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figured | griff |

As a verb figured

is (figure).

As an adjective figured

is (lb) having a pattern considered attractive appearing on a section.

As a noun griff is

(india) griffin, (white) newcomer or griff can be (obsolete) grasp; reach or griff can be (colloquial|slang) marijuana.

figured

English

Verb

(head)
  • (figure)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (lb) Having a pattern considered attractive appearing on a section.
  • :
  • Adorned with a figure or figures.
  • *
  • *:It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
  • *2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p.446:
  • *:Some of these mosaics have been carefully altered to replaced figured by non-figured designs.

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    griff

    English

    Etymology 1

    Shortened from earlier (griffin).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (India) griffin, (white) newcomer

    • Etymology 2

    Compare (grip), (gripe).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) grasp; reach
  • * Holland
    • A vein of gold ore within one spade's griff .
  • (weaving) An arrangement of parallel bars for lifting the hooked wires which raise the warp threads in a loom for weaving figured goods.
    • (Knight)

    Etymology 3

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l)

    Noun

    (-)
  • (colloquial, slang) marijuana.
    • Derived terms
    * (l) * (l) ----