figures
“pictures created by imagination or apprehension”
(CRAIK)
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“to scrape the figures out of your husband's brains,”
THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, iv. 2.
193
;
“He apprehends a world of figures here,”
1 HENRY IV., i. 3. 209
;
“Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies,”
JULIUS CAESAR, ii. 1. 231.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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