<B>filibuster, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>(U.S.) <DD><B> a. </B>the act or process of deliberately hindering the passage of a bill in a legislature by long speeches or other means of delay. <BR> <I>Ex. There was a three-hours' filibuster against the Civil Service Clause (E. F. Wyatt).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>a member of a legislature who deliberately hinders the passage of a bill by long speeches or other means of delay. <DD><B> c. </B>any hindering by delaying actions or speeches. <BR> <I>Ex. A male stockholder told [him] that by repeatedly calling upon certain predictable filibusterers in the room he was in effect conducting a filibuster himself (New Yorker).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>any person, especially a citizen of the United States, who unlawfully initiated or supported a revolt against South American and Central American governments during the 1800's in order to enrich himself. <DD><B> 3. </B>a person who fights against another country without the authorization of his government; a freebooter. <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>(U.S.) to deliberately hinder the passage of a bill by long speeches or other means of delay. <DD><B> 2. </B>to hinder progress by delaying actions or speeches. <BR> <I>Ex. It figured that he'd stay in there filibustering for Morris's book (Saturday Review).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to act as a filibuster or freebooter; fight against another country without the authorization of one's government. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to deliberately hinder the passage of (a bill) by long speeches or other means of delay. <BR> <I>Ex. Many House members are in a churlish mood, having passed last year's bill ... only to see the Senate filibuster it to death (New York Times).</I> noun <B>filibusterer.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="filicauline">
<B>filicauline, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Botany.) having a threadlike stem. </DL>
<A NAME="filicicacid">
<B>filicic acid,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a crystalline compound found in the rhizome of the common male fern; filicin. </DL>
<A NAME="filicidal">
<B>filicidal, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having to do with the slaughter of sons and daughters. </DL>
<A NAME="filicide">
<B>filicide</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who kills his child. </DL>
<A NAME="filicide">
<B>filicide</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the act of killing one's child. </DL>
<A NAME="filicin">
<B>filicin, </B>noun. =filicic acid.</DL>
<A NAME="filiferous">
<B>filiferous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> producing threads, or bearing threadlike growths, as some plants, insects, and mollusks. </DL>
<B>filigree, </B>noun, verb, <B>-greed,</B> <B>-greeing,</B> adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>very delicate, lacelike ornamental work of gold or silver wire. <DD><B> 2. </B>any similar ornamental work. <DD><B> 3a. </B>a lacy, delicate, or fanciful pattern in any material. <BR> <I>Ex. The frost made a beautiful filigree on the windowpane.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>(Figurative.) anything very delicate or fanciful. <BR> <I>Ex. Guarantees, he said, were mere filigree, pretty to look at but too brittle to bear the slightest pressure (Macaulay).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to decorate (especially jewelry) with filigree. <DD><B> 2. </B>to form (gold, silver, or other metal) into filigree. <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>ornamented with or as if with filigree; made into filigree. <BR> <I>Ex. filigree earrings.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) delicate. Also, <B>filigree.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="filigreework">
<B>filigreework, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> work in filigree; filigree. </DL>
<A NAME="filings">
<B>filings, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> small pieces removed by a file. <BR> <I>Ex. iron filings, nail filings.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="filiopietistic">
<B>filiopietistic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> marked by an excess of filial piety. </DL>
<A NAME="filioque">
<B>filioque, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the Latin word, meaning "and from the Son," inserted in the Western version of the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed to assert the doctrine that the Holy Spirit proceeds not only from the Father, as the Eastern Church believes, but from both the Father and the Son. </DL>
<A NAME="filipin">
<B>filipin, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an antibiotic effective against various fungous diseases, obtained from a moldlike soil microorganism discovered in the Philippines. </DL>
<B>Filipino, </B>noun, pl. <B>-nos,</B> adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a person born or living in the Philippines. <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>=Philippine.</B> </DL>
