"figure up" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: figures up [present, singular, third-person], figuring up [participle, present], figured up [participle, past], figured up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} figure up (third-person singular simple present figures up, present participle figuring up, simple past and past participle figured up)
  1. To add up or calculate. Synonyms: figure out, tally up, reckon out
    Sense id: en-figure_up-en-verb-hwPBxqbW Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (up)

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          "ref": "1893, Theodore Brainard Terry, Our Farming",
          "text": "Third, clover increases the fertility of the soil by shading it almost constantly during the season of its growth. In figuring up the greater amount of fertility that clover could store up, I did not put this in.",
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