Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FIL'LA-GREE, n. [See FILIGRANE.]

FILL'ED, pp.

Made full; supplied with abundance.

FILLE-DE-CHAMBRE, n. [Fille de chambre. Fr.]

A chamber maid.

FILL'ER, n.

1. One who fills; one whose employment is to fill vessels. They have six diggers to four fillers, so as to keep the fillers always at work. Mortimer.
2. That which fills any space. Dryden.
3. One that supplies abundantly.

FIL'LET, n. [Fr. filet, a thread, from file, L. filum.]

1. A little band to tie about the hair of the head. A belt her waist, a fillet binds her hair. Pope.
2. The fleshy part of the thigh; applied to veal; as, a fillet of veal.
3. Meat rolled together and tied round. Swift.
4. In architecture, a little square member or ornament used in divers places, but generally as a corona over a greater molding; called also listel. Also the broad longitudinal ridge between the flutings of a Grecian column, except the Doric.
5. In heraldry, a kind of orle or bordure, containing only the third or fourth pact of the breadth of the common bordure. It runs quite round near the edge, as a lace over a cloke. Encyc.
6. Among painters and gilders, a little rule or reglet of leaf-gold, drawn over certain moldings, or on the edges of frames, pannels, &c., especially when painted white, by way of enrichment. Encyc.
7. In the manege, the loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests. Encyc.

FIL'LET, v.t.

1. To bind with a fillet or little band.
2. To adorn with an astragal. Ex. xxxviii.

FIL'LET-ED, pp.

Bound with a little band.

FIL'LET-ING, ppr.

Binding with a little band or fillet.

FIL'LI-BEG, or PHIL'LI-BEG, n. [Gael. filleadh-beg.]

A little plaid; a dress reaching only to the knees, worn in the highlands of Scotland.

FILL'ING, n.

1. A making full; supply.
2. The woof in weaving.

FILL'ING, ppr.

Making full; supplying abundantly; growing full.

FIL'LIP, n.

A jerk of the finger forced suddenly from the thumb.

FIL'LIP, v.t. [probably from the root of L. pello, like pelt, W. fil. See Filly.]

To strike with the nail of the finger, first placed against the ball of the thumb, and forced from that position with some violence.

FIL'LIP-ING, ppr.

Striking with the nail or end of the finger.

FIL'LY, n. [W. filawg, from fil, a send, a dart; coinciding with Fr. fille, L. filia, Eng. foal, a shoot, issue.]

1. A female or mare colt; a young mare.
2. A young horse. [Not used.] Tusser.
3. A wanton girl. Beaum.

FILM, n. [Sax. film. Qu. W. fylliaw, to shade or grow over, or It. velame, a vail, a film, L. velamen, or from L. pellis.]

A thin skin; a pellicle, as on the eye. In plants, it denotes the thin skin which separates the seeds in pods.

FILM, v.t.

To cover with a thin skin or pellicle. Shak.

FILM'I-NESS, n.

State of being filmy.

FILM'Y, a.

Composed of thin membranes or pellicles. Whose filmy cord should bind the struggling fly. Dryden.

FIL'TER, n. [Fr. filtre, feutre; Sp. filtro; It. feltro; properly felt, fulled wool, lana coacta, this being used for straining liquors.]

A strainer; a piece of woolen cloth; paper or other substance, through which liquors are passed for defecation. A filter may be made in the form of a hollow inverted cone, or by a twist of thread or yarn, being wetted and one end pot in the liquor and the other suffered to hang out below the surface of the liquor. Porous stone is often used as a filter.

FIL'TER, n. [See PHILTER.]

FIL'TER, v.i.

To percolate; to pass through a filter.

FIL'TER, v.t.

To purify or defecate liquor, by passing it through a filter, or causing it to pass through a porous substance that retains any feculent matter.

FIL'TER-ED, pp.

Strained; defecated by a filter.

FIL'TER-ING, ppr.

Straining; defecating.