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A collective term for all the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or for all except the favorites in the betting.

Figure; dress; array. [Colloq.] Were they all in full fig, the females with feathers on their heads, the males with chapeaux bras Prof. Wilson.

trength or disposition for fighting; pugnacity; as, he has a great deal of fight in him. [Colloq.]

, a fighting field. Pope. A fighting chance, one dependent upon the issue of a struggle. [Colloq.] -- Fighting crab (Zoöl.), the fiddler crab. -- Fighting fish (Zoöl.), a remarkably pugnacious East Indian fish (Betta pugnax), reared by the Siamese for spectacular fish fights.

ue, as expressed in numbers; price; as, the goods are estimated or sold at a low figure. [Colloq.] With nineteen thousand a year at the very lowest figure. Thackeray.

An orderly collection of papers, arranged in sequence or classified for preservation and reference; as, files of letters or of newspapers; this mail brings English files to the 15th instant.

The material of which fillets are made; also, fillets, collectively.

A lively, spirited young girl. [Colloq.] Addison.

d gravel. -- Filter gallery, an underground gallery or tunnel, alongside of a stream, to collect the water that filters through the intervening sand and gravel; -- called also infiltration gallery.

ife. To burn one's fingers. See under Burn. -- To have a finger in, to be concerned in. [Colloq.] -- To have at one's fingers' ends, to be thoroughly familiar with. [Colloq.]

Finical; unduly particular. [Colloq.]

Precise in trifles; idly busy. [Colloq.] Smart.

Something that gives the finishing touch to, or settles, anything. [Colloq.]

juggler who pretends to eat fire. (b) A quarrelsome person who seeks affrays; a hotspur. [Colloq.] -- Fire engine, a portable forcing pump, usually on wheels, for throwing water to extinguish fire. -- Fire escape, a contrivance for facilitating escape from burning buildings. -- Fire gilding (Fine Arts), a mode of gil…

Extravagant, like some stories about catching fish; improbable; also, rank or foul. [Colloq.]

boxing, or to encounters with the fists; puglistic; as, fistic exploits; fistic heroes. [Colloq.]

imp. & p. p. of Fight. [Obs. or Colloq.]

most suitable; hence, to repair; as, to fix the clothes; to fix the furniture of a room. [Colloq. U.S.]

xed capital. See the Note under Capital, n., 4. -- Fixed fact, a well established fact. [Colloq.] -- Fixed light, one which emits constant beams; -- distinguished from a flashing, revolving, or intermittent light. -- Fixed oils (Chem.), non-volatile, oily substances, as stearine and olein, which leave a permanent gre…

Arrangements; embellishments; trimmings; accompaniments. [Colloq. U.S.]