Fig
[fɪg] or [fɪɡ]
Definition
(noun.) fleshy sweet pear-shaped yellowish or purple multiple fruit eaten fresh or preserved or dried.
(noun.) Mediterranean tree widely cultivated for its edible fruit.
Typed by Laverne--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) The fruit of a fig tree, which is of round or oblong shape, and of various colors.
(n.) A small piece of tobacco.
(n.) The value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; -- used in scorn or contempt.
(n.) To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion. See Fico.
(n.) To put into the head of, as something useless o/ contemptible.
(n.) Figure; dress; array.
Edited by Elsie
Definition
n. (coll.) figure: dress.—v.t. to dress get up.—n. Fig′gery dressy ornament.
n. the fig-tree (Ficus) or its fruit growing in warm climates: a thing of little consequence.—v.t. (Shak.) to insult by a contemptuous motion of the fingers.—ns. Fig′-leaf the leaf of the fig-tree: an imitation of such a leaf for veiling the private parts of a statue or picture: any scanty clothing (from Gen. iii. 7): a makeshift; Fig′-tree the tree which produces figs.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
Figs, signifies a malarious condition of the system, if you are eating them, but usually favorable to health and profit if you see them growing. For a young woman to see figs growing, signifies that she will soon wed a wealthy and prominent man.
Typist: Susan
Unserious Contents or Definition
Nothing. Note, 'I don't care a fig,' etc.
Typist: Remington
Examples
- As shown in the original designs, Fig. 116, she is a double ender, whose sides were to be 5 feet thick. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Attach a closely wound coil to a sensitive galvanometer (Fig. 237); naturally there is no deflection of the galvanometer needle, because there is no current in the wire. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- It was also used in October, 1899, on board the Grande Duchesse to report the international yacht race between the Columbia and the Shamrock at Sandy Hook, as seen in Fig. 13. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The explanation of this well-known fact is found in a further study of the elastic balls (Fig. 170). Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- When light passes from air into water, or from any transparent substance into another of different density, its direction is changed, and it emerges along an entirely new path (Fig. 64). Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Voltmeters (Fig. 236), or instruments for measuring voltage, are like ammeters except that a wire of very high resistance is in circuit with the movable coil. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The simplest form of electric magnet is shown in Fig. 2. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- A recent improvement in the handling of iron from the blast furnace is shown in Fig. 255. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The diagram, Fig. 12,[1] illustrates the operation. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The operator in Fig. 6 is shown assembling switch plugs and is in the act of driving home a screw which holds in place the fiber bar over which the cord bends. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This machine, which was intended primarily for the use of the blind, is illustrated in Figs. 137 and 138. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Figs's left made terrific play during all the rest of the combat. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Give it him with the left, Figs my boy. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The electromotograph is shown diagrammatically in Figs. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The process is illustrated in Figs. 252, 253 and 254. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Afterwards a number of maidens, with vine-leaf-decorated amphoras of wine, baskets of figs, and bunches of grapes. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Houses on a level with the main supply pipes (Figs. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- In Figs. 265 and 266 are shown illustrations from the Sixteenth Century, Fig. 265 representing a muzzle loader, and Fig. 266 a breech-loader. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Cuff was licking me for breaking a bottle of milk, and Figs wouldn't stand it. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Four old Michigan Central cars with rotten sills collapsed in the ditch and went all to pieces, distributing figs, raisins, dates, and candies all over the track and the vicinity. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Typist: Winfred