Fill Fill intransitive verb 1. 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.

2. To fill a cup or glass for drinking.

Give me some wine; fill full.

Shak.

To back and fill . See under Back , intransitive verb -- To fill up , to grow or become quite full; as, the channel of the river fills up with sand.

Fill Fill noun [ Anglo-Saxon fyllo . See Fill , transitive verb ] A full supply, as much as supplies want; as much as gives complete satisfaction. "Ye shall eat your fill ." Lev. xxv. 19.

I'll bear thee hence, where I may weep my fill .

Shak.

Fill Fill noun That which fills; filling; specif., an embankment, as in railroad construction, to fill a hollow or ravine; also, the place which is to be filled.

Filled cheese Filled cheese An inferior kind of cheese made from skim milk with a fatty "filling," such as oleomargarine or lard, to replace the fat removed in the cream.

Filler Fill"er noun One who, or that which, fills; something used for filling.

'T is mere filler , to stop a vacancy in the hexameter.

Dryden.

They have six diggers to four fillers , so as to keep the fillers always at work.

Mortimer.

Filler Fill"er noun [ From 1st Fill .] A thill horse. [ Prov. Eng.]

Filler Fill"er noun 1. (Paint.) A composition, as of powdered silica and oil, used to fill the pores and grain of wood before applying paint, varnish, etc.

2. (Forestry) Any standing tree or standard higher than the surrounding coppice in the form of forest known as coppice under standards . Chiefly used in the pl .

Fillet Fil"let noun [ Middle English filet , felet , from Old French filet thread, fillet of meat, dim. of fil a thread, from Latin filum . See Fille a row.] 1. A little band, especially one intended to encircle the hair of the head.

A belt her waist, a fillet binds her hair.

Pope.

2. (Cooking) A piece of lean meat without bone; sometimes, a long strip rolled together and tied.

» A fillet of beef is the under side of the sirlom; also called tenderloin . A fillet of veal or mutton is the fleshy part of the thigh. A fillet of fish is a slice of flat fish without bone. " Fillet of a fenny snake." Shak.

3. 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.

4. (Machinery) A concave filling in of a reëntrant angle where two surfaces meet, forming a rounded corner.

5. (Architecture) 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 .

6. (Her.) An ordinary equaling in breadth one fourth of the chief, to the lowest portion of which it corresponds in position.

7. (Mech.) The thread of a screw.

8. A border of broad or narrow lines of color or gilt.

9. The raised molding about the muzzle of a gun.

10. Any scantling smaller than a batten.

11. (Anat.) A fascia; a band of fibers; applied esp. to certain bands of white matter in the brain.

12. (Man.) The loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests.

Arris fillet . See under Arris .

Fillet Fil"let transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Filleted ; present participle & verbal noun Filleting .] To bind, furnish, or adorn with a fillet.

Filleting Fil"let·ing noun 1. (Architecture) The protecting of a joint, as between roof and parapet wall, with mortar, or cement, where flashing is employed in better work.

2. The material of which fillets are made; also, fillets, collectively.

Fillibeg Fil"li·beg noun A kilt. See Filibeg .

Fillibuster Fil"li·bus`ter noun See Filibuster .

Filling Fill"ing noun 1. 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.

2. The woof in woven fabrics.

3. (Brewing) Prepared wort added to ale to cleanse it.

Back filling . (Architecture) See under Back , adjective

Fillip Fil"lip transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Filliped ; present participle & verbal noun Filliping .] [ For filp , flip . Confer Flippant .] 1. 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. "You filip me o' the head." Shak.

2. To snap; to project quickly.

The use of the elastic switch to fillip small missiles with.

Tylor.

Fillip Fil"lip noun 1. A jerk of the finger forced suddenly from the thumb; a smart blow.

2. Something serving to rouse or excite.

I take a glass of grog for a filip .

Dickens.

Fillipeen Fil"li·peen` noun See Philopena .

Fillister Fil"lis·ter noun 1. The rabbet on the outer edge of a sash bar to hold the glass and the putty. Knight.

