tike 
L'L'l 1 
filch 
lie jikhiii alHiut thae nitf-natfy gentles that i:;u- sar miicklc 
fash wi' tlieir fancies." Scott, Guy Mannering, xliv. 
2f. To hurry away. 
Thf SaiTzym-s tlcdde, away gunne/i/JlT. 
Richard Cner de Liun, 1. 4749. 
II. trans. To give trouble to ; vex ; perplex. 
[Scotch.] 
fike- (fik), n. [<fikc2, ;.] 1. Restlessness or 
Eng. and Scotch.] 
O sic bfike and sic a flstle 
I had about it. 
Hamilton, in Ramsay's Poems, II. 332. (Jamieson.) 
2. Any trifling peculiarity in regard to work 
which causes unnecessary trouble ; teasing ex- 
actness of operation. [Scotch.] 
pie, in the Discoplmra. Spermatic filament, a sper- 
matozoon: so called from its fine thready shape. Urtl- 
Cating filament, the thread of a thread-cell or cnida ; a 
midocil. See cut under cnida. 
filamentar (fll-a-men'tar), a. [< filament + 
-rt' 2 .] Filamentary. 
Even such slips of mesentery as are at no point in contact 
with tlie stoinatoiheum often exhibit a filamentar 
infect with Filaria. 
We may settle the relationship of the mosquito to the 
l-'ilana . . . by filariating a man. 
Manson, Trans. Linn. Soc., II. ii. 368. 
filariform (fi-lar'i-f6rm), a. [< NL. Filaria + 
L. forma, form.] Of the form of Filaria : as, 
fflariform nematoids. 
l I HI UUC DMM1HMV1MBUUI UlliCIl t TA II I MIL 11 It t(( IHVItt HI \^ltt|JC- j' y 
ilal) thickening. Jour. Micros. Science, XXVIII. 425. Filariidse (fil-a-ri'i-de), n. pi. [NL., < Filaria 
LAV* \ ix "/ " L > J*" 1 "J * ivv-o/*i-cioivoo vl . v _, , . 
agitation caused by trifling annoyance. [Prov. filamentary (fil-a-men'ta-ri), a. [< filament + + "">! 1 he hairworms or guinea-worms, a 
-ary.~\ Having the character of or formed by a family of parasitic thread-like worms, of the or- 
filament. der ^fematoidea, typified by the genus Filaria. 
In the blennies, the forked hake, the forked beard, and Also Filariada;. See cut under Filaria. 
some other Ashes, the ventral fins are reduced to Jilamen- fllate (fi'lat), n. [< NL. flatus, thread-like, < 
tary feelers. Owen, Anat. 1,. filum, a thread: see file 3 .'] In entom., straight 
n continuous and without a. ln.t.Arn.l hrietlo rtvnrrtnaoa MI, till..,] 
ower mony /;/*(. 
than twa hours ; 
your room in eve] , 
E. Hamilton, Cottagers of Glenburnie, p. 205, 
fike 3 (fik), . [< ME. fike, < AS. fie (in comp.), 
fig: see fig 2 .] If. A fig. 2. A sore place on 
the foot. [Prov. Eng.] 
fikelt, a. A Middle English form of fickle. 
fikery (fi'ke-ri), n. [So., < fike? + -ery.] The 
Any substance capable of yielding a certain continuous 
and uninterrupted length of filamentary matter may be 
called textile fibre. 
W. Crookeg, Dyeing and Calico-printing, p. 16. 
And, indeed, to be plain wi' you, cusin, I think you have 
. There, did na' ye keep Grizzy for mair filamented (fiTa-men-ted), rt. [< filament + filateriet "" ""[MlT"^ 
Bonier?"' ^^ Provided with filaments or filamentary a l so filatiere, etc.,''< LL. phylacterium, < Gri 
and without a lateral bristle or process : applied 
specifically to the antennre of certain Diptera. 
Fllate margin, in entom,, a margin separated from 
the disk by an impressed line running close to the edge. 
OF. filaterie, philaterie, 
, phylactery: see phylactery.'] 
Middle English form of phylactery. Wyclif. 
-, . ., -. .. 
act of giving trouble about trifles ; vexatious nlamentpltt (ftl-a-men toid), a 
trouble. -oio.J Like a filament. 
"Icanna understand," said he, "what for a' this fy- filamentose (fil-a-men'tos), a. 
kerie 's about a lump o' yird." Gait, The Entail, I. 306. ' 
processes. 
The cells were larger and were not filamented. _ 
Buck; HaMbook of tied. Sciences, IV. 626. filatoryt (fil'a'-to-ri), n" "[= Pg."/tetor^,Tl'ate 
filamentlferous (fil"a-men-tif 'e-rus), a. [< NL. ML. filatorium, a thread- or rope-factory, a sew- 
filamentum, filament, + L. ferre = E. bearl.] ing-room, < filare, wind thread, spin : see fila- 
ment and file*.'] A spinning-machine. 
