a. See Affiliated. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Affiliation. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ OF. afiler, F. affiler, to sharpen; a (L. ad) + fil thread, edge. ] To polish. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being affiliated to or on, or connected with in origin. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Affiliated p. pr. & vb. n. Affiliating ] [ LL. adfiliare, affiliare, to adopt as son; ad + filius son: cf. F. affilier. ] 1. To adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally. [ 1913 Webster ]

Is the soul affiliated to God, or is it estranged and in rebellion? I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To fix the paternity of; -- said of an illegitimate child; as, to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to. [ 1913 Webster ]

How do these facts tend to affiliate the faculty of hearing upon the aboriginal vegetative processes? H. Spencer. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To attach (to) or unite (with); to receive into a society as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc.; -- followed by to or with. [ 1913 Webster ]

Affiliated societies, societies connected with a central society, or with each other. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To connect or associate one's self; -- followed by with; as, they affiliate with no party. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. 1 being joined in close association affiliated clubs
Syn. -- attached, connected [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. affiliation, LL. affiliatio. ] 1. Adoption; association or reception as a member in or of the same family or society. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) The establishment or ascertaining of parentage; the assignment of a child, as a bastard, to its father; filiation. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Connection in the way of descent. H. Spencer. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. (Bot.) The pin grass (Erodium cicutarium), a weed in California. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ ‖ } n. [ Mex. Sp., fr. Sp. alfiler pin. ] Same as Alfilaria. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + filar. ] Two-threaded; involving the use of two threads; as, bifilar suspension; a bifilar balance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bifilar micrometer (often called
a bifilar), an instrument form measuring minute distances or angles by means of two very minute threads (usually spider lines), one of which, at least, is movable; -- more commonly called a filar micrometer. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Ar. ] See Cafila. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖‖ } n. [ Ar. ] A caravan of travelers; a military supply train or government caravan; a string of pack horses. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A filter, as for sugar, in which a cylinder with a porous or foraminous periphery is rapidly rotated so as to drive off liquid by centrifugal action. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

adv. Clownishly; surlily. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. photographic film several hundred feet long and wound on a spool, used in a movie camera.
Syn. -- motion-picture film, movie film. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. & t. to register as a candidate for more than one political party in the same election. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. an order of fossil gymnospermous trees or climbing plants from the Devonian: seed ferns.
Syn. -- order Cycadofilicales, Lyginopteridales, order Lyginopteridales. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Defiladed; p. pr. & vb. n. Defilading. ] [ Cf. F. défiler to defile, and défilade act of defiling. See 1st Defile. ] (Mil.) To raise, as a rampart, so as to shelter interior works commanded from some higher point. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mil.) The art or act of determining the directions and heights of the lines of rampart with reference to the protection of the interior from exposure to an enemy's fire from any point within range, or from any works which may be erected. Farrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Defiled p. pr. & vb. n. Defiling. ] [ F. défiler; pref. dé-, for des- (L. dis-) + file a row or line. See File a row. ] To march off in a line, file by file; to file off. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. (Mil.) Same as Defilade. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. défilé, fr. défiler to defile. ] 1. Any narrow passage or gorge in which troops can march only in a file, or with a narrow front; a long, narrow pass between hills, rocks, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mil.) The act of defilading a fortress, or of raising the exterior works in order to protect the interior. See Defilade. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ OE. defoulen, -foilen, to tread down, OF. defouler; de- + fouler to trample (see Full, v. t.), and OE. defoulen to foul (influenced in form by the older verb defoilen). See File to defile, Foul, Defoul. ] 1. To make foul or impure; to make filthy; to dirty; to befoul; to pollute. [ 1913 Webster ]

They that touch pitch will be defiled. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To soil or sully; to tarnish, as reputation; to taint. [ 1913 Webster ]

He is . . . among the greatest prelates of this age, however his character may be defiled by . . . dirty hands. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To injure in purity of character; to corrupt. [ 1913 Webster ]

Defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt. Ezek. xx. 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To corrupt the chastity of; to debauch; to violate; to rape. [ 1913 Webster ]

