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A fruit-bearing tree or shrub of the genus Ficus that is native mainly to the tropics.

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The fruit of the fig tree, pear-shaped and containing many small seeds.

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A small piece of tobacco.

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The value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; a whit.

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A raisin (dried grape)

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To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion.

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To put into the head of, as something useless or contemptible.

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(soap-making) To develop, or cause (a soap) to develop, white streaks or granulations.

The French artists still retain FIG ' 4.

Around the villages are extensive cultivated fields and orchards, containing fig, pomegranate and orange trees.

A transporter of the first class is shown in fig.

The arrangement at a station worked by relay on the " single-current " system is shown in fig.

This is illustrated by the four sketch maps shown in fig.

Various arrangements are adopted; the one indicated in fig.

Of SchOner we know that he produced four globes, three printed from segments (1515, 1523, 1 533), and p SCF12MER.S FIG.

The limbs are five-toed, with the third and fourth toes of the front pair armed with enormous digging claws; FIG.

The male next casts his cuticle, and by means of his spine bores FIG.

These methods are used in exceptional cases, but present the obvious difficulty of giving FIG.

Both these medusae have sense-organs of a peculiar type, which are said to contain an endodermal axis like the sense-organs of Trachylinae, but the fact has recently been called in question for FIG.

This horizontal movement of the lower end of the back leg allows the whole arrangement to assume the position shown in fig.

Another type of fixed crane is the " Fairbairn " crane, shown in fig.

Here the jib, superstructure and post are all united in one piece, which revolves in a foundation well, being supported at the bottom by a toe-step and near the ground level by horizontal FIG.

With portable cranes means must be provided to ensure the requisite stability against overturning; this is done by weighting the tail of the revolving part with heavy weights, and in steam cranes the FIG.

In connexion with the stability of portable cranes, it may be mentioned that accidents more often arise from FIG.

The hydraulic lifting cylinders are placed inside the revolving steel mast or post, and the cabin for the driver FIG.

One variation is illustrated in fig.

In the other class of transporter the load is not usually moved; FIG.

Between a shoulder, a, in the iron bolt and a shoulder in the porcelain cup, c, is placed an indiarubber ring, which forms a yielding washer and enables the cup to be screwed firmly to the bolt, while preventing FIG.

In practice the resistances r, r' are 9 Earth FIG.

The tanks are nearly cylindrical in form and have a truncated cone fixed in the centre, as shown at C, fig.

A simple, but important, addition to enable the reading from the instrument to be effected by sound is shown in fig.

The arrangement on the " open-circuit " system for single-current working is shown in fig.

The connexions for single-current working on the " closed-circuit " system are shown in fig.

The local 1_ E I battery B 1 then sends a current through the in FIG.

The Siemens polarized relay, shown in fig.

This form of relay is largely used, but in Great Britain it has been entirely .flisplaced by the form shown in fig.

If the positive is called the signalling current, the line will be charged positively each time a signal is sent; but as soon as the signal is completed a negative charge is communicated FIG.

The arrangement is shown in fig.

R 1 and R2 are relays for receiving the FIG.

In practice the number of segments actually employed is much greater than that indicated on the figure, and the segments are arranged in a number of groups, as shown by fig.

To each group is connected a set of apparatus; hence during a complete revolution of the arms a pair of instruments (at station A and station B) will be in communication four times, and the intervals during which any particular set of instruments at the two stations are not in connexion with each other become much smaller than in the case of fig.

The punches are arranged as shown in fig.

The arrangement of the apparatus for working some of the most recent cables is shown in Fig.

In conjunction with the above receiver he employed a transmitter, which consisted of a large induction or spark coil S having its spark balls placed a few millimetres apart; one of these balls was connected to an earth FIG.

He inserts in the primary circuit of the alternating FIG.

A radiator of this last class can be constructed by connecting inductively or directly FIG.

The secondary circuit of this transformer is cut in the middle and has a condenser inserted in it, and its ends are connected to the sensitive metallic filings tube or coherer as shown in fig.

It was soon found that it could only be used to advantage in this way when the total resistance of the circuit, exclusive of the microphone, was small compared with the resistance of the microphone - that is, on very short lines worked with FIG.

The transmitter on long and high resistance lines worked better by joining, in the manner shown in fig.

A cord circuit, similar in many respects, including the method .y.^9 Jr '' of operation, but equipped with condensers and impedance coils, in place of the repeating coil, is shown in fig.

The colour also varies considerably, even in different pitchers of the same individual, FIG.

Then come the glandular surface (C), which is formed of smooth polished epidermis with numerous glands that secrete the fluid contents of the pitcher, and finally the detentive surface (D), of which the cells are produced into long and strong bristles which point A FIG.

In the curious polyp Myriothela the body of the polyp is differ FIG.

The sub-epithelial layer thus primarily constituted may be recruited by immigration from without of other FIG.

Hence it is necessary to distin guishbetween,first,the"zooids," FIG.

In this manner the food absorbed by one individual contributes to the welfare of the whole colony, and the coenosarc has the 6 C FIG.

Each bud produced FIG.

Hence, in a colony of gymnoblastic hydroids, the oldest polyp of each system, that is to say, of the main stem or of a branch, is the topmost polyp; II  ?a ` FIG.