Filing (n.) A fragment or particle rubbed off by the act of filing; as, iron filings.
Filipendulous (a.) Suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; -- said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootlets.
Fill (n.) One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.
Filled (imp. & p. p.) of Fill
Filling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fill
Fill (a.) To make full; to supply with as much as can be held or contained; to put or pour into, till no more can be received; to occupy the whole capacity of.
Fill (a.) To furnish an abudant supply to; to furnish with as mush as is desired or desirable; to occupy the whole of; to swarm in or overrun.
Fill (a.) To fill or supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.
Fill (a.) To possess and perform the duties of; to officiate in, as an incumbent; to occupy; to hold; as, a king fills a throne; the president fills the office of chief magistrate; the speaker of the House fills the chair.
Fill (a.) To supply with an incumbent; as, to fill an office or a vacancy.
Fill (a.) To press and dilate, as a sail; as, the wind filled the sails.
Fill (a.) To trim (a yard) so that the wind shall blow on the after side of the sails.
Fill (a.) To make an embankment in, or raise the level of (a low place), with earth or gravel.
Fill (v. i.) To become full; to have the whole capacity occupied; to have an abundant supply; to be satiated; as, corn fills well in a warm season; the sail fills with the wind.
Fill (v. i.) To fill a cup or glass for drinking.
Fill (v. t.) A full supply, as much as supplies want; as much as gives complete satisfaction.
Filler (n.) One who, or that which, fills; something used for filling.
Filler (n.) A thill horse.
Fillet (n.) A little band, especially one intended to encircle the hair of the head.
Fillet (n.) A piece of lean meat without bone; sometimes, a long strip rolled together and tied.
Fillet (n.) A thin strip or ribbon; esp.: (a) A strip of metal from which coins are punched. (b) A strip of card clothing. (c) A thin projecting band or strip.
Fillet (n.) A concave filling in of a reentrant angle where two surfaces meet, forming a rounded corner.
Fillet (n.) A narrow flat member; especially, a flat molding separating other moldings; a reglet; also, the space between two flutings in a shaft. See Illust. of Base, and Column.
Fillet (n.) An ordinary equaling in breadth one fourth of the chief, to the lowest portion of which it corresponds in position.
Fillet (n.) The thread of a screw.
Fillet (n.) A border of broad or narrow lines of color or gilt.
Fillet (n.) The raised molding about the muzzle of a gun.
Fillet (n.) Any scantling smaller than a batten.
Fillet (n.) A fascia; a band of fibers; applied esp. to certain bands of white matter in the brain.
Fillet (n.) The loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests.
Filleted (imp. & p. p.) of Fillet
Filleting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fillet
Fillet (v. t.) To bind, furnish, or adorn with a fillet.
Filleting (n.) The protecting of a joint, as between roof and parapet wall, with mortar, or cement, where flashing is employed in better work.
Filleting (n.) The material of which fillets are made; also, fillets, collectively.
Fillibeg (n.) A kilt. See Filibeg.
Fillibuster (n.) See Filibuster.
Filling (n.) That which is used to fill a cavity or any empty space, or to supply a deficiency; as, filling for a cavity in a tooth, a depression in a roadbed, the space between exterior and interior walls of masonry, the pores of open-grained wood, the space between the outer and inner planks of a vessel, etc.
Filling (n.) The woof in woven fabrics.
Filling (n.) Prepared wort added to ale to cleanse it.
Filliped (imp. & p. p.) of Fillip
Filliping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fillip
Fillip (v. t.) To strike with the nail of the finger, first placed against the ball of the thumb, and forced from that position with a sudden spring; to snap with the finger.
Fillip (v. t.) To snap; to project quickly.
Fillip (n.) A jerk of the finger forced suddenly from the thumb; a smart blow.
Fillip (n.) Something serving to rouse or excite.
Fillipeen (n.) See Philopena.
Fillister (n.) The rabbet on the outer edge of a sash bar to hold the glass and the putty.
Fillister (n.) A plane for making a rabbet.
Fillies (pl. ) of Filly
Filly (n.) A female foal or colt; a young mare. Cf. Colt, Foal.
Filly (n.) A lively, spirited young girl.
Film (n.) A thin skin; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity; hence, any thin, slight covering.
Film (n.) A slender thread, as that of a cobweb.
Film (v. t.) To cover with a thin skin or pellicle.
Filminess (n.) State of being filmy.
Filmy (a.) Composed of film or films.
Filoplumaceous (a.) Having the structure of a filoplume.
Filoplume (n.) A hairlike feather; a father with a slender scape and without a web in most or all of its length.
Filose (a.) Terminating in a threadlike process.
Filter (n.) Any porous substance, as cloth, paper, sand, or charcoal, through which water or other liquid may passed to cleanse it from the solid or impure matter held in suspension; a chamber or device containing such substance; a strainer; also, a similar device for purifying air.
Filtered (imp. & p. p.) of Filter
Filtering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Filter
Filter (n.) To purify or defecate, as water or other liquid, by causing it to pass through a filter.
Filter (v. i.) To pass through a filter; to percolate.
Filter (n.) Same as Philter.
Filth (n.) Foul matter; anything that soils or defiles; dirt; nastiness.
Filth (n.) Anything that sullies or defiles the moral character; corruption; pollution.
Filthily (adv.) In a filthy manner; foully.
Filthiness (n.) The state of being filthy.
Filthiness (n.) That which is filthy, or makes filthy; foulness; nastiness; corruption; pollution; impurity.
Filthy (superl.) Defiled with filth, whether material or moral; nasty; dirty; polluted; foul; impure; obscene.
Filtrated (imp. & p. p.) of Filtrate
Filtrating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Filtrate
Filtrate (v. t.) To filter; to defecate; as liquid, by straining or percolation.
Filtrate (n.) That which has been filtered; the liquid which has passed through the filter in the process of filtration.
Filtration (n.) The act or process of filtering; the mechanical separation of a liquid from the undissolved particles floating in it.
Finble () Alt. of Fimble hemp
Fimble hemp () Light summer hemp, that bears no seed.
Fimbriae (pl. ) of Fimbria
Fimbria (n.) A fringe, or fringed border.
Fimbria (n.) A band of white matter bordering the hippocampus in the brain.
Fimbriate (a.) Having the edge or extremity bordered by filiform processes thicker than hairs; fringed; as, the fimbriate petals of the pink; the fimbriate end of the Fallopian tube.
Fimbriated (imp. & p. p.) of Fimbriate
Fimbriating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fimbriate
Fimbriate (v. t.) To hem; to fringe.
Fimbriated (a.) Having a fringed border; fimbriate.
Fimbriated (a.) Having a very narrow border of another tincture; -- said esp. of an ordinary or subordinary.
Fimbricate (a.) Fringed; jagged; fimbriate.
Fimbricate (a.) fringed, on one side only, by long, straight hairs, as the antennae of certain insects.
Finned (imp. & p. p.) of Fin
Finning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fin
Fin (v. t.) To carve or cut up, as a chub.
Fin (n.) End; conclusion; object.
Fin (n.) An organ of a fish, consisting of a membrane supported by rays, or little bony or cartilaginous ossicles, and serving to balance and propel it in the water.
Fin (n.) A membranous, finlike, swimming organ, as in pteropod and heteropod mollusks.
Fin (n.) A finlike organ or attachment; a part of an object or product which protrudes like a fin
Fin (n.) The hand.
Fin (n.) A blade of whalebone.
Fin (n.) A mark or ridge left on a casting at the junction of the parts of a mold.