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To defile by adultery. [Obs.] Milton.

The ground-plan of a railway or other road, in distinction from the grades or profile.

A request; a document containing a request; as, his application was placed on file.

A soiling; defilement.

To corrupt; to defile; to contaminate. [Obs.] Blount.

Like a fish of the genus Balistes; of the family Balistidæ. See Filefish.

architrave, pier, shaft, etc. (Arch.), an architrave, pier, etc., of which the regular profile is interrupted by blocks or projections crossing it at right angles.

Lepas and allies). See Cirripedia, and Goose barnacle. Barnacle eater (Zoöl.), the orange filefish. -- Barnacle scale (Zoöl.), a bark louse (Ceroplastes cirripediformis) of the orange and quince trees in Florida. The female scale curiously resembles a sessile barnacle in form.

astard ashlar (Arch.), stones for ashlar work, roughly squared at the quarry. -- Bastard file, a file intermediate between the coarsest and the second cut. -- Bastard type (Print.), type having the face of a larger or a smaller size than the body; e.g., a nonpareil face on a brevier body. -- Bastard wing (Zoöl.), th…

To cover with dung, as for manuring; to bedaub or defile, literally or figuratively. Bp. Hall.

TO make foul; to soil; to defile. [Obs.] Milton.

To defile with slaver; to beslobber.

To blacken; also, to defile. [Obs. or Dial.] Wyclif.

A large pustule, or a coarse eruption. Foul scurf and blotches him defile. Thomson.

A straight tool with file teeth, made of steel, to be pressed through irregular holes in metal that cannot be dressed by revolving tools; a drift.

A genus of small dipterous files, including several very injurious species, as the Hessian fly. See Hessian fly.

ful sexual intercourse; virtuous; continent. "As chaste as Diana." Shak. Whose bed is undefiled and chaste pronounced. Milton.

A whisk to keep off files, used in the East Indies. Malcom.

Free from moral defilement; sinless; pure. Create in me a clean heart, O God. Ps. li. 10 That I am whole, and clean, and meet for Heaven Tennyson.

To free from impediment or incumbrance, from defilement, or from anything injurious, useless, or offensive; as, to clear land of trees or brushwood, or from stones; to clear the sight or the voice; to clear one's self from debt; -- often used with of, off, away, or out. Clear your mind of cant. Dr. Johnson. A statue li…