filletn.1
/ˈfɪlᵻt/, U.S. /ˈfɪlᵻt/ (in sense 6 also)Brit. /ˈfɪleɪ/, U.S. /fɪˈleɪ/, /ˈfɪleɪ/ 1. A head-band.attributive.1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 30 Ivy for my fillet band, Blinding dogwood in my hand.† b. (See quot. 1688) ? nonce use (transl. Greek διάδημα).
a. A ribbon, string, or narrow band of any material used for binding the hair, or worn round the head to keep the headdress in position, or simply for ornament.Also figurative, esp. with reference to the vitta with which in classical antiquity the heads of sacrificial victims were adorned, or to the ‘snood’ formerly worn as a badge of maidenhood.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > head- or hair-band
snoodc725
norseleOE
hair-lacea1300
filleta1327
tressurea1350
hair-bandc1440
headbanda1522
forehead-cloth1561
fascia1587
filleting1648
forehead-band1809
taenia1850
bandlet1883
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > accessories worn in the hair > [noun] > band
filleta1327
crown1340
braid1576
bandeau1706
scrunchie1989
a1327 Pol. Songs (Camden) 154 Habbe he a fauce filet, he halt hire hed heȝe.
a1400–50 Alexander 4338 Oure paramours vs to plese ne pride þaim bewenes, Nouthire ffurrers, filetts, ne frengs.
1467 T. Daverse in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 379 She wuld fayne haue a new felet.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 200/1 Fyllet for a maydens heed, fronteau.
1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Dj Al..of the kinges bande, haue a silken fyllet of scarlet colour, tied about their heades.
1626 T. Hawkins tr. N. Caussin Holy Court I. 93 Euen those, which haue yet the fillet of shamefastnesse vpon theyr browes, suffer themselues..to runne, after the torrent of Examples.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 91 Ye sacred Muses..Whose Priest I am, whose holy Fillets wear. View more context for this quotation
1713 A. Pope Windsor-Forest 8 A Belt her Waste, a Fillet binds her Hair.
1795 E. Burke Let. to W. Elliot in Wks. (1842) II. 241 These priests..begin by crowning me with their flowers and their fillets.
1828 F. D. Hemans Lady of Castle in Records of Woman (ed. 2) 199 Those long fair tresses..Bursting their fillet.
1879 J. Beerbohm Wanderings in Patagonia vi. 91 Their hair is kept from falling over their faces by a fillet tied round the head.
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society > authority > office > symbol of office or authority > regalia > [noun] > band worn round head
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diadem1579
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1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 3/1 Of a Crown, the Diadem, or Royal Fillet, is that part which compasseth the head.
c. In the harness of a horse (see quot. 1607).
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > halter or bridle > parts of
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head1756
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throat strap1803
frontlet1805
throat-lash1805
cheekstrap1834
brow-band1844
nosepiece1865
shank1879
1607 G. Markham Cavelarice ii. 12 Cauezan, or any other binding fillet ouer the nose of the horse.
2. in extended use.1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) I. 7 Yellow antheræ of flowers, suspended by fillets of white.
a. A strip of any material suitable for binding; a band or bandage; †the edging or list of cloth. Also: †a strip of material used for decoration (obsolete).
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > a bond, tie, or fastening > [noun] > a band or binding > strip of material
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bandage1766
1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 22339 I haue knyues, phyllettys, callys.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 259 The brims & borders of the sea, called for the resemblance of fillets or lists in a cloth, Tæniæ.
1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island x. xxxvii. 144 Her daintie breasts, like to an Aprill rose From green-silk fillets yet not all unbound.
1734 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. I. 48 The body was swathed in lawn fillets.
1769 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. House-keeper xiii. 277 When it is almost cold, bind it up with a fresh Fillet.
1834 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last Days of Pompeii I. i. ii. 23 She will bind the door-posts of her husband with golden fillets.
1865 D. Livingstone & C. Livingstone Narr. Exped. Zambesi v. 114 Fillets of the inner bark of a tree wound spirally round each curl.
b. A surgical bandage.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > bandage > [noun]
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fasciation1658
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flannels1723
fillet1802
sealing1862
1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. viii. 122 The fillet is almost always strapped across [a fracture] for the sake of giving firmness and strength to the bandage.
