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One of the thills or shafts of a carriage. Mortimer. Fill horse, a thill horse. Shak.

An inferior kind of cheese made from skim milk with a fatty "filling," such as oleomargarine or lard, to replace the fat removed in the cream.

One who, or that which, fills; something used for filling. 'T is mere filer, to stop a vacancy in the hexameter. Dryden. They have six diggers to four fillers, so as to keep the fillers always at work. Mortimer.

ittle band, especially one intended to encircle the hair of the head. A belt her waist, a fillet binds her hair. Pope.

The material of which fillets are made; also, fillets, collectively.

A kilt. See Filibeg.

See Filibuster.

That which is used to fill a cavity or any empty space, or to supply a deficiency; as, filling for a cavity in a tooth, a depression in a roadbed, the space between exterior and interior walls of masonry, the pores of open-grained wood, the space between the outer and inner planks of a vessel, etc.

To snap; to project quickly. The use of the elastic switch to fillip small missiles with. Tylor.

See Philopena.

A plane for making a rabbet. Fillister screw had, a short cylindrical screw head, having a convex top.

A female foal or colt; a young mare. Cf. Colt, Foal. Neighing in likeness of a filly foal. Shak.

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.

Neglect or failure to fulfill.

To fill to excess; to surcharge.

To fill, or become full, again.

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

To fill up. [Obs.]