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A halfround single-cut file or fioat, having one curved face and one straight face, -- used by comb makers. Knight.

Smeared or defiled with grease. With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers. Shak.

A hollow ball or shell of iron filled with powder of other explosive, ignited by means of a fuse, and thrown from the hand among enemies. Hand grenade. (a) A small grenade of iron or glass, usually about two and a half inches in diameter, to be thrown from the hand into the head of a sap, trenches, covered way, or upon…

A West African antelope (Cephalophus rufilotus) of a deep bay color, with a broad dorsal stripe of black; -- called also conquetoon.

To fill up or finish with grout, as the joints between stones.

The process of filling in or finishing with grout; also, the grout thus filled in. Gwilt.

trings twisted over each other in a continued series, leaving circular openings which are filled with round ornaments.

An insatiable thing or person. That sink of filth, that guzzle most impure. Marston.

of the boom of a fore-and-aft sail when the vessel is steered off the wind until the sail fills on the opposite side. [Also jibe.]

Certain species of nematodes of the genus Filaria, sometimes found in the blood of man, the horse, the dog, etc.

The collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin of an animal, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole of the body.

emicircular section. (b) (Mech.) Having one side flat and the other rounded; -- said of a file. -- Half shift (Mus.), a position of the hand, between the open position and the first shift, in playing on the violin and kindred instruments. See Shift. -- Half step (Mus.), a semitone; the smallest difference of pitch or…

Half-filled. [Obs.] Lions' half-clammed entrails roar food. Marston.

Constructed of a timber frame, having the spaces filled in with masonry; -- said of buildings.

A filamentous substance; especially, the filaments of flax or hemp.

A fabulous winged monster, ravenous and filthy, having the face of a woman and the body of a vulture, with long claws, and the face pale with hunger. Some writers mention two, others three. Both table and provisions vanished guite. With sound of harpies' wings and talons heard. Milton.

, as the C. avellana, bearing a nut containing a kernel of a mild, farinaceous taste; the filbert. The American species are C. Americana, which produces the common hazelnut, and C. rostrata. See Filbert. Gray.

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

To form or round into a heap, as in measuring; to fill (a measure) more than even full.

One who affiliates with Greeks, or imitates Greek manners; esp., a person of Jewish extraction who used the Greek language as his mother tongue, as did the Jews of Asia Minor, Greece, Syria, and Egypt; distinguished from the Hebraists, or native Jews (Acts vi. 1).