1819 S. Cooper First Lines Pract. Surg. (ed. 4) I. ii. xxxiv. 560 A band, or fillet, which goes round the head.
c. Obstetrics (see quot. 1884.)
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > obstetrical equipment > [noun]
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cranioclast1860
binder1861
stirrup1936
vacuum extractor1954
birthing stool1956
ventouse1960
1753 N. Torriano Compendium Obstetricii 35 In this Case a Fillet is necessary.
1884 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Fillet..a loop or noose used from very ancient times for the extraction of the head of the child.
3. A thin narrow strip of any material. In many mechanical applications, e.g. in Coining, the ribbon of metal out of which the blanks or planchets are punched; in the Carding-engine, a strip of card-clothing; ‘a perforated curb to confine the curds in making cheese’ (Knight); etc.
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the world > space > shape > condition of being long in relation to breadth > [noun] > long narrow piece
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ribbon1847
1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 15 A fillet of Lead.
1724 J. Swift Prometheus (single sheet) The Mixture [i.e. the metal for Wood's halfpence]..In Fillets roll'd, or cut in Pieces, Appear'd like one continu'd Spec'es.
1779 A. M. Bailey W. Bailey's Advancem. Arts, Manuf., & Commerce II. 14 An iron Fillet [of a plough] six inches and a quarter long; its extreme breadth is two inches and a half, and three sixteenths of an inch thick.
1859 All Year Round 2 July 239/1 Fillets, or ribands of gold [for coining].
1893 Daily News 9 June 5/4 Some of them [coins] perhaps have been cut from the..cracked parts of the fillets.
a. figurative. plural. The ‘threads’ of life.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > [noun] > expectation of life > thread of life
line of lifec1580
filleta1592
file1606
a1592 R. Greene Hist. Orlando Furioso (1594) sig. Ciiiv Seek not..To..slice the slender fillets of my life.
b. In plants: A fibre of the root; a rib or vein of a leaf; the pistil or stamen of a flower.
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the world > plants > part of plant > root > [noun] > rootlet, fibre, or subsidiary root
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taw1615
tapon1641
fibre1656
fang1664
fibril1664
rootlinga1706
lateral root1724
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radicle1793
radicel1819
viver1877
branch-root1884
sprangle1896
thong1927
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 557 All other corne.. haue many small fillets or strings appendant to the roots.
1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Ribbekens die door de bladers loopen, fillets or Sprouts which run through the leaves of Trees or Hearbes.
1730 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum Filet, (with Botanists) is used to signify those threads that are usually found in the middle of flowers, as the Lily, Tulip, &c.
c. The ‘string’ of the tongue. Obsolete.
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the world > life > the body > structural parts > cartilage > cartilage of specific parts > [noun] > of neck or throat
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shield-gristle1615
throat stopper1661
guggle1680
throat flap1683
ring cartilage1690
fillet1693
thyroid cartilage1726
thyroid1840
arytenoid1849
shield-cartilage1881
triticeous cartilage or nodule1891
the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > [noun] > tongue > specific part
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fillet1693
fungiform papilla1779
1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xxxiv. 287 To have the Fillet of her Tongue untied.
1735 W. Pardon Dyche's New Gen. Eng. Dict. Fillet,..in Anatomy, 'tis the Extremity of the Ligament under the Tongue, called the Frenum.
5. A band of fibre, whether muscle or nerve; a flap of flesh:† a. A muscle. Obsolete.† c. A lobe of the liver. Cf. fibre n. 1a. Obsolete.† e. (See quot.; apparently a misunderstanding.)
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the world > life > the body > structural parts > muscle > [noun]
mouseOE
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fillet1541
musculage1547
musculus1565
lizard1574
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muscling1766
thews1817
myon1888
1541 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) 85 b Excessive multitude of humors..do extende the muscules or fyllettes.
1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. i. f. 1v/2 A muscle is a membre compounde of synnowes, ligamentes, and fleshie fyllettes or as it were thredes, fylled wt fleshe.
b. (See quots.)
