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To arrange in a file or rank; to place in order. [Obs.] Holland.

To cover with a film; to coat thinly; as, to infilm one metal with another in the process of gilding; to infilm the glass of a mirror. [R.]

To filter or sift in.

To enter by penetrating the pores or interstices of a substance; to filter into or through something. The water infiltrates through the porous rock. Addison.

The act or process of infiltrating, as if water into a porous substance, or of a fluid into the cells of an organ or part of the body.

Of or pertaining to infiltration. Kane.

See Cafila.

Neglect or failure to fulfill.

To fill to excess; to surcharge.

An outline, or contour; as, the profile of an apple.

In the construction of fieldworks, the erection at proper intervals of wooden profiles, to show to the workmen the sectional form of the parapets at those points.

One who takes profiles.

One of the two elongated vibratile young formed by fission of the embryo during the development of certain Gregarinæ.

A sort of ancient trimming of tinsel and thread for women's gowns; -- called also bobbinwork. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

To fill, or become full, again.

The six-shafted bird of paradise. See Paradise bird, under Paradise.

Undefiled. [Obs.] Gower.

The filling below or beneath; the under part of a building. Sir H. Wotton.

To remove from a file or record.

Not defiled; pure. [Obs.] Surrey.