Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.