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the world > life > the body > nervous system > substance of nervous system > [noun] > nerve fibre > band or collection of
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nerve fibril1851
lemniscus1857
nerve cord1864
nerve bundle1865
nerve branch1874
nerve plexus1877
nerve tract1877
neuropilema1891
neuropil1894
fibre tract1904
1840 G. V. Ellis Demonstr. Anat. 27 A band of fibres is continued from its nucleus to the fibres of the lateral part of the medulla on which it lies; this band is the fillet of Riel.
1884 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Fillet, a tract of obliquely-curved white nerve-fibres seen on the surface of the pons Varolii, and occupying a triangular area at the side of the tegmentum.
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the world > life > the body > secretory organs > gland > specific glands > [noun] > liver > lobe of
lapc1000
liver lapOE
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mantle?c1425
boss?1541
lobe?1541
lop1601
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lappet1609
fin1615
lobbet1662
acinus1701
spigelian lobe1811
Riedel's lobe1897
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 516 The..fillets of the liuer of a Mouse.
a1656 J. Ussher Ann. World (1658) vi. 279 The liver of it had no filets.
1702 R. L'Estrange tr. Josephus Jewish Antiq. iii. ix, in Wks. 70 The Fillets of the Liver.
d. plural the fillets n. the loins (of an animal, rarely of a man).
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > side > [noun] > loin or flank
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?a1400 Morte Arth. 1158 His [Arthur's] flawnke and his feletez, and his faire sydez.
1483 Cath. Angl. 130 A Felett of þe bakke, pala.
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxxiv The nyne properties of an hare..the nynte to haue two good filettes.
1611 G. Markham Countrey Contentm. (1649) 6 His [the hound's] fillets would be thick and great.
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια ii. 65 The Loynes..the fleshy parts on either side are called in Greeke ψόα, Pulpa á palpando, in imitation whereof wee call it the Fillet, as it were Feele it.
1740 H. Bracken Farriery Improv'd (ed. 2) II. i. 27 The Reins of a Horse, or what we commonly stile the Fillets.
1790 R. Burns Let. 9 Feb. (2003) II. 12 She had been quite strained in the fillets beyond cure.
1892 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Fillets, the hollow between a horse's ribs and haunch bones.
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1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 154/1 The Fillets, are the fore-parts of the shoulders next the Breast.
Whence 1721 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict.
6. Cookery. attributive.1841 J. T. J. Hewlett Parish Clerk I. 125 Firmly united by a fillet-of-veal skewer.
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a. A fleshy portion of meat near the loins or ribs of an animal, easily detachable; the ‘undercut’ of a sirloin or rump of beef; a similar fleshy part in the body of a fowl.
b. One of the thick slices into which a fish is easily divided; also, a thick slice of meat, tongue, etc.The fillet of beef is sometimes cooked like the fillet of veal (sense 6c): see quot. 1747. In the above senses sometimes with French spelling: see filet n.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > cut or piece of meat > [noun] > slice or strip of meat
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scallop1723
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > cuts or parts of fish
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shark's fin1933
toro1971
c1430 Two Cookery-bks. 49 Take lardes of Venysoun..or of a Bere, & kerue hem þinne as Fylettes of Porke.
a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 31 Take filetes of porke and half hom rost.
a1655 T. T. de Mayerne Archimagirus Anglo-Gallicus (1658) xiii. 7 The Phillets..of Beef.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Pike A Pike Filets fry'd.
1736 Compl. Family-piece i. ii. 131 Cut a Fillet of Veal into three or 4 Fillets.
1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery ii. 21 A Fillet of Beef..is the Inside of the Surloin: You must carefully cut it all out from the Bone..roll it up tight; tye it with a Packthread.
1824 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XV lxvi. 38 Young Partridge' fillets.