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<B>fill</B> (1), verb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to put something into until there is room for nothing more; make full. <BR> <I>Ex. to fill a cup. Fill this bottle with water. Fill this hole with something.</I> <DD><B> 2a. </B>to take up all the space in. <BR> <I>Ex. The crowd filled the hall. Smoke filled the room.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>to occupy all the time of. <BR> <I>Ex. She filled her days with trivial tasks. Solemn marches fill the nights (Julia Ward Howe).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to satisfy the hunger or appetite of. <BR> <I>Ex. to fill one's needs. A poor man finds that a starchy diet will fill his family at least expense.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>to supply with all that is needed for. <BR> <I>Ex. The store filled her order by selling what she asked for. The druggist filled the doctor's prescription.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>to stop up or close by putting something in. <BR> <I>Ex. After the dentist had taken out the decay, he filled my tooth.</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>to hold and do the duties of (a position or office). <BR> <I>Ex. to fill a diplomatic post. Can he fill the office of vice-president?</I> (SYN) occupy. <DD><B> 7. </B>to supply a person for or appoint a person to (a position or office). <BR> <I>Ex. to fill a judgeship.</I> <DD><B> 8. </B>to stock or supply abundantly. <BR> <I>Ex. to fill a stream with trout.</I> <DD><B> 9. </B>to adulterate. <BR> <I>Ex. to fill fabrics.</I> <DD><B> 10. </B>to make delivery on or execute (an order). <BR> <I>Ex. When can you fill this order for lumber?</I> <DD><B> 11a. </B>(of the wind) to stretch out (a sail) by blowing fully into it. <DD><B> b. </B>to set (a yard) so that the wind will blow into the sail fully from behind. <DD><B> 12. </B>to buildup or make an embankment in (a fully, hollow, or other depression) with fill. <DD><B> 13. </B>in poker: <DD><B> a. </B>to complete (a full house, flush, straight, or other combination) by drawing the necessary cards. <DD><B> b. </B>to improve (one's hand) by drawing complementary cards. <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to become full. <BR> <I>Ex. The well filled with water. The hall filled rapidly. Her heart filled with joy.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>in poker: <DD><B> a. </B>to make a flush or other combination. <DD><B> b. </B>(of the flush or other combination) to become complete. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>enough to fill something. <BR> <I>Ex. a fill of tobacco for a pipe.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) all that is needed or wanted. <BR> <I>Ex. Eat and drink your fill; there is plenty for all of us.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>something that fills, such as earth or gravel for building up a gully, hollow, or other depression, or making an embankment. <BR><I>expr. <B>fill away,</B> </I>(Nautical.) to catch the wind by setting the yards or trimming the sails. <BR> <I>Ex. Each vessel filled away, and kept on her course (Richard Henry Dana).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>fill in,</B> <DD><B> a. </B>to fill with something; put in. </I> <I>Ex. Fill in the cracks with putty.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>to complete by filling. <BR> <I>Ex. to fill in a traffic ticket.</I> <DD><B> c. </B>to put in to complete something; insert. <BR> <I>Ex. to fill in the date of an application.</I> <DD><B> d. </B>to supply (a person) with new or additional items of information; brief. <BR> <I>Ex. A spokesman filled in reporters on the properties of the vaccine.</I> <DD><B> e. </B>to be a substitute. <BR> <I>Ex. The understudy filled in for the vacationing star.</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>fill one's shoes.</B> </I>See under <B>shoe.</B> <BR><I>expr. <B>fill out,</B> <DD><B> a. </B>to make larger; grow larger; swell. </I> <I>Ex. to fill out a tire with air.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>to make rounder; grow rounder. <BR> <I>Ex. Good food and exercise filled out his skinny frame. Her cheeks have filled out.</I> <DD><B> c. </B>to complete by filling. <BR> <I>Ex. to fill out an application.</I> <DD><B> d. </B>to supply what is needed in. <BR> <I>Ex. The clerk added a sack of potatoes to fill out the order.</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>fill the bill.</B> </I>See under <B>bill</B> (1). <BR><I>expr. <B>fill up,</B> </I>to fill; fill completely. <BR> <I>Ex. Come, fill up my cup, come, fill up my can (Scott). They have passed very decisive laws for filling up their regiments for the war (A. McDougall).</I> </DL>
<B>filled, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B><B>=full.</B> <DD><B> 2. </B>made with a filling, or an addition, of a different, usually inferior, material. <BR> <I>Ex. filled cloth.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="filledechambre">
<B>fille de chambre,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) a lady's maid. </DL>
<A NAME="filledejoie">
<B>fille de joie,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) a prostitute. </DL>
<A NAME="filledgold">
<B>filled gold,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> cheap metal, commonly brass, covered with a layer of gold, used as a substitute for solid gold, as for jewelry. </DL>
<A NAME="filledhonneur">
<B>fille d'honneur,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) a maid of honor. </DL>
<A NAME="filledmilk">
<B>filled milk,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> skim milk to which vegetable oils have been added to increase the fat content. </DL>
