FIGGING
—is the sublime art of insinuating a profusion of false spirit, and artificial fire, into a horse, when offering him for sale. This is done by privately introducing a piece of ginger (previously bitten) within the sphincter of the anus, where, by its painful stimulus, it so irritates the animal, that he seems, by the cocking of his tail, the instantaneous erection of his ears, and the deceptive spirit he displays in action, to be a horse of very superior appearance and value to what he turns out when the stimulus of this deception has subsided.