1846 A. Soyer Gastron. Regenerator 166 A small fillet of tongue.
1846 A. Soyer Gastron. Regenerator 266 Take out the fillet from beneath a rump of beef.
1846 A. Soyer Gastron. Regenerator 329 Carefully skin and bone the breast [of a turkey] without separating the fillets.
1846 A. Soyer Gastron. Regenerator 360 Pass a knife down the back bone [of a hare]..keeping it close to the ribs till you have extracted the fillet.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. 130 The filet of a large Ivory one [sea-gull] is a morceau between a spring chicken and our own unsurpassed canvas back.
c. A ‘joint’ consisting of the middle part of a leg of veal, boned, rolled and tied with a string or ‘fillet’; a piece of beef, fish, etc. prepared in a similar manner.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > cut or piece of meat > [noun] > rolled meat
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > rolled up fish
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1700 J. Dryden tr. Homer 1st Bk. Ilias in Fables 213 The rest They cut in Legs and Fillets for the Feast.
1733 H. Fielding Miser (London ed.) iii. iii. 32 A Fillet of Veal roasted.
1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery ix. 93 To Roast a Fillet or Collar of Sturgeon. Take a Piece of fresh Sturgeon..take out the Bones, and cut in Lengths..then begin to roll it up as close as possible..and bind it round with a narrow Fillet.
1769 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. House-keeper iv. 87 Take a Fillet of a Cow Calf, stuff it well.
1834 F. Marryat Jacob Faithful III. i. 5 We dine at half-past three—fillet of veal and bacon—don't be too late for dinner.
7. Any object having the appearance of a fillet or band.
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the world > space > shape > condition of being long in relation to breadth > [noun] > long narrow piece > of a surface > running across or around
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1612 J. Speed Theatre of Empire of Great Brit. i. xvi. 31/1 From a split cloue..a white blewish Flowre shortly springeth; from whence Fillets of Saffron are gathered before the Sunne, and dried.
1696 J. Aubrey Misc. (1721) 35 The two Filots, which cross the greater Circle..were of a pale colour.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 247 Above the moon was a huge volume of deep black cloud, while a very thin fillet crossed the middle of the orb.
1862 J. Tyndall Mountaineering in 1861 vi. 43 We once halted beside a fillet of clear spring water to have a draught.
1863 J. Tyndall Heat (1870) v. §192. 153 Every fillet of mercury freezes the water with which it comes into contact.
8. Architecture (a) A narrow flat band used for the separation of one moulding from another; a fascia. (b) A small band between the flutes of a column.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > other elements > [noun] > fillet
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > moulding > flat band separating mouldings
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > column > [noun] > shaft of column > fluting > fillet
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1379 in J. T. Fowler Memorials Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1888) III. 101 Item fac. filetes et alia necessaria pro clo—— totam sept. 3s.]
1473 Churchwardens' Accts. St. Michael, Cornhill For sconcheons and a felet for the same pewes.
1563 J. Shute First Groundes Archit. sig. Div At the toppe of the pillor lieth Astragalus and his fillet being half so high as the Astragalus.
1639 Contract in Proc. Soc. Antiq. 8 June (1893) 374 The fillitts of the Moulds..fairly guilt.
1789 P. Smyth tr. H. Aldrich Archit. (1818) 108 Reason would place the small fillet of the architrave upon the greater.
1815 M. Elphinstone Acct. Kingdom Caubul Introd. 79 A fillet, formed by stones projecting a very little from the wall.
a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) I. 248 The heaviness of large roll mouldings was often relieved by fillets.
9. Heraldry. (a) A horizontal division of a shield, one-fourth of the depth of a chief n. †(b) A band running round near the edge of a shield, one-third or one-fourth of the breadth of a bordure n. or an orle n. Obsolete. †(c) A band usually drawn from the sinister chief across the shield; usually called fillet of bastardy. Obsolete.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > [noun] > charge of simplest or commonest kind > horizontal division of less depth than chief
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > [noun] > less honourable charge > border near edge of shield > diminutives of
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > [noun] > charge of simplest or commonest kind > band crossing shield diagonally > running from top right to bottom left > of quarter width
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1572 J. Bossewell Wks. Armorie 11 b A Fillet..conteyneth the fower parte of the cheefe.
