figging

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We face an uncharted future, thanks to Madoff and Company's malevolent, unchecked, unbridled greed and avarice ...... and we even get to clean up the figging messes (gag).

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  1. In soap-making, white granulations of stearate of potash, produced by the addition of a certain amount of tallow to the oils of which soft soap is made: so called from its resemblance to the granular texture of a fig.

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  • We face an uncharted future, thanks to Madoff and Company's malevolent, unchecked, unbridled greed and avarice ...... and we even get to clean up the figging messes (gag). —  Latest Articles
  • From men to women and back again, via pegging, figging and fisting - —  PC Podcast with Pete Cogle
  • "Going figging, Nat," said my uncle, putting some more wood on the fire, not for the sake of the light -- for away across the sea the dawn was brightening fast, after the way of sunrise and sunset in tropic lands; and even as I looked there, far on high, was a faint fleck of orange light on a tiny cloud. —  Through Forest and Stream The Quest of the Quetzal
  • a mite to walk over a strip of lawn, without figging up in my best duds. —  Flaming June
  • The materials must be varied according to the season; during hot weather, more body with a less tendency to separate is given by the introduction of oils and fats richer in stearine; these materials also induce "figging". —  The Handbook of Soap Manufacture
 

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