Top Fig Quotes

He stands on the stone table and selects a large fig, bites into the skin, then opens it with his fingers. He thinks of a woman's sex, ancient and eternal, no young girl would have such gritty sweetne...

The fig tree grows its flowers strangely inside out, concealed within the soft interior of the fruit. Erszébet imagines the fig's hidden fairy weight of seeds, grown in sweetness that is also a darkne...

Fig Definition

(n.) A small fruit tree (Ficus Carica) with large leaves, known from the remotest antiquity. It was probably native from Syria westward to the Canary Islands.

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

(n.) A small piece of tobacco.

(n.) The value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; -- used in scorn or contempt.

(n.) To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion. See Fico.

(n.) To put into the head of, as something useless o/ contemptible.

(n.) Figure; dress; array.