2. To snap; to project quickly.
The use of the elastic switch to fillip small missiles with.
Tylor. Fillip
(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 screw head, having a convex top.
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.
Shak. 2. A lively, spirited young girl. [Colloq.] Addison.
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; hence, any thin, slight covering.
He from thick films shall purge the visual ray.
Pope. 2. A slender thread, as that of a cobweb.
Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film.
Shak. Film
(Film), v. t. To cover with a thin skin or pellicle.
It will but skin and film the ulcerous place.
Shak. 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.
