资料来源 : 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.

Cancel \Can"cel\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Canceled} or {Cancelled};
   p. pr. & vb. n. {Canceling} or {Cancelling}.] [L. cancellare
   to make like a lattice, to strike or cross out (cf. Fr.
   canceller, OF. canceler) fr. cancelli lattice, crossbars,
   dim. of cancer lattice; cf. Gr. ? latticed gate. Cf.
   {Chancel}.]
   1. To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with
      latticework. [Obs.]

            A little obscure place canceled in with iron work is
            the pillar or stump at which . . . our Savior was
            scourged.                             --Evelyn.

   2. To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to
      exclude. [Obs.] ``Canceled from heaven.'' --Milton.

   3. To cross and deface, as the lines of a writing, or as a
      word or figure; to mark out by a cross line; to blot out
      or obliterate.

            A deed may be avoided by delivering it up to be
            cancelled; that is, to have lines drawn over it in
            the form of latticework or cancelli; though the
            phrase is now used figuratively for any manner of
            obliterating or defacing it.          --Blackstone.

   4. To annul or destroy; to revoke or recall.

            The indentures were canceled.         --Thackeray.

            He was unwilling to cancel the interest created
            through former secret services, by being refractory
            on this occasion.                     --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.

   5. (Print.) To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in
      type.

   {Canceled figures} (Print), figures cast with a line across
      the face., as for use in arithmetics.

   Syn: To blot out; obliterate; deface; erase; efface; expunge;
        annul; abolish; revoke; abrogate; repeal; destroy; do
        away; set aside. See {Abolish}.