2. A plane for making a rabbet.

Fillister screw had , a short cylindrical screw head, having a convex top.

Filly Fil"ly noun ; plural Fillies . [ Confer Icelandic fylia , fr . foli foal. See Foal .] 1. (Zoology) A female foal or colt; a young mare. Confer Colt , Foal .

Neighing in likeness of a filly foal.

Shak.

2. A lively, spirited young girl. [ Colloq.] Addison.

Film Film noun [ Anglo-Saxon film skin, from fell skin; akin to fylmen membrane, OFries. filmene skin. See Fell skin.] 1. A thin skin; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity; hence, any thin, slight covering.

He from thick films shall purge the visual ray.

Pope.

2. A slender thread, as that of a cobweb.

Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film .

Shak.

Film Film transitive verb To cover with a thin skin or pellicle.

It will but skin and film the ulcerous place.

Shak.

Film Film noun (Photog.) The layer, usually of gelatin or collodion, containing the sensitive salts of photographic plates; also, the flexible sheet of celluloid or the like on which this layer is sometimes mounted.

Celluloid film (Photog.) , a thin flexible sheet of celluloid, coated with a sensitized emulsion of gelatin, and used as a substitute for photographic plates. -- Cut film (Photog.) , a celluloid film cut into pieces suitable for use in a camera.

Filminess Film"i·ness noun State of being filmy.

Filmy Film"y adjective Composed of film or films.

Whose filmy cord should bind the struggling fly.

Dryden.

Filoplumaceous Fil`o·plu·ma"ceous adjective (Zoology) Having the structure of a filoplume.

Filoplume Fil"o·plume noun [ Latin filum a thread ... pluma a soft feather.] (Zoology) A hairlike feather; a father with a slender scape and without a web in most or all of its length.

Filose Fi"lose` adjective [ Latin filum a thread.] Terminating in a threadlike process.

Filoselle Fil`o·selle" noun [ French, floss silk.] A kind of silk thread less glossy than floss, and spun from coarser material. It is much used in embroidery instead of floss.

Fils Fils noun [ French, from Latin filius . See Filial .] Son; -- sometimes used after a French proper name to distinguish a son from his father, as, Alexandre Dumas, fils .

Filter Fil"ter noun [ French filtre , the same word as feutre felt, Late Latin filtrum , feltrum , felt, fulled wool, this being used for straining liquors. See Feuter .] 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.

Filter bed , a pond, the bottom of which is a filter composed of sand gravel. -- Filter gallery , an underground gallery or tunnel, alongside of a stream, to collect the water that filters through the intervening sand and gravel; -- called also infiltration gallery .

Filter Fil"ter transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Filtered ; present participle & verbal noun Filtering ] [ Confer French filter . See Filter , noun , and confer Filtrate .] To purify or defecate, as water or other liquid, by causing it to pass through a filter.

Filtering paper , or Filter paper , a porous unsized paper, for filtering.

Filter Fil"ter intransitive verb To pass through a filter; to percolate.

Filter Fil"ter noun Same as Philter .

Filth Filth noun [ Middle English filthe , fulðe , Anglo-Saxon f...lð , from fūl foul; akin to Old High German fūlida . See Foul , and confer File .] 1. Foul matter; anything that soils or defiles; dirt; nastiness.

2. Anything that sullies or defiles the moral character; corruption; pollution.

To purify the soul from the dross and filth of sensual delights.

Tillotson.

Filth disease (Medicine) , a disease supposed to be due to pollution of the soil or water.

Filthily Filth"i·ly adverb In a filthy manner; foully.

Filthiness Filth"i·ness noun 1. The state of being filthy.

Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit.

2 Cor. vii. 1.

2. That which is filthy, or makes filthy; foulness; nastiness; corruption; pollution; impurity.

Carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place.

2 Chron. xxix. 5.

Filthy Filth"y adjective [ Compar. Filthier ; superl. Filthiest .] Defiled with filth, whether material or moral; nasty; dirty; polluted; foul; impure; obscene. "In the filthy -mantled pool." Shak.

