcenas recommended Virgil and Horace to Augustus, whose praises . . . have made…

Explanation; representation. [R.] The reddition or application of the comparison. Chapman.

s), acts of Parliament passed in 1832, 1867, 1884, 1885, extending and equalizing popular representation in Parliament. -- Reform school, a school established by a state or city government, for the confinement, instruction, and reformation of juvenile offenders, and of young persons of idle, vicious, and vagrant habit…

To recite or repeat in private for experiment and improvement, before a public representation; as, to rehearse a tragedy.

Representation; likeness. [Obs.] Donne.

Representation. [Obs.]

To make an image or other representation of; to portray; to cause to exist in the memory or imagination; to make a copy of; as, to reproduce a person's features in marble, or on canvas; to reproduce a design.

That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness. These sensible things, which religion hath allowed, are resemblances formed according to things spiritual. Hooker.

A representation in sculpture or in painting of the cross with Christ hanging on it.

osition and arrangement of the scenes in which the action of a play, poem, etc., is laid; representation of place of action or occurence.