Filth"y (?), a. [Compar. Filthier (?); superl. Filthiest.] Defiled with
filth, whether material or moral; nasty; dirty; polluted; foul; impure;
obscene. "In the filthy-mantled pool." Shak.
He which is filthy let him be filthy still.
Rev. xxii. 11.
Syn. -- Nasty; foul; dirty; squalid; unclean; sluttish; gross; vulgar;
licentious. See Nasty.
Fil"trate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Filtrated (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Filtrating. (&?;)] [Cf. LL. filtrare. See Filter.] To filter; to
defecate; as liquid, by straining or percolation. Arbuthnot.
Fil"trate (?), n. That which has been filtered; the liquid which has
passed through the filter in the process of filtration.
Fil*tra"tion (?), n. [Cf. F. filtration.] The act or process of
filtering; the mechanical separation of a liquid from the undissolved
particles floating in it.
{ Fim"ble, n., or Fim"ble hemp` (fm"b'l hmp`). }[Corrupted from female
hemp.] Light summer hemp, that bears no seed.
||Fim"bri*a (?), n.; pl. FimbriÊ (#). [L., fringe. See Fringle.]
||(Anat.) (a) pl. A fringe, or fringed border. (b) A band of white
||matter bordering the hippocampus in the brain. -- Fim"bri*al (#), a.
Fim*bri*ate (?), a. [L. fimbriatus fibrous, fringed, fr. fimbria fiber,
fringe. See Fringe.] Having the edge or extremity bordered by filiform
processes thicker than hairs; fringed; as, the fimbriate petals of the
pink; the fimbriate end of the Fallopian tube.
Fim"bri*ate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fimbriated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Fimbriating.] To hem; to fringe. Fuller.
Fim"bri*a`ted (?), a. 1. Having a fringed border; fimbriate.
2. (Her.) Having a very narrow border of another tincture; -- said esp.
of an ordinary or subordinary.
Fim"bri*cate (?), a. 1. Fringed; jagged; fimbriate.
2. (Zoˆl.) fringed, on one side only, by long, straight hairs, as the
antennÊ of certain insects.
Fin (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Finned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Finning.] [Cf.
Fin of a fish.] To carve or cut up, as a chub.
Fin, n. [See Fine, n.] End; conclusion; object. [Obs.] "She knew eke
the fin of his intent." Chaucer.
Fin, n.[OE. finne, fin, AS. finn; akin to D. vin, G. & Dan. finne, Sw.
fena, L. pinna, penna, a wing, feather. Cf. pen a feather.] 1. (Zoˆl.)
An organ of a fish, consisting of a membrane supported by rays, or
little bony or cartilaginous ossicles, and serving to balance and
propel it in the water.
Fishes move through the water chiefly by means of the caudal fin or
tail, the principal office of the other fins being to balance or direct
the body, though they are also, to a certain extent, employed in
producing motion.
2. (Zoˆl.) A membranous, finlike, swimming organ, as in pteropod and
heteropod mollusks.
3. A finlike organ or attachment; a part of an object or product which
protrudes like a fin, as: (a) The hand. [Slang] (b) (Com.) A blade of
whalebone. [Eng.] McElrath.
(c) (Mech.) A mark or ridge left on a casting at the junction of the
parts of a mold. (d) (Mech.) The thin sheet of metal squeezed out
between the collars of the rolls in the process of rolling. Raymond.
(e) (Mech.) A feather; a spline.