Read full poem →Spread open as I dropped them half-read through
Like dove wings on a figure on a tomb
To see, if in a dream they brought of you,
Dictionary Entry
To account for or rely on a particular fact or notion; to calculate (something) using a set of facts.
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“I'll figure on nine people for lunch tomorrow.”
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Poetry examples for “figure on”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →It goes, like murky bird or buccaneer
That shapes its lawless figure on the main,
And each new impulse tends to make outflee