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FIG'URATIVE, a. 1. Representing something else; representing by resemblance; typ...
FIG'URATIVELY, adv. by a figure; in a manner to exhibit ideas by resemblance; in...
FIG'URE, n. fig'ur. [L. figura, from figo, to fix or set. See Feign .] 1. The fo...
FIG'URE-CASTER, FIG'URE-FLINGER, n. A pretender to astrology.
FIG'URE-STONE, n. A name of the agalmatolite, or bildstein.
FIG'URED, pp. 1. Represented by resemblance; adorned with figures; formed into a...
FIG'URING, ppr. Forming into determinate shape; representing by types or resembl...
FILA'CEOUS, a. [L. filum, a thread.] Composed or consisting of threads.
FIL'ACER, n. An officer in the English Court of Common Pleas, so called from fil...
FIL'AMENT, n. [L. filamenta, threads, from filum.] A thread; a fiber. In anatomy...
FILAMENT'OUS, a. Like a thread; consisting of fine filaments.
FIL'ANDERS, n. A disease in hawks, consisting of filaments of coagulated blood; ...
FIL'ATORY, n. [from L. filum, a thread.] A machine which forms or spins threads....
FIL'BERT, n. [L. avellana, with which the first syllable corresponds; fil, vel.]...
FILCH, v.t. [This word, like pilfer, is probably from the root of file, or peel,...
FILCH'ED, pp. Stolen; taken wrongfully from another; pillaged; pilfered.