A visible pattern as in wood or cloth.
A number, an amount.
A drawing or diagram conveying information.
A human figure, which dress or corset must fit to; the shape of a human body.
A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a motif; a florid embellishment.
The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term.
A figure of speech.
The appearance or impression made by the conduct or career of a person.
A person or thing representing a certain consciousness.
A numeral.
A horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses.
Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression.
The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modelling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body.
A shape.
Any complex dance moveᵂ.
To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.
To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords.
To calculate, to solve a mathematical problem.
To enter into; to be a part of.
To think, to assume, to suppose, to reckon.
To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.
To embellish.
To come to understand.
To be reasonable.
A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather (transitive verb).
A gathering.
The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.
To grow gradually larger by accretion.
To bring stitches closer together.
To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.
To haul in; to take up.
To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
To congregate, or assemble.
Especially, to harvest food.
To collect; normally separate things.
To bring parts of a whole closer.
To gain; to win.
To be filled with pus
To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width.
To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as for example where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue.