filler (1)

[Eng. fill, v.; -er.] 1. One who fills or makes anything full. "They have six diggers to four fillers , so as to keep the fillers always at work." -Mortimer: Husbandry . 2. Anything which serves to fill up a vacancy gap. "'Tis a mere filler , to stop a vacancy in the hexameter, and connect the preface to the work of Virgil."-Dryden. Virgil's Æneid. (Dedic.) fill-er (2), s . [Eng. fill (2), s.; -er.] The horse which goes in the shafts; a fill-horse or thill-horse. fil-lět, *fel-ett, *fil-et, *fil-ete, s . [Fr. filet , dim in. of fil =a thread; Lat. filum ; Sp. filete ; Ital. filet to.] I. Ordinary Language: 1. A band of metal, linen, or ribbon worn round the head. "A golden fillet binds his awful brows." Dryden: Virgil's Eneid, iv. 213. 2. The fleshy part of the thigh; applied most com. monly to veal. "Take filetes of porke, and half hom rost."- Liber Cure Cocorum, p. 31. 3. Portions of meat or fish removed from the bone and served either flat or rolled together and tied round. The term is specially applied to the undercut of the sirloin of beef, served whole or cut into steaks, and to slices of flat-fish removed from the bone. IMG:content-1624.jpg:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1625.jpg:[merged small][merged small][graphic][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small] 2. Architecture : (1) A small flat ELLETS face or band used principally between moldings to separate them from each other in cla ical architecture: in the Gothic, Early English, or Deco styles of Fillet. The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia (2) The projection between the flutes of a column. 3. Bookbinding : A rolling tool which has a plain line, lines, or band; differing in this respect from the ornamental rolls. 4. Carding : A strip of card-cloth. A strip of leather furnished with the bent wire teeth peculiar to carding-engines. 5. Carpentry: (1) A square molding, frequently forming an upper finish or corona; a band or listel. (2) A strip nailed to a wall or partition to support a shelf. (3) A stop for room or closet doors to close against. A strip inserted into the angle formed by two boards or surfaces. 6. Dairy : A perforated curb to confine the curds in making cheese. 7. Die-sinking : A ribbon of metal of gauged proportions fed to the machine which punches out the planchets for coining. 8. Gilding : A band of gold-leaf on a picture-frame or elsewhere. 9. Her.: A kind of orb or bordure, containing only the third or fourth part of the breadth of the common bordure. It runs quite round near the edge, as the lace over a cloak. It is supposed to be drawn inward, and is of a different color from that of the field. 10. Mech .: The thread of a screw. Fillet. 11. Manége : The loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests. 12. Ordnance : A ring on the muzzle or cascabel of a gun. 13. Printing: A rule with broad or broad and narrow lines, principally used as a border. IMG:content-1627.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1628.png:[blocks in formation] filling-post, s. Arch.: A middle post in a wooden frame. filling-timbers, s. pl. (Ornith. and Bot .: Smith .)