figwort

Botany: 1. Singular: (1) A common book-name for Scrophularia aquat ica and S. nodosa , from their being used in the disease called Ficus. [SCROPHULARIA.] (2) Ranunculus ficaria . ( Britten & Holland .) 2. Pl .: The name given by Lindley to the order Scrophulariacese. He calls them also Linariads. fig (2), 8. [A contract. of figure (q.v.).] Dre , array, outfit, equipment; generally in the phrase, in full fig =in full dre . "Lol is not one of the Queen's pyebalds in full fig as great and as foolish a monster?"- Thackeray : Book of Snobs , ch. xxiv.