[f. FIG sb.1 + TREE.] A tree of the genus Ficus, esp. the Ficus carica.
a. 1340. Hampole, Psalter, civ. 31. He smate þaire vynȝerdis & þaire fige trese.
c. 1430. Lydg., Chorle & Byrde (Roxb.), 1.
| He myght not forsaken his fattenesse | |
| Ne the fyge tree his amerous swetenesse. |
1667. Milton, P. L., IX. 1101.
| The Figtree, not that kind for Fruit renown’d, | |
| But such as at this day to Indians known | |
| In Malabar or Decan spreds her Armes. |
1762. H. Walpole, Vertue’s Anecd. Paint. (1765), 1. ii. 28. They dropped into the yolk of an egg the milk that flows from the leaf of a young fig-tree.
1862. H. Kendall, Poems, 119.
| And from a deep dull sea of sleep faint fancies come to me, | |
| And I forget how lone we sit beneath this old Figtree. |
attrib. 1552. Huloet, Figge tree staffe or stalcke. Ibid., Figge tree droue, or groue.
1889. Pall Mall G., 26 Dec., 3/2. The seventh and ninth columns from the fig-tree corner [of the Ducal Palace].