1634 H. Peacham Gentlemans Exercise (new ed.) iii. 151 A Fillet the fourth of an Orle.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Fillet is also used for an Ordinary drawn, like the Bar, from the sinister Point of the Chief a-cross the Shield; in manner of a Scarf: tho' it is sometimes also seen in the Situation of a band, Fess, Cross, &c.
1756 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. I. 150 Two coats of arms; one, three wheels and a sword; in the other two fillets and six balls.
1766 ‘M. A. Porny’ Elem. Heraldry (1787) 53 The Chief is an Ordinary..Its Diminutive is a fillet, the content of which is not to exceed one fourth of the Chief.
1866 J. E. Cussans Gram. Heraldry 13 The diminutive of this ordinary is the fillet, which is one fourth of the chief.
10. Entomology and Ornithology.
a. A coloured band or stripe.
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the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [noun] > coloured band or stripe
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [noun] > marking or colouring > coloured band or stripe
fillet1668
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1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. 153 Grey plover..which hath a black fillet about the eyes.
b. In a spider: The space between the eyes and the base of the mandibles or cheliceræ.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Aranea > member of (spider) > parts of > space between eyes and chelicerae
fillet1841
1841 E. Newman Familiar Introd. Hist. Insects ii. 175 A fillet is a longitudinal stripe, and a band or fascia is a transverse one.
11. In various technical uses:
a. A raised rim or ridge on any surface, esp. ‘a ring on the muzzle and cascabel of a gun’ (Adm. Smyth); also, the thread of a screw.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > [noun] > that which forms the edge or border > raised
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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > screw > thread
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a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 89 These stones are let into each other with a fillet, fram'd round about the cavity.
1869 C. Boutell tr. J. P. Lacombe Arms & Armour v. 78 The [wings] of these javelin heads are..finished with a circular raised fillet.
1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 132 Fillet, the rounded corner of a groove in a roll.
b. Carpentry. A narrow strip of wood fastened upon any surface to serve as a support, etc. or to strengthen an angle formed by two surfaces.
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the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports > supporting strip of wood or metal
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1781 Ann. Reg. 1779 ii. 101/1 These fillets will..form, as it were, a sort of small ledge on each side of all the joists.
1856 S. C. Brees Terms & Rules Archit. Fillets are also used as stops to room and closet doors.
1881 F. Young Every Man his own Mechanic §1281 Nail or screw a fillet 1 in. square down the centre of the three rafters.
c. Bookbinding. A plain line impressed upon the cover of a book. Also, a rolling tool used for impressing the line.
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society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > bookbinding equipment > [noun] > tools
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society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > ornament or lettering on binding > [noun] > impressed designs > type of
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blocking1846
gold blocking1852
blind-blocking1870
run-up1875
gouge1885
azure1894
goffering1894
blind-stamping1910
1641 Camilton's Disc. in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) V. 111 Curiously bound up in leather or parchment, with fillets of silver or gold.
1880 Printing Trades Jrnl. xxxi. 13 The black outer level is surrounded in turn by a gilt fillet or line.
1890 J. W. Zaehnsdorf Art of Bookbinding (ed. 2) xxiii. 118 Tools and Materials required for Finishing—Rolls, fillets, pallets.
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d. Printing. ‘A rule with broad or broad and narrow lines, principally used as a border’ (Knight).
e. Gilding and Painting. (See quots.)
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > gilding and silvering > [noun] > gilding > type of ornamentation
fillet1730
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > equipment for painting or drawing > [noun] > narrow painted border
fillet1795
1730 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum Fillets, (with Painters) a little rule or riglet of leaf-gold, drawn over certain mouldings, or on the edge of frames, pannels, &c.
1795 W. Felton Treat. Carriages II. (Gloss.) 219 Fillet, a narrow painted border, not exceeding one inch broad.
f. Aeronautics. (See quot. 1950.)
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > fairing at junction of two surfaces
fillet1935
filleting1935
1935 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 39 143 Graphical curves of lift, drag and moment as a function of incidence show comparisons of a low wing and a dropped wing without fillet, with three unsuccessful fillets and with a so-called optimum fillet.
