fig

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Ficus, especially F. carica, native to the Mediterranean region and widely cultivated for its edible multiple fruit.
• noun The sweet, hollow, pear-shaped, multiple fruit of this plant, having many tiny seedlike fruits.
• noun Any of several plants bearing similar fruit.
• noun The fruit of such a plant.
• noun A trivial or contemptible amount.
• noun Dress; array.
• noun Physical condition; shape.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To move suddenly or quickly; rove about.
• To dress or deck: as, to fig one out.
• To trick or hocus, as a horse, so as to make the animal appear lively or spirited, as by putting a piece of ginger into the anus.
• A common abbreviation of figure.
• noun Dress; equipment: used chiefly in the phrase in full fig, in full or official dress.
• noun Hence Condition; state of preparation or readiness: as, the horse is in good fig for the race.
• noun In soap-making, same as figging.
• noun An abbreviation of figurative or of figuratively.
• noun The common name for species of the genus Ficus, and for their fruit.
• noun A name given to various plants having a fruit somewhat resembling the fig.
• noun A florideous alga, Callithamnion floridulum.
• noun The fig-tree.
• noun A raisin.
• noun In farriery, an excrescence on the frog of a horse's foot following a bruise.
• noun A contemptuous gesture, pretended to be of Spanish origin, which consisted in thrusting out the thumb between the first and second fingers. Also called fig of Spain and fico.
• noun As a colloquial standard of value or consideration, the merest trifle; the least bit: as, your opinion is not worth a fig; I don't care a fig for it.
• To insult with ficos, or contemptuous motions of the fingers. See fig, n., 7, and fico.
• To put into the head of, as something worthless or useless.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb obsolete To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion. See fico.
• transitive verb obsolete To put into the head of, as something useless o� contemptible.
• noun (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.
• noun The fruit of a fig tree, which is of round or oblong shape, and of various colors.
• noun U.S. A small piece of tobacco.
• noun The value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; -- used in scorn or contempt.
• noun See Conchineal fig.
• noun a preparation of fine oatmeal for feeding caged birds.
• noun one of a class of rural deities or monsters supposed to live on figs.
• noun (Zoöl.) a small fly said to be injurious to figs.
• noun 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.
• noun (Bot.) the name of several plants of the genus Mesembryanthemum, some of which are prized for the brilliancy and beauty of their flowers.
• noun (Bot.) any tree of the genus Ficus, but especially F. Carica which produces the fig of commerce.
• noun colloq. Figure; dress; array.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun Abbreviation of figure (diagram or illustration).
• noun A fruit-bearing tree or shrub of the genus Ficus that is native mainly to the tropics.
• noun The fruit of the fig tree, pear-shaped and containing many small seeds.
• verb intransitive To move suddenly or quickly; rove about.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun fleshy sweet pear-shaped yellowish or purple multiple fruit eaten fresh or preserved or dried
• noun a diagram or picture illustrating textual material
• noun Mediterranean tree widely cultivated for its edible fruit
• noun a Libyan terrorist group organized in 1995 and aligned with al-Qaeda; seeks to radicalize the Libyan government; attempted to assassinate Qaddafi