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A fragment or particle rubbed off by the act of filing; as, iron filings.

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

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.

t was produced in the first place by the accidental (par aventure) dropping of some brass filings into a pot of melted glass.

A stain; a spot; a smooch. Defiling her white lawn of chastity with ugly blacks of lust. Rowley. Black and white, writing or print; as, I must have that statement in black and white. -- Blue black, a pigment of a blue black color. -- Ivory black, a fine kind of animal charcoal prepared by calcining ivory or bones. Wh…

ng. A common form of coherer as used in wireless telegraphy consists of a tube containing filings (usually a pinch of nickel and silver filings in equal parts) between terminal wires or plugs (called conductor plugs).

This act of defiling; defilement; pollution. Bp. Hall.

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.

Corrupt or defiling matter contained in a liquid, or precipitated from it; refuse; feculence; lees; grounds; sediment; hence, the vilest and most worthless part of anything; as, the dregs of society. We, the dregs and rubbish of mankind. Dryden.

ombustion of materials that burn in some peculiar manner, as gunpowder, sulphur, metallic filings, and various salts. The most common feature of fireworks is a paper or pasteboard tube filled with the combustible material. A number of these tubes or cases are often combined so as to make, when kindled, a great variety…

A defiling; pollution; stain. [Obs.] Bacon.

el surfaces to guide a tool, as a drill, or to form a shield or templet to work to, as in filing.

s guided or limited; -- used for forming the profile of an irregularly shaped piece; a profiling machine.

To proceed against by filing a libel, particularly against a ship or goods.

Filings of metal. [Obs.] "An ounce . . . of silver lymaille." Chaucer.

The act of filing or polishing.

The act of filing.

-- Machine shop, a workshop where machines are made, or where metal is shaped by cutting, filing, turning, etc. -- Machine tool, a machine for cutting or shaping wood, metal, etc., by means of a tool; especially, a machine, as a lathe, planer, drilling machine, etc., designed for a more or less general use in a machin…

Magnetic curves, curves indicating lines of magnetic force, as in the arrangement of iron filings between the poles of a powerful magnet. -- Magnetic elements. (a) (Chem. Physics) Those elements, as iron, nickel, cobalt, chromium, manganese, etc., which are capable or becoming magnetic. (b) (Physics) In respect to ter…

To shape the outline of an object by passing a cutter around it. Profiling machine, a jigging machine.