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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
If love, alas! be pain I bear,
No thought can figure, and no tongue declare.Prior.
2. To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.
The vaulty top of heaven Figured quite o'er with
burning meteors. --Shak.
3. To indicate by numerals; also to compute.
As through a crystal glass the figured hours are
seen. --Dryden.
4. To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.
Whose white vestments figure innocence. --Shak.
5. To prefigure; to foreshow.
In this the heaven figures some event. --Shak.
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.
{To figure out}, to solve; to compute or find the result of
{To figure up}, to add to reckon; to compute the amount of
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Figured \Fig"ured\, a.
1. Adorned with figures; marked with figures; as figured
muslin.
2. Not literal; figurative. [Obs.] --Locke.
3. (Mus.)
a Free and florid; as a figured descant. See
{Figurate}, 3.
b Indicated or noted by figures.
{Figured bass}. See {Continued bass}, under {Continued}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
figured
adj : of e.g. fabric design; "my dress is richly figured"- Amy
Lowell
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