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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.

A concave filling in of a reëntrant angle where two surfaces meet, forming a rounded corner.

The filling or covering with water or other fluid; overflow; inundation; the filling anything to excess.

nd by tourists, etc. Ham. Nav. Encyc. Folding chairFolding door, one of two or more doors filling a single and hung upon hinges.

The act of fulfilling; accomplishment; completion; as, the fulfillment of prophecy.

A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river.

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

htest known substance, being fourteen and a half times lighter than air (hence its use in filling balloons), and over eleven thousand times lighter than water. It is very abundant, being an ingredient of water and of many other substances, especially those of animal or vegetable origin. It may by produced in many ways,…

Not fulfilling its design; not realizing an ideal; not conformed to a standard or rule; not satisfying the taste or conscience; esthetically or morally defective. Nothing imperfect or deficient left Of all that he created. Milton. Then say not man's imperfect, Heaven in fault; Say rather, man's as perfect as he ought.…

The act of filling, or the state of being full. Sir T. Browne.

The process of healing wounds and filling the part with new flesh; granulation.

The act of stuffing or filling; an overloading and obstruction of any organ or vessel of the body; constipation.

ance which has entered the pores or cavities of a body. Addison. Calcareous infiltrations filling the cavities. Kirwan. Fatty infiltration. (Med.) See under Fatty. -- Infiltration gallery, a filter gallery.

The act or process of filling vessels, cavities, or tissues with a fluid or other substance.

A fabrication to deceive; a fiction; a forgery; a falsehood. Filling their hearers With strange invention. Shak.

a kind of plastered house or hut, usually made by planting poles or timber in the ground, filling in between them with screen work or wickerwork, and daubing one or both sides with mud or adobe mortar; also, this method of construction.

used for making gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces, forming oakum for filling the seams of ships.

A firework made by filling a case with a substance which burns brilliantly with a white or colored flame; as, a Bengal light.

a given space in linen fabrics. -- Linen scroll, Linen pattern (Arch.), an ornament for filling panels, copied from the folds of a piece of stuff symmetrically disposed.