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; -- said to be fictitious name inserted in the models given to soldiers to guide them in filling out account blanks, etc.

f a pipe bowl; -- so called from its being often taken out and placed on top of the newly filled bowl. Also, a cigar stump. [Slang]

such as is used in the barometer. -- Torricellian vacuum (Physics), a vacuum produced by filling with a fluid, as mercury, a tube hermetically closed at one end, and, after immersing the other end in a vessel of the same fluid, allowing the inclosed fluid to descend till it is counterbalanced by the pressure of the at…

To keep touch. (a) To be true or punctual to a promise or engagement [Obs.]; hence, to fulfill duly a function. My mind and senses keep touch and time. Sir W. Scott.

As much as a tray will hold; enough to fill a tray.

The quantity or number which fills a tree.

or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next; as, to trench a garden for certain crops.

To fill; to stuff; to cram. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

As much as a trowel will hold; enough to fill a trowel.

As much as a trunk will hold; enough to fill a trunk.

As much as a tub will hold; enough to fill a tub.

As much as a tumbler will hold; enough to fill a tumbler.

Producing commotion; disturbing; exciting. Whose heads that turbulent liquor fills with fumes. Milton.

As much as a tureen can hold; enough to fill a tureen.

That upper stratum of earth and vegetable mold which is filled with the roots of grass and other small plants, so as to adhere and form a kind of mat; sward; sod. At his head a grass-green turf. Shak. The Greek historian sets her in the field on a high heap of turves. Milton.

A beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage; a cheval-de- frise. [R.] Turnpike man, a man who collects tolls at a turnpike. -- Turnpike road, a road on which turnpikes, or tollgates, are established by law, in order to collect from the users tolls to defray the cost of building, repairing, etc.

Not filled with din.

to set free from shackles or fastenings; to unite; to unfasten; to loose; as, unbind your fillets; to unbind a prisoner's arms; to unbind a load.

The lower or under side of a sirloin of beef; the fillet.

To fill underneath; to stuff. [Obs.] He drank and well his girdle underpight. Chaucer.