fig

IPA: fˈɪg

The fruit of the fig tree, pear-shaped and containing many small seeds.
A fruit-bearing tree or shrub of the genus Ficus that is native mainly to the tropics.
The value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; a whit.
The Lady Finger banana, also known as the "fig banana". (Cultivar of Musa acuminata.)
(Newfoundland, dated) A raisin (dried grape).
A small piece of tobacco.
(colloquial, dated) A person's figure; dress or appearance.
The piece of ginger root used in figging.
The 95th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
Abbreviation of figure (“diagram or illustration”). [A drawing or diagram conveying information.]

(obsolete) To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion.
(obsolete) To put into the head of, as something useless or contemptible.
(soap-making, dated) To develop, or cause (a soap) to develop, white streaks or granulations.
(intransitive) To move suddenly or quickly; rove about.
(colloquial, dated, transitive) To dress; to get oneself up a certain way.
(transitive, rare) To insert a ginger root into the anus, vagina or urethra of (a horse): to perform figging upon; to feague, to feak.

Examples of "fig" in Sentences

A ripe fig is slightly soft and gives under light pressure.
Apparently the mistletoe fig is a slow grower, but I have time.
The mulberry produces a whitish paper, while that of the fig is dark.
She would bring them herself, and have a slice of galette or a fig from the big basketful with them.
Consider low-fat vanilla yogurt with berries, whole-grain fig cookies and fat-free chocolate pudding.
Looking at the bigger connections for frequency and duration in fig 14a, b: ie Germany/Turkey, Russia/Azerbaijan, Morocco/France.
Paul Barr conversed with my father, laying down the law in his most superb fashion regarding the immense fortune in store for any one who would start what he called a fig farm in this country.
A recent thread over on Hit and Run drove home the point that a lot of people think complaints about DRM and policies like the broadcast flag come down to thin fig leaves for a desire to pirate music.
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.