Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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   {Academy figure}, {Canceled figures}, {Lay figure}, etc. See
      under {Academy}, {Cancel}, {Lay}, etc.

   {Figure caster}, or {Figure flinger}, an astrologer. ``This
      figure caster.'' --Milton.

   {Figure flinging}, the practice of astrology.

   {Figure-of-eight knot}, a knot shaped like the figure 8. See
      Illust. under {Knot}.

   {Figure painting}, a picture of the human figure, or the act
      or art of depicting the human figure.

   {Figure stone} (Min.), agalmatolite.

   {Figure weaving}, the art or process of weaving figured
      fabrics.

   {To cut a figure}, to make a display. [Colloq.] --Sir W.
      Scott.

Academy \A*cad"e*my\, n.; pl. {Academies}. [F. acad['e]mie, L.
   academia. Cf. {Academe}.]
   1. A garden or grove near Athens (so named from the hero
      Academus), where Plato and his followers held their
      philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy
      of which Plato was head.

   2. An institution for the study of higher learning; a college
      or a university. Popularly, a school, or seminary of
      learning, holding a rank between a college and a common
      school.

   3. A place of training; a school. ``Academies of
      fanaticism.'' --Hume.

   4. A society of learned men united for the advancement of the
      arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art
      or science; as, the French Academy; the American Academy
      of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and
      philology.

   5. A school or place of training in which some special art is
      taught; as, the military academy at West Point; a riding
      academy; the Academy of Music.

   {Academy figure} (Paint.), a drawing usually half life-size,
      in crayon or pencil, after a nude model.