Fig, n. Figure; dress; array. [Colloq.]

Were they all in full fig, the females with feathers on their

heads, the males with chapeaux bras?

Prof. Wilson.

||Fi`ga`ro" (?), n. [From the name of the barber in Beaumarchais'

||"Barber of Seville."] An adroit and unscrupulous intriguer.

Fig"a*ry (?), n. [Corrupted fr. vagary.] A frolic; a vagary; a whim.

[Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Fig"eat`er (?), n. (Zoˆl.) (a) A large beetle (Allorhina nitida) which

in the Southern United States destroys figs. The elytra are velvety

green with pale borders. (b) A bird. See Figpecker.

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