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To rub, smooth, or cut away, with a file; to sharpen with a file; as, to file a saw or a tooth.

A fragment or particle rubbed off by the act of filing; as, iron filings.

A prickly, climbing shrub of the genus Pisonia. The fruit is a kind of berry.

Plastering) the final coat of plastering applied to walls and ceilings, usually white and rubbed smooth. (b) (Painting) The final coat of paint, usually differently mixed applied from the others. -- Finishing press, a machine for pressing fabrics. -- Finishing rolls (Iron Working), the rolls of a train which receive…

The European band fish (Cepola rubescens).

A starfish with five rays, esp. Asterias rubens.

A worm or grub found among flags and sedge.

k bent down as if broken. Their color is usually red or pink. The American flamingo is P. ruber; the European is P. antiquorum.

, away from the vein outcrop. Raymond. -- Float stone (Arch.), a siliceous stone used to rub stonework or brickwork to a smooth surface. -- Float valve, a valve or cock acted upon by a float. See Float, 1 (b).

An inflated ball to be kicked in sport, usually made in India rubber, or a bladder incased in Leather. Waller.

A shrub of the Olive family, with yellow blossoms.

Rope yarn twisted together, and rubbed with tar; -- used for seizings or mats.

To rub; to wear off, or wear into shreds, by rubbing; to fret, as cloth; as, a deer is said to fray her head.

To rub; to wear away by friction; to chafe; to gall; hence, to eat away; to gnaw; as, to fret cloth; to fret a piece of gold or other metal; a worm frets the plants of a ship. With many a curve my banks I fret. Tennyson.

Rubbed or worn away; chafed.

Rubbed; marked; as, pock-fretten, marked with the smallpox. [Obs.] Wright.

[friabilis, fr. friare to rub, break, or crumble into small pieces, cf. fricare to rub, E. fray. cf. F. friable.) Easily crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder. "Friable ground." Evelyn. "Soft and friable texture." Paley. -- Fri'a-ble-ness, n.

An unguent; also, the act of rubbing with the unguent.

The act of rubbing the surface of one body against that of another; attrition; in hygiene, the act of rubbing the body with the hand, with flannel, or with a brush etc., to excite the skin to healthy action.

To rub; to fray. [Obs.] Sterne.