fig

noun10

1. •
   The fruit of the fig tree, pear-shaped and containing many small seeds.
2. •
   A fruit-bearing tree or shrub of the genus Ficus that is native mainly to the tropics.

   • And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. — 1611
3. •
   Abbreviation of figure (“diagram or illustration”).
4. •
   The value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; a whit.

   • I'll pledge you all; and a fig for Peter! — 1591
5. •
   A fico, a contemptuous gesture.
6. •
   (informal, old-fashioned) A person's figure; dress or appearance.
7. •
   A Lady Finger banana, also known as the "fig banana", (cultivar of Musa acuminata)
8. •
   A small piece of tobacco.

   • “You may flog, and welcome, master,” said he, “if you'll give me a fig o' tibbacky.” — 1874
9. •
   (Newfoundland, old-fashioned) A raisin (dried grape).

   • figgy duff - boiled pudding with raisins
10. •
    The piece of ginger root used in figging.

verb7

1. •
   (informal, old-fashioned) To dress; to get oneself up a certain way.
2. •
   To move suddenly or quickly; rove about.
3. •
   (old-fashioned) To develop, or cause (a soap) to develop, white streaks or granulations.

   • In the cold soaps, the water soluble color is added in liquid form after saponification has started. In figged soaps, the color is crutched in after saponification is completed. — 1938
4. •
   Abbreviation of figure (“to calculate; to think; to come to understand”).
5. •
   (rare) To insert a ginger root into the anus, vagina or urethra of (a horse): to perform figging upon; to feague, to feak.

   • Ginger, a showy, fast horse — as if he had been figged with ginger under his tail; a red-haired man. — 1874
6. •
   (no longer used) To insult with a fico, a contemptuous gesture.

   • When Pistol lies, do this, and fig me like / The bragging Spaniard. — 1596
7. •
   (no longer used) To put into the head of, as something useless or contemptible.

adjective1

1. •
   Abbreviation of figurative.

noun1

1. •
   Abbreviation of figure.