The husband murder'd and the wife defiled. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To make ceremonially unclean; to pollute. [ 1913 Webster ]

That which dieth of itself, or is torn with beasts, he shall not eat to defile therewith. Lev. xxii. 8. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. morally blemished. [ archaic ]
Syn. -- maculate. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. (Religion) ritually unclean. Opposite of clean.
Syn. -- unclean, impure. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. défilement. See Defile ] (Mil.) The protection of the interior walls of a fortification from an enfilading fire, as by covering them, or by a high parapet on the exposed side. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From 3d Defile. ] The act of defiling, or state of being defiled, whether physically or morally; pollution; foulness; dirtiness; uncleanness. [ 1913 Webster ]

Defilements of the flesh. Hopkins. [ 1913 Webster ]

The chaste can not rake into such filth without danger of defilement. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who defiles; one who corrupts or violates; that which pollutes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. de- + filius son. ] Abstraction of a child from its parents. Lamb. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The process of smooth filing by working the file sidewise instead of lengthwise. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. enfiler to thread, go trough a street or square, rake with shot; pref. en- (L. in) + fil thread. See File a row. ] 1. A line or straight passage, or the position of that which lies in a straight line. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mil.) A firing in the direction of the length of a trench, or a line of parapet or troops, etc.; a raking fire. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Enfiladed; p. pr. & vb. n. Enfilading. ] (Mil.) To pierce, scour, or rake with shot in the direction of the length of, as a work, or a line of troops. Campbell. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. a. [ F. enfiler to pierce, thread. ] (Her.) Having some object, as the head of a man or beast, impaled upon it; as, a sword which is said to be “enfiled of” the thing which it pierces. [ 1913 Webster ]

obs. imp. of Fall, v. i. Fell. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. filum thread. ] Composed of threads. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. filace a file, or thread, on which the records of the courts of justice were strung, F. filasse tow of flax or hemp, fr. L. filum thread. ] (Eng. Law) A former officer in the English Court of Common Pleas; -- so called because he filed the writs on which he made out process. [ Obs. ] Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. filament, fr. L. filum thread. See File a row. ] A thread or threadlike object or appendage; a fiber; esp. (Bot.), the threadlike part of the stamen supporting the anther. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the character of, or formed by, a filament. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Filament + -oid. ] Like a filament. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. filamenteux. ] Like a thread; consisting of threads or filaments. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A species of kangaroo (Macropus Brunii), inhabiting New Guinea. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ F. filandres, fr. L. filum thread. ] (Falconry) 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. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. filum a thread. ] Of or pertaining to a thread or line; characterized by threads stretched across the field of view; as, a filar microscope; a filar micrometer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. filariae. [ NL., fr. L. filum a thread. ] (Zool.) a small, slender nematode worm of the family Onchocercidae (Filariidae) of many species, parasitic when adult in various animals, including man. They may live within the blood, or in other bodily fluids, or within tissues or cavities of the body. Infection with such organisms may be transmitted by blood-sucking arthropods. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. L. filum a thread. ] (Zool.) a former genus comprised of certain nematodes, now classed as belonging to several genera within the family Onchocercidae. See Onchocerca and Guinea worm. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

a. 1. (Zool. & Med.) Of, pertaining to, or caused by, filariæ and allied parasitic worms. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. Straight, as if in a line; as, the filarial flight of birds. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ NL. ] 1. (Zool., Med.) the presence of filariae within the body of an organism; infection with filariae. It is mostly found in tropical and subtropical regions. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. PJC ]

2. (Med.) a disease caused by nematodes in the blood or tissues of the body causing blockage of lymphatic vessels. Death of the adult worms may lead to inflammation and permanent fibrosis; the condition may lead to serious symptoms, such as elephantiasis or blindness. See river blindness [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

adj. of or pertaining to family Filariidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a natural family consisting of threadlike roundworms, called filariae.
Syn. -- family Filariidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F., fr. fil thread, L. filum. ] Vegetable fiber, as jute or ramie, prepared for manufacture. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]