fil1cales

pl. [From Latin filix (gen it. filicis )=a fern, and masc. & fem. pl. suff. -ales.] Bot.: An alliance of Acrogens, containing the 1. To dirty, to defile, to pollute; to disgrace, to Ferns (q.v.). degrade, to sully. "A word that I abhor to file my lips with." Tourneur: Revenger's Tragedie. II. Scots Law : 1. To calumniate; to accuse. "If they had been permitted, were ready to file , by their delation, sundry gentlewomen, and others of fashion."Fountain hall: Decisions, i. 14. 2. To find guilty; to pronounce guilty. "Gif anie man is fuled or condemned of that crime, his judgement and punishment of his life and limme depends only vpon the Kinges benefite and gude will."-Rey. Maj ., B. iv., c. 1, § 5.