Filled cheese
Filled cheese. An inferior kind of cheese made from skim milk with a fatty “filling,” such as oleomargarine or lard, to replace the fat removed in the cream.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.
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Filler
Fill″er (?), n. One who, or that which, fills; something used for filling.'T is mere filler, to stop a vacancy in the hexameter. Dryden.They have six diggers to four fillers, so...
Filler (2)
Fill″er, n. [From 1st Fill.] A thill horse.
Filler (3)
Fill″er, n. 1. (Paint.) A composition, as of powdered silica and oil, used to fill the pores and grain of wood before applying paint, varnish, etc.2. (Forestry) Any standing tre...
Fillet
Fil″let (?), n. [OE. filet, felet, fr. OF. filet thread, fillet of meat, dim. of fil a thread, fr. L. filum. See Fille a row.] 1. A little band, especially one intended to encir...
Fillet (2)
Fil″let, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Filleted; p. pr. & vb. n.Filleting.] To bind, furnish, or adorn with a fillet.
Filleting
Fil″let‐ing, n. 1. (Arch.) The protecting of a joint, as between roof and parapet wall, with mortar, or cement, where flashing is employed in better work.2. The material of whic...
Fillibeg
Fil″li‐beg (?), n. A kilt. See Filibeg.
Fillibuster
Fil″li‐bus′ter (?), n. See Filibuster.
Filling
Fill″ing (?), n. 1. 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 ...
Fillip
Fil″lip (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Filliped (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Filliping.] [For filp, flip. Cf. Flippant.] 1. To strike with the nail of the finger, first placed against the ball ...
Fillip (2)
Fil″lip, n. 1. A jerk of the finger forced suddenly from the thumb; a smart blow.2. Something serving to rouse or excite.I take a glass of grog for a filip. Dickens.
Fillipeen
Fil″li‐peen′ (?), n. See Philopena.
Fillister
Fil″lis‐ter (?), n. 1. The rabbet on the outer edge of a sash bar to hold the glass and the putty. Knight.2. A plane for making a rabbet.Fillister screw had, a short cylindrical...
Filly
Fil″ly (?), n.; pl.Fillies (#). [Cf. Icel. fylia, fr. foli foal. See Foal.] 1. (Zoöl.) A female foal or colt; a young mare. Cf. Colt, Foal.Neighing in likeness of a filly foal. ...
Film
Film (?), n. [AS. film skin, fr. fell skin; akin to fylmen membrane, OFries. filmene skin. See Fell skin.] 1. A thin skin; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity; he...
Film (2)
Film, v. t. To cover with a thin skin or pellicle.It will but skin and film the ulcerous place. Shak.
Film (3)
Film (?), n.(Photog.) The layer, usually of gelatin or collodion, containing the sensitive salts of photographic plates; also, the flexible sheet of celluloid or the like on whi...
Filminess
Film″i‐ness (?), n. State of being filmy.
Filmy
Film″y (?), a. Composed of film or films.Whose filmy cord should bind the struggling fly. Dryden.
Filoplumaceous
Fil′o‐plu‐ma″ceous (?), a.(Zoöl.) Having the structure of a filoplume.
Filoplume
Fil″o‐plume (?), n. [L. filum a thread � pluma a soft feather.] (Zoöl.) A hairlike feather; a father with a slender scape and without a web in most or all of its length.
Filose
Fi″lose′ (?), a. [L. filum a thread.] Terminating in a threadlike process.
Filoselle
Fil′o‐selle″ (?), n. A kind of silk thread less glossy than floss, and spun from coarser material. It is much used in embroidery instead of floss.
Fils
‖Fils (?), n. [F., fr. L. filius. See Filial.] Son; — sometimes used after a French proper name to distinguish a son from his father, as, Alexandre Dumas, fils.
Filter
Fil″ter (?), n. [F. filtre, the same word as feutre felt, LL. filtrum, feltrum, felt, fulled wool, this being used for straining liquors. See Feuter.] Any porous substance, as c...
Filter (2)
Fil″ter, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Filtered (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Filtering] [Cf. F. filter. See Filter, n., and cf. Filtrate.] To purify or defecate, as water or other liquid, by causin...