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ived by gift or without purchase; a benefaction. To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away. 1 Pet. i. 4.

ribery; the iniquity of an unjust judge. Till the world from his perfection fell Into all filth and foul iniquity. Spenser.

To fill (a vessel, cavity, or tissue) with a fluid or other substance; as, to inject the blood vessels.

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

Joined by the base to the very tip of a filament; as, an innate anther. Gray. Innate ideas (Metaph.), ideas, as of God, immortality, right and wrong, supposed by some to be inherent in the mind, as a priori principles of knowledge.

To defile; to pollute; to contaminate; to befoul. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A defiling; pollution; stain. [Obs.] Bacon.

matter, and furnished wholesale to offices of small newspapers, where the blank pages are filled up with recent and local news.

To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate. When Zephirus eek, with his sweete breath, Inspirèd hath in every holt and health The tender crops. Chaucer. Descend, ye Nine, descend and sing, The breathing instruments inspire. Pope.

Untouched, especially by anything that harms, defiles, or the like; uninjured; undefiled; left complete or entire. Buckle. When all external differences have passed away, one element remains intact, unchanged, -- the everlasting basis of our common nature, the human soul. F. W. Robertson.

freedom from corrupting influence or motive; -- used especially with reference to the fulfillment of contracts, the discharge of agencies, trusts, and the like; uprightness; rectitude. The moral grandeur of independent integrity is the sublimest thing in nature. Buckminster. Their sober zeal, integrity. and worth. Cow…

Pure; undefiled. [Obs.]

having the form of a siphon, the water beginning to flow when it has accumulated so as to fill the upper part of the siphon, and ceasing when, by running through it, it has fallen below the orifice of the upper part of the siphon in the reservoir.

To fill up intermediate terms of, as of a series, according to the law of the series; to introduce, as a number or quantity, in a partial series, according to the law of that part of the series.

To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate; to embarrass. [Obs.] How doth it [sin] perplex and intrique the whole course of your lives! Dr. J. Scott.

To fill with an overflowing abundance or superfluity; as, the country was inundated with bills of credit.

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

Unviolated; uninjured; undefiled; uncorrupted. For thou, be sure, shalt give account To him who sent us, whose charge is to keep This place inviolable, and these from harm. Milton.

Not corrupted, defiled, or profaned; chaste; pure. "Inviolate truth." Denham. There chaste Alceste lives inviolate. Spenser.

f sporangia, in certain ferns, as in the common brake, or the cup-shaped processes of the filmy ferns.