Word Meanings - FIGURED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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.
Related words: (words related to FIGURED)
- UNDERDOER
One who underdoes; a shirk. - UNDERBRED
Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith. - NOTOTHERIUM
An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia. - UNDERSECRETARY
A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury. - UNDERPLOT
1. A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it. Dryden. 2. A clandestine scheme; a trick. Addison. - NOTUM
The back. - UNDERNICENESS
A want of niceness; indelicacy; impropriety. - CONTINUABLE
Capable of being continued - UNDERSOIL
The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil. - UNDERDOLVEN
p. p. of Underdelve. - CONTINUANT
Continuing; prolonged; sustained; as, a continuant sound. -- n. - MARKETABLENESS
Quality of being marketable. - LITERALNESS
The quality or state of being literal; literal import. - UNDERNIME
1. To receive; to perceive. He the savor undernom Which that the roses and the lilies cast. Chaucer. 2. To reprove; to reprehend. Piers Plowman. - UNDERPROP
To prop from beneath; to put a prop under; to support; to uphold. Underprop the head that bears the crown. Fenton. - UNDERCREST
To support as a crest; to bear. Shak. - UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
Wildcat insurance. - UNDERSAY
To say by way of derogation or contradiction. Spenser. - UNDERTAPSTER
Assistant to a tapster. - FIGURE
1. To make a figure; to be distinguished or conspicious; as, the envoy figured at court. Sociable, hospitable, eloquent, admired, figuring away brilliantly. M. Arnold. 2. To calculate; to contrive; to scheme; as, he is figuring to secure - MONOTESSARON
A single narrative framed from the statements of the four evangelists; a gospel harmony. - HYPNOTIC
1. Having the quality of producing sleep; tending to produce sleep; soporific. 2. Of or pertaining to hypnotism; in a state of hypnotism; liable to hypnotism; as, a hypnotic condition. - SEAMARK
Any elevated object on land which serves as a guide to mariners; a beacon; a landmark visible from the sea, as a hill, a tree, a steeple, or the like. Shak. - TRADE-MARK
A peculiar distinguishing mark or device affixed by a manufacturer or a merchant to his goods, the exclusive right of using which is recognized by law. - PHONOTYPY
A method of phonetic printing of the English language, as devised by Mr. Pitman, in which nearly all the ordinary letters and many new forms are employed in order to indicate each elementary sound by a separate character. - RECONTINUANCE
The act or state of recontinuing. - PLUNDERER
One who plunders or pillages. - COINDICATION
One of several signs or sumptoms indicating the same fact; as, a coindication of disease.