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parts than the towns on the coaft. Numerous and valua¬ 
ble plantations of trees are formed in different parts of 
the county, thofe towards the coaft have been much in¬ 
jured by the fpray of the fea ; while thofe'in the interior 
parts flourilh exceedingly. Cupar is the county town. 
FIFFA'RO.y. [Italian.] A fmall pipe, or flagelet, 
nfed by the Germans, together with a drum, in the army. 
It is tiled in this country by thofe who go about with wild 
beads or bears for fhew. 
FIFTEE'N, adj. [pyptyne, Sax.] Five and ten.—I 
have dreamed and flept fome fifteen years and more. 
Shdkefpearc. 
FIFTEE'NTH, adj. [ppceo^Sa, Sax.] The ordinal 
of fifteen ; the fifth after the tenth. Containing one part 
in fifteen.—London fends but four burgeffes to parlia¬ 
ment, although it bears th t fifteenth part of the charge of 
the whole nation in all public taxes and levies. Graunt. 
FIFTEE'NTHS, f. in law, a tribute or impofition of 
money, anciently laid upon cities, boroughs, &c. through 
the whole realm ; fo called, becaufe it amounted to a fif¬ 
teenth part of that which each city or town was valued 
at, or a fifteenth of every man’s perfonal eftate according to 
a reafonable valuation. And every town knew what was 
a fifteenth part, which was always the fame ; whereas a 
fubfidy raifed on every particular man’s lands or goods, 
was adjudged uncertain; and in that regard the fifteenth 
feems to have been a rate formerly laid upon every town ; 
according to the land, or circuit belonging to it. Camd. 
Brit. 171. There are certain rates mentioned in Domefday, 
for levying this tribute yearly ; but fince, though the rate 
be certain, it is not to be levied but by parliament. By 
31 Edw. III. c. 13, a fifteenth was granted, for pardon, 
&c. The 7 Edw. VI. c. 4, granted a fubfidy and two fif¬ 
teenths by the temporalty, See. And in the 1, 5, Sec. 
Eliz. and r, 3, and 18, Jac. I. fifteenths and tenths were 
granted for maintaining the wars. See 1 Com. 309. 
FIFTH, adj. fppra, Sax.] The ordinal of five ; the 
next to the fourth : 
With fmiling afpeft you ferenely move, 
In your fifth orb, and rule the realm of love. Dryden. 
All the ordinals are taken elliptically for the part which 
they exprefs ; a fifth, a fifth part; a third, a third part.— 
The public Iliall have loft four fifths of its annual income 
for ever. Swift. 
FIFTH,yi in mufic, one of the harmonical intervals or 
concords; called by the ancients diapente. The fifth is 
the third in order of the concords, and the ratio of the 
chords that produce it, is that of 3 to 2. It is called 
fifth, becaufe it contains five terms, or founds, between 
its extremes, and four degrees ; fo that in the natural 
fcale of mufic it comes in the fifth place, or order, from 
the fundamental. The imperfedt or defedlive fifth, by 
the ancients called femidiapente, is lefs than the fifth by a 
mean femitone. See Music. 
FIFTH'LY, adv. In the fifth place.— Fifthly, living 
creatures have a more exadt figure than plants. Bacon. 
FIF'TIETH, adj. [pipceogoSa, Sax.] The ordinal 
of fifty.—If this medium be rarer within the fun’s" body 
than at its furface, and rarer there than at the hundredth 
part of an inch from its body, and rarer there than at the 
fiftieth part of an inch from its body, and rarer there than 
at the orb of Saturn, I fee no reafon why the increafe of 
denfity fliould ftop any where. Newton. 
FIF'TY, adj. [ppug, Sax.] Five tens.—Judas or¬ 
dained captains over thoufands, hundreds, fifties, and tens. 
1 Mac. iii. 55. 
FIG, /. [ficus, Lat. figo. Span, figue, Fr.] The tree 
that bears figs.—See Ficus. 
Full on its crown a fig' s green branches rife, 
And ftioot a leafy foreft to the Ikies. / Pope. 
Or lead me through the maze, 
Embowering endlefs of the Indian fig. Tkomfon, 
Vol.VII. No. 433. 
