Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FIG, n. [L. ficus; Sp. figo or higo; It. fico; Fr. figue; G. feige; D. vyg; Heb. פגי; Ch. פגה.]

1. The fruit of the fig-tree, which is of a round or oblong shape, and a dark purplish color, with a pulp of a sweet taste. But the varieties are numerous; some being blue, others red, and others of a dark brown color. Encyc.
2. The fig-tree. Pope.

FIG, v.t.

1. To insult with ficoes or contemptuous motions of the fingers. [Little used.] Shak.
2. To put something useless into one's head. [Not used.] L'Estrange.

FIG'AP-PLE, n.

A species of apple. Johnson.

FIG'A-RY, n.

A frolick.

FIG'A-RY, n. [for Vagary, is not English.]

FIG'GNAT, n.

An insect of the fly kind. Johnson.

FIGHT, n.

1. A battle; an engagement; a contest in arms; a struggle for victory, either between individuals, or between armies, ships or navies. A duel is called a single fight or combat.
2. Something to screen the combatants in ships. Up with your fights and your nettings prepare. Dryden.

FIGHT, v.i. [pret. and pp. fought, pronounced faut. Sax. feahtan, feohtan; G. fechten; D. vegten; Sw. fäckta; Dan. fegter; Ir. fichim.]

1. To strive or contend for victory, in battle or in single combat: to attempt to defeat, subdue or destroy an enemy, either by blows or weapons; to contend in arms. Come and be our captain, that we may fight with the children of Ammon. Judges xi. When two persons or parties contend in person, fight is usually followed by with. But when we speak of carrying on war, in any other form, we may say, to fight against. Saul took the kingdom over Israel, and fought against all his enemies on every side. 1 Sam. xiv. Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath. 2 Kings xii. It is treason for a man to join an enemy to fight against his country. Hence, To fight against, is to act in opposition; to oppose; to strive to conquer or resist. The stars in their courses fought against Sisera. Judges v.
2. To contend; to strive; to struggle to resist or check.
3. To act as a soldier. Shak.

FIGHT, v.t.

1. To carry on contention; to maintain a struggle for victory over enemies. I have fought a good fight. 2 Tim. iv.
2. To contend with in battle; to war against. They fought the enemy in two pitched battles. The captain fought the frigate seven glasses. [Elliptical; with being understood.]

FIGHT-ER, n.

One that fights; a combatant; a warrior.

FIGHT-ING, n.

Contention; strife; quarrel. Without were fightings, within were fears. 2 Cor. vii.

FIGHT-ING, ppr.

1. Contending in battle; striving for victory or conquest.
2. adj. Qualified for war; fit for battle. A host of fighting men. 2 Chron. xxvi.
3. Occupied in war; being the scene of war; as, fighting field. Pope.

FIG'LEAF, n.

The leaf of a fig-tree; also, thin covering, in allusion to the first covering of Adam and Eve.

FIG-MAR'I-GOLD, n.

The Mesembryanthemum, a succulent plant, resembling houseleek. Fam. of Plants. Miller.

FIG'MENT, n. [L. figmentum, from fingo, to feign.]

An invention; a fiction; something feigned or imagined. These assertions are the figments of idle brains. Bp. Lloyd.

FIG'PECK-ER, n. [L. ficedula.]

A bird.

FIG'-TREE, n.

A tree of the genus Ficus, growing in warm climates. The receptacle is common, turbinated, carnous and connivent, inclosing the florets. The male calyx is tripartite; no corol; three stamens. The female calyx is a uniquepartite; no corol; one pistil; one seed. Encyc. To dwell under our vine and fig-tree, is to live in peace and safety. 1 Kings iv.

FIG'U-LATE, a. [L. figulo, to fashion, from fingo, or rather figo, which appears to be the root of fingo.]

Made of potters clay; molded; shaped. [Little used.]

FIG-U-RA-BIL'I-TY, n.

The quality of being capable of a certain fixed or stable form.

FIG'U-RA-BLE, a. [from figure.]

Capable of being brought to a certain fixed form or shape. Thus lead is figurable, but water is not. Bacon.

FIG'U-RAL, a.

Represented by figure or delineation; as, figural resemblances. Brown. Figural numbers, in geometry, such numbers as do or may represent some geometrical figure, in relation to which they are always considered, and are either lineary, superficial or solid. Harris.

FIG'U-RATE, a. [L. figuratus.]

1. Of a certain determinate form. Plants are all figurate and determinate, which inanimate bodies are not Bacon.
2. Resembling any thing of a determinate form; as, figurate stones, stones or fossils resembling shells.
3. Figurative. [Not used.] Figurate counterpoint, in music, that wherein there is a mixture of discord with concords. Harris. Figurate descant, that in which discords are concerned, though not so much as concords. It may be called the ornament or rhetorical part of music, containing all the varieties or points, figures, syncopes, and diversities of measure. Harris.

FIG'U-RA-TED, a.

Having a determinate form. Potter.

FIG'UR-ATE-LY, adv.

In a figurate manner.

FIG-U-RA'TION, n.

1. The act of giving figure or determinate form. Bacon.
2. Determination to a certain form. Bacon.
3. Mixture of concords and discords in music. Gregory.