> as lemmas

1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 52 But yet it [a statue] was as in figure Most lich to mannes creature.

1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 71 A man that is in a derke kaue may not se his propre figure.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ezek. x. 22 The figure of their faces was, euen as I had sene them.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §221 The Figure of a Bell partaketh of the Pyramis.

1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xx. 537 Their Faces are of a flat oval Figure.

1698 J. Keill Exam. Theory Earth (1734) 289 The Theorist..had deduced its [the Earth's] true Figure from its true causes.

1705 G. Cheyne Philos. Princ. Nat. Relig. i. 57 By this Gravitation, Bodies on this Globe will press towards its Center, tho' not exactly thither neither, by reason of the oblate spheroidical Figure of the Earth.

1756 T. Nugent Grand Tour I. 164 The figure of the city is an oblong square.

1830 H. Kater & D. Lardner Treat. Mechanics i. 5 Bodies having very different volumes may have the same figure.

1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) xix. 318 In addition to this change of size..the figure of the ship suffers a change.

1931 Bull. Nat. Res. Counc. lxxviii. vii. 113 Figure of the Earth.—The defining elements of the mathematical surface which approximates the geoidal surface. The figure of the earth has been proved to be approximately an oblate spheroid.