Chapter Filefish to Filoplumaceous of F by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

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.