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a person; the whole turn or style of the body; esp., good appearance. What needeth it his feature to descrive Chaucer. Cheated of feature by dissembling nature. Shak.

Shaped; fashioned. How noble, young, how rarely featured! Shak.

Having no distinct or distinctive features.

Having features; showing marked peculiarities; handsome. [R.] Featurely warriors of Christian chivalry. Coleridge.

The artificial features of a district as distinguished from the natural.

Overthrow; defeat. [Obs.] "Nothing but loss in their defeature." Beau. & Fl.

Changed in features; deformed. [R.] Features when defeatured in the . . . way I have described. De Quincey.

To deprive of features; to mar the features of. [R.]

Having coarse, unattractive or stern features. Smollett.

Ill feature. [R.] Keats.

Wanting regular features; deformed. "Visage rough, deformed, unfeatured, and a skin of buff." Dryden.

Exaggerated representation. By a little aggravation of the features changed it into the Saracen's head. Addison.

g or judging of a man's character, passions. and inclinations from a study of his visible features. [R.]

e or to give light; sometimes closed at the back (as in the cut) and forming a decorative feature.

That which attracts; an attractive object or feature.

The lower part of a wall, pier, or column, when treated as a separate feature, usually in projection, or especially ornamented.

whole parapet, consisting of alternate solids and open spaces. At first purely a military feature, afterwards copied on a smaller scale with decorative features, as for churches.

A particular grace, feature, ornament, or excellence; anything beautiful; as, the beauties of nature.

ng from a wall or pier, to support weight falling outside of the same; also, a decorative feature seeming to discharge such an office.

A contorted expression, as of the face. [R.] 'Gainst nature armed by gravity, His features too in buckle see. Churchill.