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Filthy; worthless. [Obs.] "Drasty ryming." Chaucer.

To select by the drawing of lots. Provided magistracies were filled by men freely chosen or drawn. Freeman.

Corrupt or defiling matter contained in a liquid, or precipitated from it; refuse; feculence; lees; grounds; sediment; hence, the vilest and most worthless part of anything; as, the dregs of society. We, the dregs and rubbish of mankind. Dryden.

To appropriate unlawfully; to filch; to defalcate. He who drives their bargain dribs a part. Dryden.

Drilling. Imperial drill, a linen fabric having two threads in the warp and three in the filling.

An Old World species of Spiræa (S. filipendula), with finely cut leaves.

Turbid; muddy; filthy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A cavity in a rock, having its interior surface studded with crystals and sometimes filled with water; a geode.

ub a fly, to dress a fishing fly. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. -- To dub out (Plastering), to fill out, as an uneven surface, to a plane, or to carry out a series of small projections.

The property of a metal which allows it to be drawn into wires or filaments.

Such as (a thing) ought to be; fulfilling obligation; proper; lawful; regular; appointed; sufficient; exact; as, due process of law; due service; in due time.

Full of dung; filthy; vile; low. Shak.

Filled, covered, or sprinkled with dust; clouded with dust; as, a dusty table; also, reducing to dust. And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Shak.

Fulfilling duty; dutiful; having the sentiments due to a superior, or to one to whom respect or service is owed; obedient; as, a duteous son or daughter.

A disease in wheat, in which the blackened and contracted grain, or ear, is filled with minute worms.

A bag filled with earth, used commonly to raise or repair a parapet.

he Western, or Roman, Church over the question of papal supremacy and the doctrine of the filioque, and a separation, begun in the latter part of the 9th century, became final in 1054. The Eastern Church consists of twelve (thirteen if the Bulgarian Church be included) mutually independent churches (including among the…

or eyelashes. And closing eaves of wearied eyes. Tennyson. Eaves board (Arch.), an arris fillet, or a thick board with a feather edge, nailed across the rafters at the eaves of a building, to raise the lower course of slates a little, or to receive the lowest course of tiles; -- called also eaves catch and eaves lath.…

guished from telic, which denotes intention or purpose; thus the phrase so that it was fulfilled," is ecbatic; if rendered "in order that it might be." etc., is telic.

To fill ecstasy, or with rapture or enthusiasm. [Obs.] The most ecstasied order of holy . . . spirits. Jer. Taylor.