The act of giving figure or determinate form; determination to a certain form.

Representing by a figure, or by resemblance; typical; representative.

To make a figure; to be distinguished or conspicious; as, the envoy figured at court.

Adorned with figures; marked with figures; as, figured muslin.

The figure, statue, or bust, on the prow of a ship.

Represented by figure or delineation.

A very small figure, whether human or of an animal; especially, one in terra cotta or the like; -- distinguished from statuette, which is applied to small figures in bronze, marble, etc.

One who uses or interprets figurative expressions.

A genus of herbaceous plants (Scrophularia), mostly found in the north temperate zones. See Brownwort.

Of or pertaining to the Fiji islands or their inhabitants. A native of the Fiji islands.

See Fyke.

imp. of Fall, v. i. Fell.

Composed of threads.

A former officer in the English Court of Common Pleas; -- so called because he filed the writs on which he made out process.

A thread or threadlike object or appendage; a fiber; the threadlike part of the stamen supporting the anther.

Having the character of, or formed by, a filament.

Like a filament.

Like a thread; consisting of threads or filaments.

A species of kangaroo (Macropus Brunii), inhabiting New Guinea.

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.

Of or pertaining to a thread or line; characterized by threads stretched across the field of view; as, a filar microscope; a filar micrometer.

a former genus comprised of certain nematodes, now classed as belonging to several genera within the family Onchocercidae. See Onchocerca and Guinea worm.

Of, pertaining to, or caused by, filari/ and allied parasitic worms.

the presence of filariae within the body of an organism; infection with filariae. It is mostly found in tropical and subtropical regions.

of or pertaining to family Filariidae.

a natural family consisting of threadlike roundworms, called filariae.

Vegetable fiber, as jute or ramie, prepared for manufacture.

A machine for forming threads.

A drawing out into threads; hence, the reeling of silk from cocoons.

The fruit of the Corylus Avellana or Corylus maxima, also called the hazel; the hazelnut. It is an oval nut, containing a kernel that has a mild, farinaceous, oily taste, agreeable to the palate.

To steal or take privily (commonly, that which is of little value); to pilfer.

One who filches; a thief.

By pilfering or petty stealing.

To make foul; to defile.

Any plectognath fish of the genera Monacanthus, Alutera, balistes, and allied genera; -- so called on account of the roughly granulated skin, which is sometimes used in place of sandpaper.

See Feullemort.

One who works with a file.

Of or pertaining to a son or daughter; becoming to a child in relation to his parents; as, filial obedience.

In a filial manner.

To adopt as son or daughter; to establish filiation between.

The relationship of a son or child to a parent, esp. to a father.

Same as Kilt.

To act as a filibuster, or military freebooter.

The characteristics or practices of a filibuster.

Belonging to the Filices, r ferns.

Pertaining to, or derived from, ferns; as, filicic acid.

The act of murdering a son or a daughter; also, parent who commits such a murder.

Shaped like a fern or like the parts of a fern leaf.

A fernlike plant.

The relation of a son to a father; sonship; -- the correlative of paternity.

Producing threads.

Having the shape of a thread or filament; as, the filiform papill/ of the tongue; a filiform style or peduncle. See Illust. of Antenn/.

Filigree.

See Filigreed.

Relating to, composed of, or resembling, work in filigree; as, a filigree basket. Hence: Fanciful; unsubstantial; merely decorative.

Adorned with filigree.

A fragment or particle rubbed off by the act of filing; as, iron filings.

The Latin for, /and from the Son,/ equivalent to et filio, inserted by the third council of Toledo (a. d. 589) in the clause qui ex Patre procedit (who proceedeth from the Father) of the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed (a. d. 381), which makes a creed state that the Holy Ghost proceeds from the Son as well as from the Father. Hence, the doctrine itself (not admitted by the Eastern Church).

Suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; -- said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootlets.

A native or inhabitant of the Philippine Islands, specif. one of Spanish descent or of mixed blood.

variant spelling of filigree.

a young unmarried woman.

containing as much or as many as is possible or normal; as, filled to overflowing. Opposite of empty.

A thill horse.

To bind, furnish, or adorn with a fillet.

The protecting of a joint, as between roof and parapet wall, with mortar, or cement, where flashing is employed in better work.

A kilt. See Filibeg.

See Filibuster.

That which is used to fill a cavity or any empty space, or to supply a deficiency; as, filling for a cavity in a tooth, a depression in a roadbed, the space between exterior and interior walls of masonry, the pores of open-grained wood, the space between the outer and inner planks of a vessel, etc.

A jerk of the finger forced suddenly from the thumb; a smart blow.

See Philopena.

The rabbet on the outer edge of a sash bar to hold the glass and the putty.

A female foal or colt; a young mare. Cf. Colt, Foal.

To cover with a thin skin or pellicle.

readily adaptable to motion picture form; -- of books, plays, and other works of literature.

recorded on film.

State of being filmy.

to make films; be a film maker.

Composed of film or films.

Having the structure of a filoplume.

A hairlike feather; a father with a slender scape and without a web in most or all of its length.

Terminating in a threadlike process.

A kind of silk thread less glossy than floss, and spun from coarser material. It is much used in embroidery instead of floss.

Son; -- sometimes used after a French proper name to distinguish a son from his father, as, Alexandre Dumas, fils.

Same as Philter.

having a tip designed to filter the smoke; -- of a cigarette or cigar; as, filter-tipped cigarettes.

Foul matter; anything that soils or defiles; dirt; nastiness.

In a filthy manner; foully.

The state of being filthy.

Defiled with filth, whether material or moral; nasty; dirty; polluted; foul; impure; obscene.

That which has been filtered; the liquid which has passed through the filter in the process of filtration. Contrasted with retentate, the material remaining on the filter.

The act or process of filtering; the mechanical separation of a liquid from the undissolved particles floating in it.

Light summer hemp, that bears no seed.

A fringe, or fringed border. A band of white matter bordering the hippocampus in the brain.

To hem; to fringe.

Having a fringed border; fimbriate.

Fringed; jagged; fimbriate.

An organ of a fish, consisting of a membrane supported by rays, or little bony or cartilaginous ossicles, and serving to balance and propel it in the water.

Having palmate feet. Having lobate toes, as the coot and grebe.

Having toes connected by a membrane; palmiped; palmated; also, lobate.

Liable or subject to a fine; as, a finable person or offense.

to achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods.

Pertaining to the end or conclusion; last; terminating; ultimate; as, the final day of a school term.

Close; termination The last movement of a symphony, sonata, concerto, or any instrumental composition. The last composition performed in any act of an opera. The closing part, piece, or scene in any public performance or exhibition.

same as finalization.

Any of the players who meet in the final round of a tournament in which the losers in any round do not play again.

The state of being final, finished, or complete; a final or conclusive arrangement; a settlement.

the act of finalizing.

to put the last touches on; put into final form.

At the end or conclusion; ultimately; lastly; as, the contest was long, but the Romans finally conquered.

To conduct the finances of; to provide for, and manage, the capital for; to financier.

assets in the form of money.

Pertaining to finance.

A financier.

In a financial manner.

To conduct financial operations.

See Finery.

Conclusive; decisive; definitive; final.

Any whale of the genera Sibbaldius, Bal/noptera, and allied genera, of the family Bal/nopterid/, characterized by a prominent fin on the back. The common finbacks of the New England coast are Sibbaldius tectirostris and S. tuberosus.

A small singing bird of many genera and species, belonging to the family Fringillid/.