fig Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun a diagram or picture illustrating textual material
figure.
- the area covered can be seen from Figure 2
noun Mediterranean tree widely cultivated for its edible fruit
common fig tree; common fig; Ficus carica.
noun a Libyan terrorist group organized in 1995 and aligned with al-Qaeda; seeks to radicalize the Libyan government; attempted to assassinate Qaddafi
Libyan Islamic Fighting Group; Libyan Fighting Group; Libyan Islamic Group; Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyyah al-Muqatilah bi-Libya.
noun fleshy sweet pear-shaped yellowish or purple multiple fruit eaten fresh or preserved or dried

F. figue the fruit of the tree, Pr. figa, fr. L. ficus fig tree, fig. Cf. Fico.

(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.
The fruit of a fig tree, which is of round or oblong shape, and of various colors. ✍ 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.
A small piece of tobacco. U.S.
The value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; -- used in scorn or contempt. "A fig for Peter." Shak.

See Fico, Fig, n.

To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion. See Fico. Obs.
When Pistol lies, do this, and fig me like The bragging Spaniard. Shak.
To put into the head of, as something useless o contemptible. Obs. L'Estrange.

Figure; dress; array. Colloq.
Were they all in full fig, the females with feathers on their heads, the males with chapeaux bras? Prof. Wilson.