FIG 3Gl 
The fruit of the fig-tree.— -Figs are great fubduers of acri¬ 
mony. Arbuthnot. 
FIG (Indian). See Cactus, vol.iii. 579. 
FIG (Pharaoh’s). See Ficus and Musa. 
FIG-LEAF, f. Leaf of the fig-tree.—They fewed fig- 
leaves together. Gen. iii. 7. 
FIG-MARIGOLD. See Mesembryanthf.mum. 
FIG-TREE, f. The tree that bears figs.—Although 
the fig-tree fliall not bl'oHorn, neither fliall fruit be in the 
vines. Ilabakkuh. —See Ficus, p. 350. 
FIG-TREE BAY, a bay on the north-eaft coaft of 
the illand of Jamaica. Lat. 18. 18. N. Ion. 76. 19. W. 
Greenwich. 
FIG-TREE BAY, a bay on the weft coaft of the illand 
of St. Chriftopher’s, in the Weft Indies, near Sandy Point. 
FIG-WORT. See Scrophui.aria. 
To FIG, v. a. To infult with contemptuous motions 
of the fingers.—See Fico. 
When Piftol lies, do this, and fig me like 
The bragging Spaniard. Shakefpeare. 
To put fomething ufeiefs into one’s head. Low cant.~~= 
Away to the fovv (lie goes, and figs her in the crown with 
another ftory. VFJlrange. 
FIGARUO'LO, an ifland near the coaft of Venetian 
Iftria, in the Adriatic. Lat. 45. 18. N. Ion. 31. 33. E, 
Ferro. 
FPGEAC, a town of France, and principal place of a 
diftrict, in the department of the Lot, on the Selle, con¬ 
taining about 3300 inhabitants : fixteen leagues north-eaft 
of Montauban, and nine eaft of Cahors. Lat. 44. 37. N. 
Ion. 59. 43. E. Ferro. 
FI'GEN, a river of Norway, which runs into the North 
Sea, ten miles fouth of Stavenger. 
Fl'GENT, adj. [figo, Lat.] Retentive.—What kind 
of figent memory have you ? Eajlward Floe. 
FI'GER, or Fisju, a rich and extenfive province of 
Japan. 
FI'GHIG, a town of Africa, fituated on the fouth fide 
of the Atlas, in the country of Biledulgerid. The women 
manufacture cloth of wool of exquifite finenefs, much va¬ 
lued in Barbary, and fold at a high price. The inhabi¬ 
tants carry on a great trade with the inhabitants of Mo¬ 
rocco and Fez, and with the negroes: 240 miles eaft- 
fouth-eaft of Mequinez. Lat. 32. 20. N. Ion. 1. 5. W. 
Greenwich. 
To FIGHT, v. n. prefer, fought ; part. paff. fought’, 
[peohtan, Sax.] To contend in battle; to war; to make 
war; to battle; to contend inarms. It is ufed both of 
armies and fingle combatants.—The common queftion is, 
if we muft now furrender Spain, what have we been fight¬ 
ing for all this while > The anfwer is ready : we have 
been fighting for the ruin of the public intereft, and the 
advancement of a private. Swift. 
Fierce fiery warriors fight upon the clouds 
In ranks and fquadrons, and right form of war. Shakefip. 
To combat; to duel; to contend in fingle fight.—One 
(hall undertake to fight againft another. 2 Efdr. xiii. 
The poor wren. 
The moft diminutive of birds, will fight, 
The young ones in her neft, againft the owl. Shakefpeare. 
To adt as a foldier in any cafe : 
Richard, that robb’d the lion of his heart, 
And fought the holy wars in Paleftine, 
By this brave duke came eafly to his grave. Shakefpeare 
It has with before the perfon oppofed ; fometimes agaivfi. 
—Ye fight with the Chaldeans. fcr. —The ftars in their 
courfes fought againjl Sifera. fudges. —To contend.—The 
hot and cold, the dry and humid, fight. Sandys. 
To FIGHT, v. a. To war againft; to combat againft; 
Himfelf alone an equal match he boafts, 
To fight the Phrygian and th’ Aufonian hofts. Dryden. 
4 Z FIGHT, 
