FPage 81
- English Word Filigree Definition Ornamental work, formerly with grains or breads, but now composed of fine wire and used chiefly in decorating gold and silver to which the wire is soldered, being arranged in designs frequently of a delicate and intricate arabesque pattern.
- English Word Filigree Definition Relating to, composed of, or resembling, work in filigree; as, a filigree basket. Hence: Fanciful; unsubstantial; merely decorative.
- English Word Filigreed Definition Adorned with filigree.
- English Word Filing Definition A fragment or particle rubbed off by the act of filing; as, iron filings.
- English Word Filing Definition of File
- English Word Filipendulous Definition Suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; -- said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootlets.
- English Word Fill Definition One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.
- English Word Fill Definition 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.
- English Word Fill Definition 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.
- English Word Fill Definition To fill or supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.
- English Word Fill Definition 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.
- English Word Fill Definition To supply with an incumbent; as, to fill an office or a vacancy.
- English Word Fill Definition To press and dilate, as a sail; as, the wind filled the sails.
- English Word Fill Definition To trim (a yard) so that the wind shall blow on the after side of the sails.
- English Word Fill Definition To make an embankment in, or raise the level of (a low place), with earth or gravel.
- English Word Fill Definition 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.
- English Word Fill Definition To fill a cup or glass for drinking.
- English Word Fill Definition A full supply, as much as supplies want; as much as gives complete satisfaction.
- English Word Filled Definition of Fill
- English Word Filler Definition One who, or that which, fills; something used for filling.
- English Word Filler Definition A thill horse.
- English Word Fillet Definition A little band, especially one intended to encircle the hair of the head.
- English Word Fillet Definition A piece of lean meat without bone; sometimes, a long strip rolled together and tied.
- English Word Fillet Definition 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.
- English Word Fillet Definition A concave filling in of a reentrant angle where two surfaces meet, forming a rounded corner.
- English Word Fillet Definition 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.
- English Word Fillet Definition An ordinary equaling in breadth one fourth of the chief, to the lowest portion of which it corresponds in position.
- English Word Fillet Definition The thread of a screw.
- English Word Fillet Definition A border of broad or narrow lines of color or gilt.
- English Word Fillet Definition The raised molding about the muzzle of a gun.