2. Occupied in war; being the scene of a battle; as, a fighting field.
Pope.
A fighting chance, one dependent upon the issue of a struggle.
[Colloq.] -- Fighting crab (Zoˆl.), the fiddler crab. -- Fighting fish
(Zoˆl.), a remarkably pugnacious East Indian fish (Betta pugnax),
reared by the Siamese for spectacular fish fights.
Fight"ing*ly, adv. Pugnaciously.
Fight"wite` (?), n. [Fight + wite.] (O.Eng. Law) A mulct or fine
imposed on a person for making a fight or quarrel to the disturbance of
the peace.
Fig"ment (?), n. [L. figmentum, fr. fingere to form, shape, invent,
feign. See Feign.] 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.
Fig"peck`er (?), n. (Zoˆl.) The European garden warbler (Sylvia, or
Currica, hortensis); -- called also beccafico and greater pettychaps.
Fig"-shell` (?), n. (Zoˆl.) A marine univalve shell of the genus
Pyrula, or Ficula, resembling a fig in form.
{ Fig"u*late (?), Fig"u*la`ted (?) }, a. [L. figulatus, p. p. of
figulare to shape, fr. figulus potter, fr. fingere to shape.] Made of
potter's clay; molded; shaped. [R.] Johnson.
Fig"u*line (? or ?), n. [F., fr. L. figulina pottery, fr. figulus. See
Figulate.] A piece of pottery ornamented with representations of
natural objects.
Whose figulines and rustic wares Scarce find him bread from day to
day.
Longfellow.
Fig`ur*a*bil"i*ty (?), n. [Cf. F. figurabilitÈ.] The quality of being
figurable. Johnson.
Fig`ur*a*ble (?), a. [L. figurare to form, shape, fr. figura figure:
cf. F. figurable. See Figure.] Capable of being brought to a fixed form
or shape.
Lead is figurable, but water is not.
Johnson.
Fig"ur*al (?), a. [From Figure.] 1. Represented by figure or
delineation; consisting of figures; as, figural ornaments. Sir T.
Browne.