Word Meanings - ASTERISK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The figure of a star, thus,

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• FIGUREHEAD
  The figure, statue, or bust, on the prow of a ship. 2. A person who allows his name to be used to give standing to enterprises in which he has no responsible interest or duties; a nominal, but not real, head or chief.
• FIGURED
  1. Adorned with figures; marked with figures; as, figured muslin. 2. Not literal; figurative. Locke. Free and florid; as, a figured descant. See Figurate, 3. Indicated or noted by figures. Figured bass. See Continued bass, under Continued.
• FIGURE
  A diagram or drawing; made to represent a magnitude or the relation of two or more magnitudes; a surface or space inclosed on all sides; -- called superficial when inclosed by lines, and solid when inclosed by surface; any arrangement made up of
• CONFIGURE
  To arrange or dispose in a certain form, figure, or shape. Bentley.
• WIDMANSTATTEN FIGURES; WIDMANSTAETTEN FIGURES
  Certain figures appearing on etched meteoric iron; -- so called after A. B. Widmanstätten, of Vienna, who first described them in 1808. See the Note and Illust. under Meteorite.
• DISFIGURER
  One who disfigures.
• DEFIGURE
  To delineate. These two stones as they are here defigured. Weever.
• REFIGURE
  To figure again. Shak.
• PREFIGUREMENT
  The act of prefiguring; prefiguration; also, that which is prefigured. Carlyle.
• DISFIGURE
  To mar the figure of; to render less complete, perfect, or beautiful in appearance; to deface; to deform. Disfiguring not God's likeness, but their own. Milton. Syn. -- To deface; deform; mar; injure. (more info) dis-) + figurer to fashion, shape,
• TRANSFIGURE
  transfiguratum; trans across, over + figurare to form, shape. See 1. To change the outward form or appearance of; to metamorphose; to transform. 2. Especially, to change to something exalted and glorious; to give an ideal form to. was transfigured
• PREFIGURE
  To show, suggest, or announce, by antecedent types and similitudes; to foreshadow. "Whom all the various types prefigured." South. (more info) praefiguratum; prae before + figurare to figure. See Figure, and cf.
• DISFIGUREMENT
  1. Act of disfiguring, or state of being disfigured; deformity. Milton. 2. That which disfigures; a defacement; a blot. Uncommon expressions . . . are a disfigurement rather than any embellishment of discourse. Hume.