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fig
[fig]
n. , 价值西, 许,

vt. 扮, 使跑快

[医]

  1. You don't really care a fig about status.
    位真乎。
  2. A fig for this!
  3. The richly fig out young woman stand out at the party.
    那位饰富丽女郎目。




fig
figged, figging
[ noun ]
  1. a diagram or picture illustrating textual material

  2. <noun.communication>
    the area covered can be seen from Figure 2
  3. Mediterranean tree widely cultivated for its edible fruit

  4. <noun.plant>
  5. a Libyan terrorist group organized in 1995 and aligned with al-Qaeda; seeks to radicalize the Libyan government; attempted to assassinate Qaddafi

  6. <noun.group>
  7. fleshy sweet pear-shaped yellowish or purple multiple fruit eaten fresh or preserved or dried

  8. <noun.food>




Fig \Fig\ (f[i^]g), 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.


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.


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.