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ent or ascertaining of parentage; the assignment of a child, as a bastard, to its father; filiation.

The pin grass (Erodium cicutarium), a weed in California.

Same as Alfilaria.

Two-threaded; involving the use of two threads; as, bifilar suspension; a bifilar balance. Bifilar micrometer (often called a bifilar), an instrument form measuring minute distances or angles by means of two very minute threads (usually spider lines), one of which, at least, is movable; -- more commonly called a filar…

See Cafila.

A caravan of travelers; a military supply train or government caravan; a string of pack horses.

A filter, as for sugar, in which a cylinder with a porous or foraminous periphery is rapidly rotated so as to drive off liquid by centrifugal action.

Clownishly; surlily.

To raise, as a rampart, so as to shelter interior works commanded from some higher point.

The art or act of determining the directions and heights of the lines of rampart with reference to the protection of the interior from exposure to an enemy's fire from any point within range, or from any works which may be erected. Farrow.

To march off in a line, file by file; to file off.

The protection of the interior walls of a fortification from an enfilading fire, as by covering them, or by a high parapet on the exposed side.

One who defiles; one who corrupts or violates; that which pollutes.

Abstraction of a child from its parents. Lamb.

The process of smooth filing by working the file sidewise instead of lengthwise.

A line or straight passage, or the position of that which lies in a straight line. [R.]

bject, as the head of a man or beast, impaled upon it; as, a sword which is said to be "enfiled of" the thing which it pierces.

To fill up; to make full or complete. [Obs.] "Fulfill her week" Gen. xxix. 27. Suffer thou that the children be fulfilled first, for it is not good to take the bread of children and give to hounds. Wyclif (Mark vii. 27).

One who fulfills. South.

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