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lection of papers, arranged in sequence or classified for preservation and reference; as, files of letters or of newspapers; this mail brings English files to the 15th instant.

A commissioned or noncommissioned officer posted in the rear of a line, or on the flank of a column, of soldiers, to rectify mistakes and insure steadiness and promptness in the ranks.

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.

See Feullemort. Swift.

One who works with a file.

f or pertaining to a son or daughter; becoming to a child in relation to his parents; as, filial obedience.

In a filial manner.

To adopt as son or daughter; to establish filiation between. [R.] Southey.

lationship of a son or child to a parent, esp. to a father. The relation of paternity and filiation. Sir M. Hale.

Same as Kilt. [Written also philibeg.]

To act as a filibuster, or military freebooter. Bartlett.

The characteristics or practices of a filibuster. Bartlett.

Belonging to the Filices, r ferns.

Pertaining to, or derived from, ferns; as, filicic acid.

The act of murdering a son or a daughter; also, parent who commits such a murder.

Shaped like a fern or like the parts of a fern leaf. Smart.

Fernlike, either in form or in the nature of the method of reproduction.

The relation of a son to a father; sonship; -- the correlative of paternity. J. S. Mill.

Producing threads. Carpenter.

Having the shape of a thread or filament; as, the filiform papillæ of the tongue; a filiform style or peduncle. See Illust. of AntennÆ.