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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. (of e.g. fabric design) adorned with patterns;
- Example: "my dress is richly figured"- Amy Lowell


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

patterned \patterned\ adj. Having describable patterns, especially patterns of colors. [Narrower terms: banded, blotched, blotchy, splotched, brindled, brindle, brinded, tabby, burled, checked, checkered, dappled, mottled, dotted, flecked, specked, speckled, stippled, figured, floral, flowered, laced, marbled, marbleized, moire, watered, pinstriped, pinstripe(prenominal), slashed, streaked, spotted, sprigged, streaked, streaky, striped, stripy, tessellated, veined, venose] plain, solid [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Figure \Fig"ure\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Figured; p. pr. & vb. n. Figuring.] [F. figurer, L. figurare, fr. figura. See Figure, n.] 1. To represent by a figure, as to form or mold; to make an image of, either palpable or ideal; also, to fashion into a determinate form; to shape. [1913 Webster] If love, alas! be pain I bear, [1913 Webster] No thought can figure, and no tongue declare.Prior. [1913 Webster] 2. To embellish with design; to adorn with figures. [1913 Webster] The vaulty top of heaven Figured quite o'er with burning meteors. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. To indicate by numerals; also, to compute. [1913 Webster] As through a crystal glass the figured hours are seen. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 4. To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize. [1913 Webster] Whose white vestments figure innocence. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 5. To prefigure; to foreshow. [1913 Webster] In this the heaven figures some event. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 6. (Mus.) (a) To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords. (b) To embellish. [1913 Webster] To figure out, to solve; to compute or find the result of. To figure up, to add; to reckon; to compute the amount of. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Figured \Fig"ured\, a. 1. Adorned with figures; marked with figures; as, figured muslin. [1913 Webster] 2. Not literal; figurative. [Obs.] --Locke. [1913 Webster] 3. (Mus.) (a) Free and florid; as, a figured descant. See Figurate, 3. (b) Indicated or noted by figures. [1913 Webster] Figured bass. See Continued bass, under Continued. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

figured adj 1: (of e.g. fabric design) adorned with patterns; "my dress is richly figured"- Amy Lowell