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; a membranous covering, causing opacity; hence, any thin, slight covering. He from thick films shall purge the visual ray. Pope.

State of being filmy.

Composed of film or films. Whose filmy cord should bind the struggling fly. Dryden.

Having the structure of a filoplume.

A hairlike feather; a father with a slender scape and without a web in most or all of its length.

Terminating in a threadlike process.

A kind of silk thread less glossy than floss, and spun from coarser material. It is much used in embroidery instead of floss.

sed after a French proper name to distinguish a son from his father, as, Alexandre Dumas, fils.

r device containing such substance; a strainer; also, a similar device for purifying air. Filter bed, a pond, the bottom of which is a filter composed of sand gravel. -- Filter gallery, an underground gallery or tunnel, alongside of a stream, to collect the water that filters through the intervening sand and gravel; -…

Foul matter; anything that soils or defiles; dirt; nastiness.

In a filthy manner; foully.

The state of being filthy. Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit. 2 Cor. vii. 1.

Defiled with filth, whether material or moral; nasty; dirty; polluted; foul; impure; obscene. "In the filthy-mantled pool." Shak. He which is filthy let him be filthy still. Rev. xxii. 11.

To filter; to defecate; as liquid, by straining or percolation. Arbuthnot.

The act or process of filtering; the mechanical separation of a liquid from the undissolved particles floating in it.

See Affiliated. [Obs.]

See Affiliation. [Obs.]

To polish. [Obs.]

Capable of being affiliated to or on, or connected with in origin.

family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally. Is the soul affiliated to God, or is it estranged and in rebellion I. Taylor.