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breaks in walls of frame houses with waterproof material, tarred paper, or the like. Cf. Filleting.

An ornament consisting of smmall fillets or slats intersecting each other or bent at right angles, as in classical designs, or at obilique angles, as often in Oriental art. His lady's cabinet is a adorned on the fret, ceiling, and chimney- piece with . . . carving. Evelyn.

A frontal or brow band; a fillet or band worn on the forehead. They shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. Deut. vi. 8.

A fillet; a band for the head. "The headbands and the tablets." Is. iii. 20.

A sort of fillet worn by dignitaries, priests, and others among the ancient Romans. It was generally white.

ly extended in all directions under the hammer, it is said to be malleable; and when into fillets under the rolling press, it is said to be laminable. Ure.

oth, particularly of broadcloth, and serving to strengthen it; hence, a strip of cloth; a fillet. " Gartered with a red and blue list. "

A bearing, in the form of a fillet, round the shield, within, but at some distance from, the border.

A list or fillet between the flutings of a column.

A fillet, or listel.

A fillet or narrow woven fabric, commonly of silk, used for trimming some part of a woman's attire, for badges, and other decorative purposes.

A bandage; a fillet; properly, a long and broad bandage used in surgery.

A fillet; a headband; a snood. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

The fillet which binds the hair of a young unmarried woman, and is emblematic of her maiden character. [Scot.] And seldom was a snood amid Such wild, luxuriant ringlets hid. Sir W. Scott.

A kind of ornament consisting of a narrow fillet or band folded, crossed, and interlaced.

A fillet between the flutes of columns, pilasters, or the like. Oxf. Gloss.

A band or fillet; a swathe. Shak. Swath bank, a row of new-mown grass. [Prov. Eng.]

The fillet, or band, at the bottom of a Doric frieze, separating it from the architrave.

A narrow fillet or band of cotton or linen; a narrow woven fabric used for strings and the like; as, curtains tied with tape.

Made of thread; as, threaden sails; a threaden fillet. [Obs.] Shak.