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lection of papers, arranged in sequence or classified for preservation and reference; as, files of letters or of newspapers; this mail brings English files to the 15th instant.

A commissioned or noncommissioned officer posted in the rear of a line, or on the flank of a column, of soldiers, to rectify mistakes and insure steadiness and promptness in the ranks.

Any plectognath fish of the genera Monacanthus, Alutera, balistes, and allied genera; -- so called on account of the roughly granulated skin, which is sometimes used in place of sandpaper.

See Feullemort. Swift.

One who works with a file.

To polish. [Obs.]

Same as Alfilaria.

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

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

The act of defiling, or state of being defiled, whether physically or morally; pollution; foulness; dirtiness; uncleanness. Defilements of the flesh. Hopkins. The chaste can not rake into such filth without danger of defilement. Addison.

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

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

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

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

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

Undefiled. [Obs.] Gower.

To remove from a file or record.

Not defiled; pure. [Obs.] Surrey.

A narrow pass or defile; a break in a mesa; the mouth of a cañon. [Southwestern U. S.]