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

A marine univalve shell of the genus Pyrula, or Ficula, resembling a fig in form.

An adroi

A frolic; a vagary; a whim. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

A large beetle (Allorhina nitida) which in the Southern United States destroys figs. The elytra are velvety green with pale borders.

Fidgety; restless. [Obs.] Such a little figent thing. Beau. & Fl.

A juggler's trick; conjuring. [Obs.] The devil is the author of wicked figgum. B. Jonson.

y, either by blows or weapons; to contend in arms; -- followed by with or against. You do fight against your country's foes. Shak. To fight with thee no man of arms will deign. Milton.

One who fights; a combatant; a warrior. Shak.

Qualified for war; fit for battle. An host of fighting men. 2 Chron. xxvi. 11.

Pugnaciously.

A mulct or fine imposed on a person for making a fight or quarrel to the disturbance of the peace.

An invention; a fiction; something feigned or imagined. Social figments, feints, and formalism. Mrs. Browning. It carried rather an appearance of figment and invention . . . than of truth and reality. Woodward.

The European garden warbler (Sylvia, or Currica, hortensis); -- called also beccafico and greater pettychaps.

Made of potter's clay; molded; shaped. [R.] Johnson.

A piece of pottery ornamented with representations of natural objects. Whose figulines and rustic wares Scarce find him bread from day to day. Longfellow.

The quality of being figurable. Johnson.

Capable of being brought to a fixed form or shape. Lead is figurable, but water is not. Johnson.

Represented by figure or delineation; consisting of figures; as, figural ornaments. Sir T. Browne.

One who dances at the opera, not singly, but in groups or figures; an accessory character on the stage, who figures in its scenes, but has nothing to say; hence, one who figures in any scene, without taking a prominent part.