FIGMENT Fig"ment, n. Etym: [L. figmentum, fr. fingere to form, shape, invent, feign. See Feign.]
Defn: 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.
FIGPECKER
Fig"peck`er, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The European garden warbler (Sylvia, or Currica, hortensis); — called also beccafico and greater pettychaps.
FIG-SHELL
Fig"-shell`, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A marine univalve shell of the genus Pyrula, or Ficula, resembling a fig in form.
FIGULATE; FIGULATED Fig"u*late, Fig"u*la`ted, a. Etym: [L. figulatus, p.p. of figulare to shape, fr. figulus potter, fr. fingere to shape.]
Defn: Made of potter's clay; molded; shaped. [R.] Johnson.
FIGULINE Fig"u*line ( or ), n. Etym: [F., fr. L. figulina pottery, fr. figulus. See Figulate.]
Defn: A piece of pottery ornamented with representations of natural
objects.
Whose figulines and rustic wares Scarce find him bread from day to
day. Longfellow.