Definition of fig

• 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.
• n. - The fruit of a fig tree, which is of round or oblong shape, and of various colors.
• n. - A small piece of tobacco.
• n. - The value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; -- used in scorn or contempt.
• n. - To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion. See Fico.
• n. - To put into the head of, as something useless o/ contemptible.
• n. - Figure; dress; array.