Mediterranean tree widely cultivated for its edible fruit
"The old fig tree in our garden is heavy with ripe, sweet purple fruits ready to be picked."
a Libyan terrorist group organized in 1995 and aligned with al-Qaeda; seeks to radicalize the Libyan government; attempted to assassinate Qaddafi
"The intelligence report warned that the fig network was planning another covert operation to destabilize the regime."
fleshy sweet pear-shaped yellowish or purple multiple fruit eaten fresh or preserved or dried
"I bought a bag of figs to make jam for my toast tomorrow morning."
A fruit-bearing tree or shrub of the genus Ficus that is native mainly to the tropics.
"The chef sliced a fresh piece of fig off the root to use as an aromatic base for the soup, even though I had assumed it referred only to the sweet fruit hanging from trees."
Abbreviation of figure. (diagram or illustration)
The piece of ginger root used in figging.
In plain English: A fig is a small, sweet fruit that grows on trees in warm climates and has a soft, wrinkled skin with seeds inside.
"She carefully scraped away the outer skin with a fig to reveal the fresh ginger inside."
Usage: A fig is a small, sweet fruit with soft flesh and tiny seeds, distinct from the ginger root tool known as a figger. Use this word to describe the edible produce of the fig tree or dried versions found in baking.
To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion.
"The veterinarian had to carefully remove the dried fig that was lodged in the horse's rectum after the previous owner attempted an unapproved home remedy."
To move suddenly or quickly; rove about.
To dress; to get oneself up a certain way.
To insert a ginger root into the anus, vagina or urethra of (a horse): to perform figging upon; to feague, to feak.
In plain English: To fig something means to work it out or solve a problem.
"The figs were soft enough to be squeezed into juice."
Usage: The word "fig" does not have an everyday meaning as a verb in standard modern English; its primary contemporary usage is strictly as a noun referring to the sweet fruit or the tree that produces it. The definition you provided regarding inserting a ginger root into a horse is archaic veterinary jargon and is rarely used outside of historical texts or specific agricultural contexts today.
The 95th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
"After finishing his morning prayers, he opened his copy of the Quran to read Sura al-Fig before starting work."
The word "fig" entered English from Old French and earlier Latin, where it originally referred to the fruit-bearing tree. While its ultimate origins may trace back to a pre-Indo-European language possibly related to Phoenician for "ripe fig," the term traveled directly into Middle English as fige without changing its core meaning.