Dictionary entry

Figured

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Fig″ured (?), a. 1. Adorned with figures; marked with figures; as, figured muslin.

2. Not literal; figurative. Locke.

3. (Mus.) (a) Free and florid; as, a figured descant. See Figurate, 3. (b) Indicated or noted by figures.

Figured bass. See Continued bass, under Continued.