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A mulct or fine imposed on a person for making a fight or quarrel to the disturbance of the peace.

To make f [Obs.] All his hairy breast with blood was filed.Spenser. For Banquo's issue have I filed mind.Shak.

To make an embankment in, or raise the level of (a low place), with earth or gravel. To fill in, to insert; as, he filled in the figures. -- To fill out, to extend or enlarge to the desired limit; to make complete; as, to fill out a bill. -- To fill up, to make quite full; to fill to the brim or entirely; to occupy c…

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

A band of white matter bordering the hippocampus in the brain. -- Fim"bri*al, a.

A narrow inlet of the sea, penetrating between high banks or rocks, as on the coasts of Norway and Alaska. [Written also fjord.]

The European band fish (Cepola rubescens).

e fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest. Your kindness banishes your fear, Resolved to fix forever here. Waller.

r ask information; -- commonly attached to a staff to be waved by the wind; a standard; a banner; an ensign; the colors; as, the national flag; a military or a naval flag.

some smooth table, boards, or flakes of wands, and they will last the longer. English Husbandman.

an extended plain; specifically, in the United States, a level tract along the along the banks of a river; as, the Mohawk Flats. Envy is as the sunbeams that beat hotter upon a bank, or steep rising ground, than upon a flat. Bacon.

To banish; to drive out; to expel. [Obs.] "Appetite flemeth discretion." Chaucer.

One who, or that which, banishes or expels. [Obs.] Chaucer.

. Warburton. [Congress] fletched their complaint, by adding: "America loved his brother." Bancroft.

A bank note. [Slang, Eng.]

manner; as, to fling out hard words against another. -- To fling up, to relinquish; to abandon; as, to fling up a design.

hence, a great quantity widely diffused; an overflowing; a superabundance; as, a flood of bank notes; a flood of paper currency.

Represented as flying or streaming in the air; as, a banner flotant.

ly, near places of danger where visible signals would be hidden in thick weather. -- Fog bank, a mass of fog resting upon the sea, and resembling distant land. -- Fog ring, a bank of fog arranged in a circular form, -- often seen on the coast of Newfoundland.

A style of printing calico, paper hangings, etc., in which the colors are in bands and graduated into each other. Ure.