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  • English Word File Definition To smooth or polish as with a file.
  • English Word File Definition To make foul; to defile.
  • English Word Filed Definition of File
  • English Word Filefish Definition Any plectognath fish of the genera Monacanthus, Alutera, balistes, and allied genera; -- so called on account of the roughly granulated skin, which is sometimes used in place of sandpaper.
  • English Word Filemot Definition See Feullemort.
  • English Word Filer Definition One who works with a file.
  • English Word Filial Definition Of or pertaining to a son or daughter; becoming to a child in relation to his parents; as, filial obedience.
  • English Word Filial Definition Bearing the relation of a child.
  • English Word Filially Definition In a filial manner.
  • English Word Filiate Definition To adopt as son or daughter; to establish filiation between.
  • English Word Filiation Definition The relationship of a son or child to a parent, esp. to a father.
  • English Word Filiation Definition The assignment of a bastard child to some one as its father; affiliation.
  • English Word Filibeg Definition Same as Kilt.
  • English Word Filibuster Definition A lawless military adventurer, especially one in quest of plunder; a freebooter; -- originally applied to buccaneers infesting the Spanish American coasts, but introduced into common English to designate the followers of Lopez in his expedition to Cuba in 1851, and those of Walker in his expedition to Nicaragua, in 1855.
  • English Word Filibuster Definition To act as a filibuster, or military freebooter.
  • English Word Filibuster Definition To delay legislation, by dilatory motions or other artifices.
  • English Word Filibustering Definition of Filibuster
  • English Word Filibusterism Definition The characteristics or practices of a filibuster.
  • English Word Filical Definition Belonging to the Filices, r ferns.
  • English Word Filicic Definition Pertaining to, or derived from, ferns; as, filicic acid.
  • English Word Filicide Definition The act of murdering a son or a daughter; also, parent who commits such a murder.
  • English Word Filiciform Definition Shaped like a fern or like the parts of a fern leaf.
  • English Word Filicoid Definition Fernlike, either in form or in the nature of the method of reproduction.
  • English Word Filicoid Definition A fernlike plant.
  • English Word Filiety Definition The relation of a son to a father; sonship; -- the correlative of paternity.
  • English Word Filiferous Definition Producing threads.
  • English Word Filiform Definition Having the shape of a thread or filament; as, the filiform papillae of the tongue; a filiform style or peduncle. See Illust. of AntennAe.
  • English Word Filigrain Definition Alt. of Filigrane
  • English Word Filigrane Definition Filigree.
  • English Word Filigraned Definition See Filigreed.