He which is filthy let him be filthy still.

Rev. xxii. 11.

Syn. -- Nasty; foul; dirty; squalid; unclean; sluttish; gross; vulgar; licentious. See Nasty .

Filtrate Fil"trate transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Filtrated ; present participle & verbal noun Filtrating . ] [ Confer Late Latin filtrare . See Filter .] To filter; to defecate; as liquid, by straining or percolation. Arbuthnot.

Filtrate Fil"trate noun That which has been filtered; the liquid which has passed through the filter in the process of filtration.

Filtration Fil·tra"tion noun [ Confer French filtration .] The act or process of filtering; the mechanical separation of a liquid from the undissolved particles floating in it.

Fimble Fim"ble noun , or Fim"ble hemp` (fĭm"b'l hĕmp`). [ Corrupted from female hemp .] Light summer hemp, that bears no seed.

Fimbria Fim"bri·a noun ; plural Fimbriæ . [ Latin , fringe. See Fringle .] (Anat.) (a) plural A fringe, or fringed border. (b) A band of white matter bordering the hippocampus in the brain. -- Fim"bri*al adjective

Fimbriate Fim·bri·ate adjective [ Latin fimbriatus fibrous, fringed, from fimbria fiber, fringe. See Fringe .] 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.

Fimbriate Fim"bri·ate transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Fimbriated ; present participle & verbal noun Fimbriating .] To hem; to fringe. Fuller.

Fimbriated Fim"bri·a`ted adjective 1. Having a fringed border; fimbriate.

2. (Her.) Having a very narrow border of another tincture; -- said esp. of an ordinary or subordinary.

Fimbricate Fim"bri·cate adjective 1. Fringed; jagged; fimbriate.

2. (Zoology) fringed, on one side only, by long, straight hairs, as the antennæ of certain insects.

Fin Fin transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Finned ; present participle & verbal noun Finning .] [ Confer Fin of a fish.] To carve or cut up, as a chub.

Fin Fin noun [ See Fine , noun ] End; conclusion; object. [ Obsolete] "She knew eke the fin of his intent." Chaucer.

Fin Fin noun [ Middle English finne , fin , Anglo-Saxon finn ; akin to Dutch vin , G. & Danish finne , Swedish fena , Latin pinna , penna , a wing, feather. Confer pen a feather.] 1. (Zoology) 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.

» Fishes move through the water chiefly by means of the caudal fin or tail, the principal office of the other fins being to balance or direct the body, though they are also, to a certain extent, employed in producing motion.

2. (Zoology) A membranous, finlike, swimming organ, as in pteropod and heteropod mollusks.

3. A finlike organ or attachment; a part of an object or product which protrudes like a fin , as: (a) The hand. [ Slang] (b) (Com.) A blade of whalebone. [ Eng.] McElrath.

(c) (Mech.) A mark or ridge left on a casting at the junction of the parts of a mold. (d) (Mech.) The thin sheet of metal squeezed out between the collars of the rolls in the process of rolling. Raymond.

(e) (Mech.) A feather; a spline.

4. A finlike appendage, as to submarine boats.

Apidose fin . (Zoology) See under Adipose , adjective -- Fin ray (Anat.) , one of the hornlike, cartilaginous, or bony, dermal rods which form the skeleton of the fins of fishes. -- Fin whale (Zoology) , a finback. -- Paired fins (Zoology) , the pectoral and ventral fins, corresponding to the fore and hind legs of the higher animals. -- Unpaired, or Median , fins (Zoology) , the dorsal, caudal, and anal fins.

Fin Fin noun (Aëronautics) A fixed stabilizing surface, usually vertical, similar in purpose to a bilge keel on a ship.

Fin de siècle Fin` de siè"cle [ French] Lit., end of the century; -- mostly used adjectively in English to signify: belonging to, or characteristic of, the close of the 19th century; modern; "up- to-date;" as, fin-de-siècle ideas.

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