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noun. Any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Ficus, especially F. carica, native to the Mediterranean region and widely cultivated for its edible multiple fruit.

noun. The sweet, hollow, pear-shaped, multiple fruit of this plant, having many tiny seedlike fruits.

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noun. Any of several plants bearing similar fruit.

noun. The fruit of such a plant.

noun. A trivial or contemptible amount.

noun. Dress; array.

noun. Physical condition; shape.

To move suddenly or quickly; rove about.

To dress or deck: as, to fig one out.

To trick or hocus, as a horse, so as to make the animal appear lively or spirited, as by putting a piece of ginger into the anus.

A common abbreviation of figure.

noun. Dress; equipment: used chiefly in the phrase in full fig, in full or official dress.

noun. Hence Condition; state of preparation or readiness: as, the horse is in good fig for the race.

noun. In soap-making, same as figging.

noun. An abbreviation of figurative or of figuratively.

noun. The common name for species of the genus Ficus, and for their fruit.

noun. A name given to various plants having a fruit somewhat resembling the fig.

noun. A florideous alga, Callithamnion floridulum.

noun. The fig-tree.

noun. A raisin.

noun. In farriery, an excrescence on the frog of a horse's foot following a bruise.

noun. A contemptuous gesture, pretended to be of Spanish origin, which consisted in thrusting out the thumb between the first and second fingers. Also called fig of Spain and fico.

noun. As a colloquial standard of value or consideration, the merest trifle; the least bit: as, your opinion is not worth a fig; I don't care a fig for it.

To insult with ficos, or contemptuous motions of the fingers. See fig, n., 7, and fico.

To put into the head of, as something worthless or useless.

transitive verb. To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion. See fico.

transitive verb. To put into the head of, as something useless o� contemptible.

noun. A small fruit tree (Ficus Carica) with large leaves, known from the remotest antiquity. It was probably native from Syria westward to the Canary Islands.

noun. The fruit of a fig tree, which is of round or oblong shape, and of various colors.

noun. A small piece of tobacco.

noun. The value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; -- used in scorn or contempt.

noun. See Conchineal fig.

noun. a preparation of fine oatmeal for feeding caged birds.

noun. one of a class of rural deities or monsters supposed to live on figs.

noun. a small fly said to be injurious to figs.

noun. the leaf tree; hence, in allusion to the first clothing of Adam and Eve (Genesis iii.7), a covering for a thing that ought to be concealed; esp., an inadequate covering; a symbol for affected modesty.

noun. the name of several plants of the genus Mesembryanthemum, some of which are prized for the brilliancy and beauty of their flowers.

noun. any tree of the genus Ficus, but especially F. Carica which produces the fig of commerce.

noun. Figure; dress; array.

noun. Abbreviation of figure (diagram or illustration).

noun. A fruit-bearing tree or shrub of the genus Ficus that is native mainly to the tropics.

noun. The fruit of the fig tree, pear-shaped and containing many small seeds.

verb. To move suddenly or quickly; rove about.

noun. fleshy sweet pear-shaped yellowish or purple multiple fruit eaten fresh or preserved or dried

noun. a diagram or picture illustrating textual material

noun. Mediterranean tree widely cultivated for its edible fruit

noun. a Libyan terrorist group organized in 1995 and aligned with al-Qaeda; seeks to radicalize the Libyan government; attempted to assassinate Qaddafi

"Consequently, all _goats_ were driven from the banks of this river; but one day, Theŏclos observed that the branches of a fig tree bent into the stream, and it immediately flashed into his mind that the Messenian word for _fig tree_ and _goat_ was the same."

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