figure away

English

Verb

figure away (third-person singular simple present figures away, present participle figuring away, simple past and past participle figured away)

(obsolete) To make an impression; to show off. [18th–19th c.]
- 1771, Frances Burney, Journals:
  Dr. King […] came in, & figured away to his own satisfaction before Mr. Garrick.
- 1788, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary: A Fiction‎:
  [S]he still expected to recover, and figure away in the gay world.

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