1950 Gloss. Aeronaut. Terms (B.S.I.) i. 14 Fillet, a fairing at the junction of two surfaces to improve the air-flow.
1966 D. Stinton Anat. Aeroplane xi. 206 The remaining shape of an aeroplane is largely non-structural, in that it consists of fairings, cowlings and fillets.
Compounds
attributive and in other combinations.
fillet gutter n. ‘a sloping gutter, with a learboard and fillet thereon, to divert the water’ (Gwilt).
fillet-plane n. a moulding-plane for dressing a fillet or square bead (Knight, 1874).
fillet steak n. a steak cut from the fillet (sense 6a).
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > beef > [noun] > steak or fillet
beef-steak1711
entrecôte1840
filet de bœuf1841
porterhouse steak1842
porterhouse1854
bifteck1861
fillet steak1877
tournedos1877
pope's eye1885
filet mignon1906
minute steak1910
T-bone1916
churrasco1917
Swiss steak1932
strip steak1962
shell steak1968
hanger steak1988
1877 E. S. Dallas Kettner's Bk. of Table 63 Perhaps the most prized of all..the fillet-steak.
1963 N. Marsh Dead Water (1964) 27 We never order fillet steak.
fillet-swift n. (see quot.).
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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Apodiformes > [noun] > family Apodidae > genus Cypseloides or Chaetura
chimney-swallow1775
fillet-swift1861
1861 R. Swinhoe Narr. N. China Campaign 1860 16 The anxious screech of the fillet swift (Cypselus vittatus).
fillet weld n. (see quot. 1965).
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > welding > joint made by > types of
rust joint1839
butt weld1850
jump-weld1864
jump-joint1874
tee-joint1888
spot weld1908
tack weld1919
seam weld1920
fillet weld1929
fusion weld1930
braze1934
projection weld1938
flash weld1959
1929 Engineering 22 Nov. 688/3 The plate is welded..with the final 3/ 8-in. fillet weld.
1965 Welding Terms & Symbols (B.S.I.) i. 51 Fillet weld, a fusion weld, other than a butt, edge or fusion spot weld, which is approximately triangular in transverse cross-section.
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† filletn.2
Obsolete. rare.
(See quot. 1587.)
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the world > food and drink > food > meal > menu > [noun]
billet1577
fillet1587
bill of farea1640
carte1818
menu1830
beef chit1911
me-and-you1932
1587 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. xv. i. 272 Which bill [of dishes] some doo call a memoriall, other a billet, but some a fillet, bicause such are commonlie hanged on the file.
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filletv.
/ˈfɪlᵻt/, U.S. /ˈfɪlᵻt/ (in sense 2 also)Brit. /ˈfɪleɪ/, U.S. /fɪˈleɪ/, /ˈfɪleɪ/ 1. transitive. To bind with or as with a fillet.in extended use.1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 342 The great round roofe..being all enameled and fillited, with the pictures of Saints.
a. To bind or tie up (the hair) with or as with a fillet (see fillet n.1 1); also with up.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > beautify (the hair) [verb (transitive)] > bind
fillet1604
snood1725
1604 T. Dekker Magnificent Entertainm. sig. H3v Her haire..filletted about with snakes.
1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 338 They weare their heare very long, and filleted.
1702 R. L'Estrange tr. Josephus Jewish Antiq. v. x, in Wks. 127 That Experiment..of Filleting, and Twisting up his Locks.
1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 10 513 For whom do you comb, brush, and fillet your tresses?
a1851 D. M. Moir Remembered Beauty in Poet. Wks. (1852) Her golden tresses..Were filleted up with roses.
b. †To bind or tie up, to confine or swathe with a bandage (obsolete). Also Surgery. To bandage (a limb).
