meaning of fig
1. 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.
3. A small piece of tobacco.
4. The value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; -- used in scorn or contempt.
5. To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion. See Fico.
6. To put into the head of, as something useless o/ contemptible.
7. Figure; dress; array.
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