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Webster 1913 Edition

Fillet

Fil′let

,
Noun.
[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 encircle the hair of the head.
A belt her waist, a
fillet
binds her hair.
Pope.
2.
(Cooking)
A piece of lean meat without bone; sometimes, a long strip rolled together and tied.
☞ A fillet of beef is the under side of the sirlom; also called tenderloin. A fillet of veal or mutton is the fleshy part of the thigh. A fillet of fish is a slice of flat fish without bone. “Fillet of a fenny snake.”
Shak.
3.
A thin strip or ribbon; esp.:
(a)
A strip of metal from which coins are punched.
(b)
A strip of card clothing.
(c)
A thin projecting band or strip.
4.
(Mach.)
A concave filling in of a reëntrant angle where two surfaces meet, forming a rounded corner.
5.
(Arch.)
A narrow flat member; especially, a flat molding separating other moldings; a reglet; also, the space between two flutings in a shaft. See Illust. of
Base
, and
Column
.
6.
(Her.)
An ordinary equaling in breadth one fourth of the chief, to the lowest portion of which it corresponds in position.
7.
(Mech.)
The thread of a screw.
8.
A border of broad or narrow lines of color or gilt.
9.
The raised molding about the muzzle of a gun.
10.
Any scantling smaller than a batten.
11.
(Anat.)
A fascia; a band of fibers; applied esp. to certain bands of white matter in the brain.
12.
(Man.)
The loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests.
Arris fillet
.
See under
Arris
.

Fil′let

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Filleted
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Filleting
.]
To bind, furnish, or adorn with a fillet.

Webster 1828 Edition

Fillet

FIL'LET

,
Noun.
[L. filum.]
1.
A little band to tie about the hair of the head.
A belt her waist, a fillet binds her hair.
2.
The fleshy part of the thigh; applied to veal; as a fillet of veal.
3.
Meat rolled together and tied round.
4.
In architecture, a little square member or ornament used in divers places, but generally as a corona over a greater molding; called also listel.
5.
In heraldry, a kind of orle or bordure, containing only the third or fourth part of the breadth of the common bordure. it runs quite round near the edge, as a lace over a cloke.
6.
Among painters and gilders, a little rule or reglet of leaf-gold, drawn over certain moldings, or on the edges of frames, pannels, &c., especially when painted white, by way of enrichment.
7.
In the manege, the loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests.

FIL'LET

,
Verb.
T.
1.
to bind with a fillet or little band.
2.
To adorn with an astragal. Ex. 38.

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