Definition of fig

What does the word fig mean?

• part of speech: verb transitive

  French out or up (horse), make lively; f. out (person), dress up, bedizen. [German]

• part of speech: noun

  (Broad-leaved tree, usu. f.-tree, bearing) soft pear shaped many seeded fruit eaten fresh (green ff.) or dried (esp. Turkey or Smyrna ff.; pulled ff., superior hand-picked Turkey ff.); under one\'s vine& f.-tree, safe at home; anything valueless (don\'t care a f. for; also a f. for-!, as excl.); f.-leaf, device for concealing what is indecorous (Gen. iii. 7); f.-wort, brown-flowered herb. [French]

• part of speech: noun

  Dress, equipment, (in full f.); condition, form, (in good f.).