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The part of a knife, fork, file, or other small instrument, which is inserted into the handle.

g a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file.

An instrument such as a hammer, saw, plane, file, and the like, used in the manual arts, to facilitate mechanical operations; any instrument used by a craftsman or laborer at his work; an implement; as, the tools of a joiner, smith, shoe-maker, etc.; also, a cutter, chisel, or other part of an instrument or machine tha…

cogwheel; a tooth, prong, or tine, of a fork; a tooth, or the teeth, of a rake, a saw, a file, a card.

east or southeast of Jerusalem, in the valley of Hinnom. [Written also Topheth.] And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom. 2 Kings xxiii. 10.

A three-square float (file) used by comb makers.

A lage molding used in the bases of columns. Its profile is semicircular. See Illust. of Molding. Brande&C.

To make an impression on; to have effect upon. Its face . . . so hard that a file will not touch it. Moxon.

The filefish; -- so called in Bermuda.

of valleys, resembling a broad U in cross profile.

Not blemished; undefiled; pure. [Obs.] Wyclif. With body clean and with unwemmed thought. Chaucer.

ex who has not known sexual indulgence. [Archaic] Wyclif. These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. Rev. xiv. 4. He his flesh hath overcome; He was a virgin, as he said. Gower.

The quality or state of being a virgin; undefiled purity or chastity; maidenhood.

ly; fountain; wellspring. "This well of mercy." Chaucer. Dan Chaucer, well of English undefiled. Spenser. A well of serious thought and pure. Keble.

e sin of worshiping idols; idolatry. O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled; they will not . . . turn unto their God. Hos. v. 3, 4.

mond he greets your wife withal. Shak. Whatsoever uncleanness it be that a man shall be defiled withal. Lev. v. 3.

sion; an author; as, a writer of novels. This pitch, as ancient writers do report, doth defile. Shak.