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6 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Fig \Fig\, n. Figure; dress; array. [Colloq.] Were they all in full fig, the females with feathers on their heads, the males with chapeaux bras? --Prof. Wilson. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Fig \Fig\, n. [F. figue the fruit of the tree, Pr figa, fr L. ficus fig tree, fig. Cf {Fico}.] 1. (Bot.) 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. 2. The fruit of a fig tree, which is of round or oblong shape, and of various colors. Note: The fruit of a fig tree is really the hollow end of a stem, and bears numerous achenia inside the cavity. Many species have little, hard, inedible figs, and in only a few does the fruit become soft and pulpy. The fruit of the cultivated varieties is much prized in its fresh state, and also when dried or preserved. See {Caprification}. 3. A small piece of tobacco. [U.S.] 4. The value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; -- used in scorn or contempt. ``A fig for Peter.'' --Shak. {Cochineal fig}. See {Conchineal fig}. {Fig dust}, a preparation of fine oatmeal for feeding caged birds. {Fig faun}, one of a class of rural deities or monsters supposed to live on figs. ``Therefore shall dragons dwell there with the fig fauns.'' --Jer. i. 39. (Douay version). {Fig gnat} (Zo["o]l.), a small fly said to be injurious to figs. {Fig leaf}, 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. {Fig marigold} (Bot.), the name of several plants of the genus {Mesembryanthemum}, some of which are prized for the brilliancy and beauty of their flowers. {Fig tree} (Bot.), any tree of the genus {Ficus}, but especially {F. Carica} which produces the fig of commerce. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Fig \Fig\, v. t. [See {Fico}, {Fig}, n.] 1. To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion. See {Fico}. [Obs.] When Pistol lies, do this and fig me like The bragging Spaniard. --Shak. 2. To put into the head of as something useless o? contemptible. [Obs.] --L'Estrange. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: fig n 1: a diagram or picture illustrating textual material; "the area covered can be seen from Figure 2" [syn: {figure}] 2: Mediterranean tree widely cultivated for its edible fruit [syn: {common fig}, {common fig tree}, {Ficus carica}] 3: fleshy sweet pear-shaped yellowish or purple multiple fruit eaten fresh or preserved or dried From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Fig First mentioned in Gen. 3:7. The fig-tree is mentioned (Deut. 8:8) as one of the valuable products of Palestine. It was a sign of peace and prosperity (1 Kings 4:25; Micah 4:4; Zech. 3:10). Figs were used medicinally (2 Kings 20:7), and pressed together and formed into cakes" as articles of diet (1 Sam. 30:12; Jer. 24:2). Our Lord's cursing the fig-tree near Bethany (Mark 11:13) has occasioned much perplexity from the circumstance, as mentioned by the evangelist, that "the time of figs was not yet." The explanation of the words however, lies in the simple fact that the fruit of the fig-tree appears before the leaves, and hence that if the tree produced leaves it ought also to have had fruit. It ought to have had fruit if it had been true to its "pretensions," in showing its leaves at this particular season. "This tree, so to speak, vaunted itself to be in advance of all the other trees, challenged the passer-by that he should come and refresh himself with its fruit. Yet when the Lord accepted its challenge and drew near it proved to be but as the others without fruit as they for indeed, as the evangelist observes, the time of figs had not yet arrived. Its fault, if one may use the word lay in its pretensions, in its making a show to run before the rest when it did not so indeed" (Trench, Miracles). The fig-tree of Palestine (Ficus carica) produces two and sometimes three crops of figs in a year, (1) the bikkurah or "early-ripe fig" (Micah 7:1; Isa. 28:4; Hos. 9:10, R.V.), which is ripe about the end of June, dropping off as soon as it is ripe (Nah. 3:12); (2) the kermus, or "summer fig," then begins to be formed, and is ripe about August; and (3) the pag (plural "green figs," Cant. 2:13; Gr olynthos Rev. 6:13, "the untimely fig"), or "winter fig," which ripens in sheltered spots in spring. From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]: FIG Forth Interest Group (org., Forth)
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