Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film.
Shak.
Film, v. t. To cover with a thin skin or pellicle.
It will but skin and film the ulcerous place.
Shak.
Film"i*ness (?), n. State of being filmy.
Film"y (?), a. Composed of film or films.
Whose filmy cord should bind the struggling fly.
Dryden.
Fil`o*plu*ma"ceous (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Having the structure of a filoplume.
Fil"o*plume (?), n. [L. filum a thread &?; pluma a soft feather.]
(Zoˆl.) A hairlike feather; a father with a slender scape and without a
web in most or all of its length.
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Fi"lose` (?), a. [L. filum a thread.] Terminating in a threadlike
process.
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 cloth, paper, sand, or charcoal,
through which water or other liquid may passed to cleanse it from the
solid or impure matter held in suspension; a chamber or device
containing such substance; a strainer; also, a similar device for
purifying air.
Filter bed, a pond, the bottom of which is a filter composed of sand
gravel. -- Filter gallery, an underground gallery or tunnel, alongside
of a stream, to collect the water that filters through the intervening
sand and gravel; -- called also infiltration gallery.
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 causing it to pass through a
filter.
Filtering paper, or Filter paper, a porous unsized paper, for
filtering.
Fil"ter, v. i. To pass through a filter; to percolate.
Fil"ter, n. Same as Philter.
Filth (?), n. [OE. filthe, fule, AS. f&?;l, fr. fl foul; akin to OHG.
flida. See Foul, and cf. File.] 1. Foul matter; anything that soils or
defiles; dirt; nastiness.
2. Anything that sullies or defiles the moral character; corruption;
pollution.
To purify the soul from the dross and filth of sensual delights.
Tillotson.
Filth disease (Med.), a disease supposed to be due to pollution of the
soil or water.
Filth"i*ly (?), adv. In a filthy manner; foully.
Filth"i*ness, n. 1. The state of being filthy.
Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and
spirit.