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.

2. (n.) The fruit of a fig tree, which is of round or oblong shape, and of various colors.

3. (n.) A small piece of tobacco.

4. (n.) The value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; -- used in scorn or contempt.

5. (n.) To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion. See Fico.

6. (n.) To put into the head of, as something useless o/ contemptible.

7. (n.) Figure; dress; array.

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