FIGURES OF SPEECH
\fˈɪɡəz ɒv spˈiːt͡ʃ], \fˈɪɡəz ɒv spˈiːtʃ], \f_ˈɪ_ɡ_ə_z ɒ_v s_p_ˈiː_tʃ]\
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This subject belongs more particularly to grammar and rhetoric, but the law has its figures also. Sometimes fictions come in aid of language, when found insufficient by the law; language, in its turn, by means of tropes and figures, sometimeslends to fictions a veil behind which they are hidden; sometimes the same denominations are preserved to things which have ceased to be the same, and which have been changed; at other times they lend to things denominations which supposed them to have been modified.
By John Bouvier
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Snake's-head
- Guinea-hen flower; -- so called in England because its spotted petals resemble the scales of a snake's head.
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