FILE-FISH

the name applied to species of Balistus, which is the type of a family (Balistidze )including marine fishes living in warm and tropical seas. They may attain a length of 3 feet, and are invested in an armour of lozenge-shaped bony plates. By means of their strong front teeth they can break off pieces of coral and crush the sbelis of bivalve molluscs. The first dorsal spine is roughened in front like a file, and the second spine is attached to it in a way suggesting the alternative name of ‘trigger fish.’ FILEY,a watering-place of England, on the coast of the East Riding of Yorkshire, 74miles 8.u. of Scar borough. it has a fine old Norman and Early Hnglish church, which stands on an eminence. The sands are very firm and good, and there are several salt springs. Pop. (1931), 3730. FIL’/I BUSTERS, a naime given to those adventurers, chiefly from the United States, who endeavoured to effect settlements on the Spanish islands and colonies in Central America. The term is probably derived from the Dutch vry buiter, Hngtish freedooter, through the Spanish jfilibustero. Among the most noted of the filibusters was William Walker, who made three expeditions to Nicaragua (1855, 1857, 1860).