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society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > binding or fettering > bind, fetter, or shackle [verb (transitive)]
bind971
to bind hand and footOE
i-bindec1000
umgivea1300
warrok1362
hampera1375
bolt1377
shacklec1440
astrainc1475
estrain1483
to put in irons1533
to tie up1570
manacle1582
beshackle1599
to tie (also lay) neck and heels1618
fillet1633
kilta1689
to tie down1699
oblige1718
hog-tie1886
zip-tie1985
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > bind or tie [verb (transitive)] > bind > bind up or together
forbindc897
bindc1000
to-knita1300
truss1340
louka1393
to knit up1509
to wind up?1533
upbind1590
pinion1608
abligate1615
fillet1633
ligament1659
ligature1716
1633 J. Ford Broken Heart iv. ii. sig. K1v Quicke, fillet both his armes.
1739 J. Sparrow tr. H. F. Le Dran Observ. Surg. xci. 302 Stop the Blood, by..filletting the Arm.
1765 J. Hadley in Philos. Trans. 1764 (Royal Soc.) 54 8 The feet were filleted..being first bound separately, and then wrapped together.
c. gen. To encircle or gird with an ornamental band: also with about.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > ornament [verb (transitive)] > encircle with ornamental band
fillet1603
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > surrounding > surround or lie around [verb (transitive)] > surround with > with ornamental band
fillet1603
1611 Bible (King James) Exod. xxxviii. 28 He made hookes for the pillars, and ouerlaide their chapiters, and filleted them. View more context for this quotation
1785 W. Cowper Task v. 402 A stump..filletted about with hoops of brass.
1860 All Year Round 10 Mar. 459 Amber mouthpieces filleted with ‘sparklers’, as the English cracksman..calls diamonds.
2. Cookery. To divide (a fish) into fillets. Also, to cut the fillets out of (a fowl, etc.).
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of fowls > prepare fowls [verb (transitive)] > clean or disembowel
scalda1400
draw1440
fillet1846
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of seafood > prepare seafood [verb (transitive)] > cut into fillets
fillet1846
1846 A. Soyer Gastron. Regenerator 103 Fillet a brill by passing a good knife from the head to the tail of the fish close to the middle bone [etc.]..Proceed in like manner until you have got off all the meat from the bones.
1846 A. Soyer Gastron. Regenerator 332 Fillet a poularde by splitting the skin up the breast, and passing your knife down the bone, keeping close to the ribs until you have scooped them [i.e. the fillets] out.
3. Building and Carpentry. To close or cover the interstices between boards, slates, etc. with fillets. Cf. fillet n.1 11b.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > surfacing or cladding > clad or cover [verb (transitive)] > fill in gaps
stop1388
beamfill1469
stuff1601
caulk1616
run1657
strike1668
fog1678
chinse1770
sneck1792
darn1801
pug1820
chink1822
grout1838
fillet1843
gallet1851
slush1875
putty1879
spackle1950
1843 Hill in Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 4 ii. 358 In filleting, the under edge of each floor-board is cut away, and a fillet, one inch wide, and three-fourths of an inch thick, is introduced.
4. To mark or ornament with fillets; now chiefly in Bookbinding.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > pattern or design > pattern [verb (transitive)] > stripes, bars, or lines
barc1400
streamc1430
fillet1629
society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > ornament or lettering on binding > [verb (transitive)] > impress design in or on > type of
fillet1629
1629 F. Quarles Argalus & Parthenia iii. 109 Armours of steele, faire filletted with gold.
1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. xxiv. 227 The second edition of the Temple by Zorobabel, as it was new forrelled and filleted with gold by Herod, was a statelier volume then that first of Solomon.
1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 250 His Argyraspides who had their Armour damasked and filletted with Silver.
1747 B. Franklin Let. 1 Sept. in Exper. & Observ. Electr. (1769) 20 A book whose covering is filletted with gold.
Derivatives
ˈfilleter n. one who fillets: senses 2, 4.
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society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > bookbinder > [noun] > worker performing specific process
clasp-man1619
clasp-maker1664
gatherer1683
stitcher1805
book-edge gilder1823
tooler1834
marbler1835
book marbler1843
paper marbler1863
forwarder1870
cropper?1881
flush-binder?1881
inlayer1881
boarder1882
filleter1884
clasper1885
placer1902
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of seafood > [noun] > filleting or gutting > one who
giller1251
gutter1780
filleter1884
1884 Birmingham Daily Post 23 Feb. 3/4 Japanners—Wanted, a good Cash-box Filleter.
1961 Guardian 18 Jan. 9/4 Filleters will tell you that the bobbers..who unload the trawlers have the best job.
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