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A measure for fresh herrings, -- as many as will fill a barrel. [Scot.] H. Miller.

chine shop or foundry. -- Water crane, a kind of hydrant with a long swinging spout, for filling locomotive tenders, water carts, etc., with water.

chink, as in a wall, or other substance. In a firm building, the cavities ought not to be filled with rubbish, but with brick or stone fitted to the crannies. Dryden. He peeped into every cranny. Arbuthnot.

A kind of cake filled with custard made of cream, eggs, etc.

rust given or received; expectation of future playment for property transferred, or of fulfillment or promises given; mercantile reputation entitling one to be trusted; -- applied to individuals, corporations, communities, or nations; as, to buy goods on credit. Credit is nothing but the expectation of money, within so…

An open frame or basket of iron, filled with combustible material, to be burned as a beacon; an open lamp or firrepan carried on a pole in nocturnal processions. Starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus. Milton. As a cresset true that darts its length Of beamy luster from a tower of strength. W…

To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity. The balconies and verandas were crowded with spectators, anxious to behold their future sovereign. Prescott.

A wreath or garland, or any ornamental fillet encircling the head, especially as a reward of victory or mark of honorable distinction; hence, anything given on account of, or obtained by, faithful or successful effort; a reward. "An olive branch and laurel crown." Shak. They do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we…

One whose office it is to fill and hand the cups at an enterainment.

val form of a tapeworm, having the head and neck of a tapeworm attached to a saclike body filled with fluid; -- called also bladder worm, hydatid, and measle (as, pork measle).

A shell or cup of pastry filled with custard, whipped cream, crushed macaroons, etc.

To render impervious to sound, as a partition or floor, by filling the space within with mortar, by lining with paper, etc.

ing impervious to sound, as a floor or wall; also, the material with which the spaces are filled in this process; pugging.

d of glass bottle used for holding wine or other liquors, from which drinking glasses are filled.

To fail in fulfilling a contract, agreement, or duty.

Filled with desire; eager. [R.] The desireful troops. Godfrey (1594).

Originally, an ornamental head band or fillet, worn by Eastern monarchs as a badge of royalty; hence (later), also, a crown, in general. "The regal diadem." Milton.

A wall-like mass of mineral matter, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata.

To alienate or diminish the affection of; to make unfriendly or less friendly; to fill with discontent and unfriendliness. They had attempted to disaffect and discontent his majesty's late army. Clarendon.

, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled; as, to discharge a cargo.