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RELATED WORDS : authority figure easy lay father figure figure figure eight figure loom figure of eight figure of speech figure out figure skate figure skating lay lay aside lay away lay before lay by lay claim lay down lay down the law lay eyes on lay hands on lay in lay into lay it on thick lay low lay off lay on lay on the line lay out lay over lay reader lay shaft lay the foundation lay to lay to rest lay up lay waste lay waste to lay witness mother figure plane figure public figure significant figure solid figure stick figure terminal figure three-dimensional figure two-dimensional figure wax figure

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Noun lay figure has 1 sense

• lay figure(n = noun.artifact) Array - dummy in the form of an artist's jointed model of the human body; Array
is a kind of dummy

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lay figure

Charlie McCarthy, air brush, art paper, brush, bust, camera lucida, camera obscura, canvas, carving, chalk, charcoal, cipher, clay model, crayon, creature, doll, dolly, drawing paper, drawing pencil, drier, dud, dummy, easel, fantoccini, figure, figurehead, figurine, fixative, front, front man, gingerbread man, ground, hollow man, jackstraw, man of straw, manikin, mannequin, marionette, maulstick, medium, mock-up, model, monument, nebbish, nobody, nominal head, nonentity, nothing, nullity, paint, paintbrush, palette, palette knife, pastel, pencil, pigments, pilot model, portrait bust, puppet, pushover, scarecrow, scratchboard, sculpture, siccative, sketchbook, sketchpad, snowman, spatula, spray gun, statuary, statue, statuette, stooge, stump, thing of naught, trifle, varnish, wax figure, waxwork, wood carving, wood model, zero

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