Crossword clues for figured
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Figure \Fig"ure\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Figured; p. pr. & vb. n. Figuring.] [F. figurer, L. figurare, fr. figura. See Figure, n.]
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To represent by a figure, as to form or mold; to make an image of, either palpable or ideal; also, to fashion into a determinate form; to shape.
If love, alas! be pain I bear,
No thought can figure, and no tongue declare.Prior.
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To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.
The vaulty top of heaven Figured quite o'er with burning meteors.
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To indicate by numerals; also, to compute.
As through a crystal glass the figured hours are seen.
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To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.
Whose white vestments figure innocence.
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To prefigure; to foreshow.
In this the heaven figures some event.
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To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords.
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To embellish.
To figure out, to solve; to compute or find the result of.
To figure up, to add; to reckon; to compute the amount of.
Figured \Fig"ured\, a.
Adorned with figures; marked with figures; as, figured muslin.
Not literal; figurative. [Obs.]
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(Mus.)
Free and florid; as, a figured descant. See Figurate, 3.
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Indicated or noted by figures.
Figured bass. See Continued bass, under Continued.
Wiktionary
1 (lb en of a natural material) Having a pattern considered attractive appearing on a section. 2 Adorned with a figure or figures. v
(en-past of: figure)
WordNet
adj. of e.g. fabric design; "my dress is richly figured"- Amy Lowell
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "figured".
He had figured to himself some passionate hysterique, merciless as a cat in her hate and her love, a zealous abettor, perhaps even the ruling spirit in the crime.
They figured the Kurds, Afghanis, and Tuaregs already there would like a bit of smoke, and they could always refine opium into heroin if the Irish and Basques preferred needles to pipes.
Just as I figured out that it was the telephone making the noise, Amrita came in from the bathroom and answered it.
I was hesitant to beg the Venediger for help, so I had to do something myself to get the aquamanile back, and since everyone kept telling me I was a Guardian, I figured I might as well start acting like one.
It even figured in the prospectus of Homewood, the Arling Avenue day school for girls and little boys which the Misses Chibwell had carried on with equal success and inconspicuousness until the Severe affair suddenly brought them into the glare of a terrifying publicity.
I figured I had about a week and a half left of exchanging leftover baht and rupees before I completely ran out of cash, and the only way to get money from my parents was to return to the never-ending circuit of second opinions.
I wonder how much my Bene Gesserit business training figured in his choice of me.
Jemima had not figured Randall Birley as at all political, unlike Millie Swain, but perhaps he had been persuaded by Millie to do a commercial for the Labour-Liberal coalition.
In a second the two were bitching away at each other in what Kacey figured was Georgian.
Soon after I found my food I figured I might as well settle for some out-of-the-way place rather than go bothering people in the middle of the night.
If Kamahl had been a Cabalist or a merchant, he would have bantered and negotiated and otherwise extended the discussion until he figured out a way to profit from it.
Given the identities of the few local celebs I recognized, I figured the club must charge enough in dues that the decorations were probably realthetic.
Tom figured that if Chub, or Torbert, found out what was hidden behind the closet in Hollis Fifteen, Chub would certainly inform the woman he loved.
And nobody remembering that Foster figured the civvies would chill us--and he was right.
In this collection figured, among others, some specimens of those new staphylins, species of carnivorous coleopters, whose eyes are placed above the head, and which, till then, seemed to be peculiar to New Caledonia.