Word Meanings - LIMATURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of filing. 2. That which is filed off; filings. Johnson.

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• FILOSELLE
  A kind of silk thread less glossy than floss, and spun from coarser material. It is much used in embroidery instead of floss.
• FILAMENTOUS
  Like a thread; consisting of threads or filaments. Gray.
• FILIPENDULOUS
  Suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; -- said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootlets.
• FILLIPEEN
  See PHILOPENA
• FILIALLY
  In a filial manner.
• FILLIBEG
  A kilt. See Filibeg.
• FILICAL
  Belonging to the Filices, r ferns.
• FILMINESS
  State of being filmy.
• FILLETING
  The protecting of a joint, as between roof and parapet wall, with mortar, or cement, where flashing is employed in better work. 2. The material of which fillets are made; also, fillets, collectively.
• FILLER
  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.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• JOHNSONIANISM
  A manner of acting or of writing peculiar to, or characteristic of, Dr. Johnson.
• JOHNSONESE
  The literary style of Dr. Samuel Johnson, or one formed in imitation of it; an inflated, stilted, or pompous style, affecting classical words. E. Everett.
• FILBERT
  The fruit of the Corylus Avellana or hazel. It is an oval nut, containing a kernel that has a mild, farinaceous, oily taste, agreeable to the palate. Note: In England filberts are usually large hazelnuts, especially the nuts from selected
• FILLISTER
  1. The rabbet on the outer edge of a sash bar to hold the glass and the putty. Knight. 2. A plane for making a rabbet. Fillister screw had, a short cylindrical screw head, having a convex top.
• FILANDERS
  A disease in hawks, characterized by the presence of small threadlike worms, also of filaments of coagulated blood, from the rupture of a vein; -- called also backworm. Sir T. Browne.
• FILIFORM
  Having the shape of a thread or filament; as, the filiform papillæ of the tongue; a filiform style or peduncle. See Illust. of AntennÆ.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• FILANDER
  A species of kangaroo , inhabiting New Guinea.
• FILL
  One of the thills or shafts of a carriage. Mortimer. Fill horse, a thill horse. Shak.
• KAFILAH
  See CAFILA
• PROFILE
  A human head represented sidewise, or in a side view; the side face or half face. A section of any member, made at right angles with its main lines, showing the exact shape of moldings and the like. A drawing exhibiting a vertical section of the
• CAFFILA
  See CAFILA
• PROFILING
  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.
• INFILTRATE
  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.
• CAFILA; CAFILEH
  A caravan of travelers; a military supply train or government caravan; a string of pack horses.
• DEFILADE
  To raise, as a rampart, so as to shelter interior works commanded from some higher point.
• INFILTER
  To filter or sift in.
• PURFILE
  A sort of ancient trimming of tinsel and thread for women's gowns; -- called also bobbinwork. Piers Plowman.
• INFILTRATIVE
  Of or pertaining to infiltration. Kane.