filemot, philemot

[A corruption of Fr. feuille - morte a dead leaf.] A brown or yellowish brown color; the color of a faded leaf. (FEUILLEMORT.] fil-er, s. [Eng. file (2), v.; -er.] One who files; one who uses a file in cutting and polishing metals, . files, s. pl. [FILE (2), 8.] A familiar term among the peasantry of the South of England for the striated and tuberculated spines of Cidaris. *fil-et, s . [FILLET.] *file'-wört, s. [Eng. file , and wort .] Bot.: A plant, Filago minima .