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Filigree. [Archaic] With her head . . . touches the crown of filigrane. Longfellow.

See Filigreed. [Archaic]

Relating to, composed of, or resembling, work in filigree; as, a filigree basket. Hence: Fanciful; unsubstantial; merely decorative. You ask for reality, not fiction and filigree work. J. C. Shairp.

Adorned with filigree. Tatler.

A fragment or particle rubbed off by the act of filing; as, iron filings.

The Latin for, "and from the Son," equivalent to et filio, inserted by the third council of Toledo (a. d. 589) in the clause qui ex Patre procedit (who proceedeth from the Father) of the Niceno- Constantinopolitan Creed (a. d. 381), which makes a creed state that the Holy Ghost proceeds from the Son as well as from the…

Suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; -- said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootlets.

A native of the Philippine Islands, specif. one of Spanish descent or of mixed blood.

One of the thills or shafts of a carriage. Mortimer. Fill horse, a thill horse. Shak.

An inferior kind of cheese made from skim milk with a fatty "filling," such as oleomargarine or lard, to replace the fat removed in the cream.

One who, or that which, fills; something used for filling. 'T is mere filer, to stop a vacancy in the hexameter. Dryden. They have six diggers to four fillers, so as to keep the fillers always at work. Mortimer.

ittle band, especially one intended to encircle the hair of the head. A belt her waist, a fillet binds her hair. Pope.

The material of which fillets are made; also, fillets, collectively.

A kilt. See Filibeg.

See Filibuster.

That which is used to fill a cavity or any empty space, or to supply a deficiency; as, filling for a cavity in a tooth, a depression in a roadbed, the space between exterior and interior walls of masonry, the pores of open-grained wood, the space between the outer and inner planks of a vessel, etc.

thumb, and forced from that position with a sudden spring; to snap with the finger. "You filip me o' the head." Shak.

See Philopena.

A plane for making a rabbet. Fillister screw had, a short cylindrical screw head, having a convex top.

A female foal or colt; a young mare. Cf. Colt, Foal. Neighing in likeness of a filly foal. Shak.