Figured

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
figured
    adj 1: (of e.g. fabric design) adorned with patterns; "my dress
           is richly figured"- Amy Lowell
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
patterned \patterned\ adj.
   Having describable patterns, especially patterns of colors.
   [Narrower terms: {banded}, {blotched, blotchy, splotched},
   {brindled, brindle, brinded, tabby}, {burled}, {checked,
   checkered}, {dappled, mottled}, {dotted, flecked, specked,
   speckled, stippled}, {figured}, {floral, flowered}, {laced},
   {marbled, marbleized}, {moire, watered}, {pinstriped,
   pinstripe(prenominal)}, {slashed, streaked}, {spotted},
   {sprigged}, {streaked, streaky}, {striped, stripy},
   {tessellated}, {veined, venose}] {plain, solid}
   [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Figure \Fig"ure\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Figured}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Figuring}.] [F. figurer, L. figurare, fr. figura. See
   {Figure}, n.]
   1. 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.
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            If love, alas! be pain I bear,
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            No thought can figure, and no tongue declare.Prior.
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   2. To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.
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            The vaulty top of heaven
            Figured quite o'er with burning meteors. --Shak.
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   3. To indicate by numerals; also, to compute.
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            As through a crystal glass the figured hours are
            seen.                                 --Dryden.
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   4. To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.
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            Whose white vestments figure innocence. --Shak.
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   5. To prefigure; to foreshow.
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            In this the heaven figures some event. --Shak.
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   6. (Mus.)
      (a) To write over or under the bass, as figures or other
          characters, in order to indicate the accompanying
          chords.
      (b) To embellish.
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   {To figure out}, to solve; to compute or find the result of.
      

   {To figure up}, to add; to reckon; to compute the amount of.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Figured \Fig"ured\, a.
   1. Adorned with figures; marked with figures; as, figured
      muslin.
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   2. Not literal; figurative. [Obs.] --Locke.
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   3. (Mus.)
      (a) Free and florid; as, a figured descant. See
          {Figurate}, 3.
      (b) Indicated or noted by figures.
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   {Figured bass}. See {Continued bass}, under {Continued}.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
72 Moby Thesaurus words for "figured":
      adorned, allusive, arranged, beaded, bedecked, bedizened,
      befrilled, bejeweled, beribboned, bespangled, blueprinted,
      calculated, charted, colored, contrived, decked out, decorated,
      designed, devised, embellished, embroidered, fancy, feathered,
      festooned, figurative, florid, flowered, flowery, garnished,
      in the works, jeweled, lush, luxuriant, mannered, metaphorical,
      methodized, on the agenda, on the anvil, on the calendar,
      on the carpet, on the docket, on the tapis, organized, ornamented,
      ornate, overcharged, overloaded, planned, plotted, plumed,
      projected, purple, rationalized, referential, scheduled,
      schematized, set, shaped, spangled, spangly, strategetic,
      strategic, studded, sur le tapis, systematized, tactical,
      tricked out, trimmed, trolatitious, tropological, worked out,
      wreathed

    

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