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To fill or impregnate with a perfume; to scent. And Carmel's flowery top perfumes the skies. Pope.

To suffuse; to fill full or to excess. Harvey.

A case containing powder to be exploded, esp. a conical or cylindrical case of metal filled with powder and attached to a plank, to be exploded against and break down gates, barricades, drawbridges, etc. It has been superseded.

eit in a social game that is played in various ways; also, the game itself. [Written also fillipeen and phillippine.]

A particle of ink or paper imbedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face, and occasioning a spot on a printed sheet. MacKellar.

Colored; specifically (Biol.), filled or imbued with pigment; as, pigmented epithelial cells; pigmented granules.

To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles. To sheet-pile, to make sheet piling in or around. See Sheet piling, under 2nd Piling.

Anything used to support the head of a person when reposing; especially, a sack or case filled with feathers, down, hair, or other soft material. [Resty sloth] finds the down pillow hard. Shak.

In embryonic development, a vesicle filled with fluid, formed from the morula by the divergence of its cells in such a manner as to give rise to a central space, around which the cells arrange themselves as an envelope; an embryonic form intermediate between the morula and gastrula. Sometimes used as synonymous with ga…

A list or fillet between the flutings of a column.

Enough to fill a plate; as much as a plate will hold.

ht to the table. The attendants . . . speedly brought in several large, smoking platters, filled with huge pieces of beef. Sir W. Scott.

Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole; a stopple.

Well rounded or filled out; full; fleshy; fat; as, a plump baby; plump cheeks. Shak. The god of wine did his plump clusters bring. T. Carew.

Fitted to contain air; Having cavities filled with air; as, pneumatic cells; pneumatic bones. Pneumatic action, or Pneumatic lever (Mus.), a contrivance for overcoming the resistance of the keys and other movable parts in an organ, by causing compressed air from the wind chest to move them. -- Pneumatic dispatch, a sy…

The state of being pneumatic, or of having a cavity or cavities filled with air; as, the pneumaticity of the bones of birds.

As much as a pocket will hold; enough to fill a pocket; as, pocketfuls of chestnuts.

To swell; to fill; also, to produce pods.

To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or mortar, and bringing it to a smooth surface.

The act of filling and finishing the joints in masonry with mortar, cement, etc.; also, the material so used.