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"Section F, G and H"

See Fico.
[Obs.]


When Pistol lies, do this, and fig me like

The bragging Spaniard.
Shak.


2. To put into the head of, as something
useless o&?; contemptible.
[Obs.] L'Estrange.


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. (Zoöl.)
(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.


Fig"ent (?), a. Fidgety;
restless.


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