Definitions for the word "fig" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
The fruit of a fig tree, which is of round or oblong shape, and of various colors.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
A small piece of tobacco.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
The value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; -- used in scorn or contempt.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion. See Fico.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
To put into the head of, as something useless o/ contemptible.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
Figure; dress; array.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. n.
1 soft pulpy fruit with many seeds. 2 (in full fig-tree) tree bearing figs. not care (or give) a fig not care at all. [latin ficus]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
9. n.
1 dress or equipment (in full fig). 2 condition or form (in good fig). [obsolete feague: related to *fake]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
10. slang
“in full FIG,” _i.e._, full-dress costume, “extensively got up.”
Possibly an allusion to the dress assumed by our first parents after
they were naked and not ashamed, or else an abbreviation of figure, in
the references to plates in books of fashions.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
11. slang
“to FIG a horse,” to play improper tricks with one in order to
make him lively. The FIG is a piece of wet ginger placed under a horse’s
tail for the purpose of making him appear lively, and enhance his price.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
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