This manufactory has three filatories, each of 640 reels, 
which are moved by a water-wheel, and besides a small 
Bearing a filament or filaments ; filiferous. 
mentotift. 
[< filament + 
Same as flla- 
filatory turned by men. Tooke. 
, . __ .__, , filature (fil'a-tur), . [= F. filature = Pr. fila- 
fiky (fi'ki), a. [Sc., < fike 2 + -01.] Causing or filamentous (fil-a-men'tus), a. [= F. filamen- dura = Sp. It.'filatura, < ML. filatura, the art 
ffiviner trouble, esDeciallv about trifles : finical : te " x = ?P- P .S- . rttewen toso ; &s filament + of spinning, also a coarse thread, < filare, wind 
.] 1. Like a thread; composed of threads " J ; - - *'-* - A * 
filaments. 
giving trouble, especially about trifles ; finical : 
unduly particular ; troublesome in regard to 
matters of no consequence: as, fiky work; a 
fiky body. 
filH- An obsolete preterit of fall 1 . Chaucer. 
filSf, n. An obsolete form of filly. 
A fit of the same race, both sire and dam, begotten by 
the father of lies upon a slanderous tongue, and so sent 
post about the world to tell false tidings of the English. 
Abp. Bancroft, Consecration Sermon, 1660. 
fila, n. Plural offilum. 
filacet, [< OF. filace, filasse (ML. filacinm), 
a file for papers (ct.filas, a net, F. filasse, tow), 
< L. filum, thread: see file 3 ."] A file or thread 
There are several filamentous microbia which can give 
rise to the same appearance. Science, III. 520. 
Except in Amphioxus, the branchiae are always lamel- 
lar, or filamentous, appendages of more or fewer of the 
visceral arches. Huxley, Anat. Vert., p. 91. 
2. Capable of being drawn out into filaments, 
like mucus ; hence, in med. , containing a stringy 
substance: as, filamentous urine. 3. Having 
filaments; fringed or fringe-like; fimbriate. 
Filamentous fungus, mycelium, sporophore, thal- 
lus, etc. See the nouns. Filamentous tissue, fine 
fibrous tissue ; fibrocellular or areolar tissue. 
thread, spin: see file 9 , 17.] 1. A forming into 
threads ; the reeling of silk from cocoons. 
Floss-silk ... is the name given to the portions of rav- 
elled silk broken oft" in the Mature of the cocoons. 
Ure, Diet., II. 461. 
2. A reel for drawing off silk from cocoons; a 
filatory. 3. An establishment for reeling silk. 
Steam filatures have become the one thing needed for 
success [in silk-culture]. The American, VII. 301. 
Indeed, I am assured, on good authority, that it is only 
fresh cocoons that go from the producers to the filatures: 
even if choked, they are accounted fresh. Science, III. 431. 
filazer (fil'a-zer), n. Same as filacer. 
on which the records of the courts of justice fllamentule (fil-a-men'tul), n. [< NL. as if *fila- filberdt (fil'berd), n. An obsolete form of filbert. 
' 
were strung. Halliwell. 
filaceous (fi-la'shius), a. [< L. filum, a thread, + 
-aceoMS.] Composed or consisting of thread or 
thread-like parts ; filamentous. 
It is the stalk that inaketh the filaceous matter, com- 
monly. Bacon, Nat. Hist., 614. 
filacer (fil'a-ser), n. [Also written filazer; < 
mentulum, dim. of filamentum, filament.] The filbert (fil'bert), n. [Formerly also written fil- 
berd, also filbeard, also (with ph) philbert, phili- 
part of a down-feather or plumule which cor- 
responds to the barbule of an ordinary feather. 
[Bare.] 
These filamentules have the same relation to the fila- 
ment, their shaft, that the barbules of the feathers have 
to their barbs. Macgillivray. 
) 
OF. filacier, floater, < filace, filasse, a file for filanderi (fi-lan'der), [Early mod. E. (pi.) 
papers: see filace.'] A former officer in the fy^undres; < OF. filandre, fillandre,F. filandre, 
English Court of Common Pleas, who filed origi- a thread, string, air-thread, gossamer, in pi. 
nal writs, etc., and made out processes on them, filandres, nlanders (> bp. filundna = It. filan- 
FilagO (fi-la'go), n. [NL., < X,. filum, a thread : * filanders) irreg < F. fil, a thread, < L. 
see files.] A genus of low, annual, cottony * ^\ : see fi le3 ^ 1 : The small intestinal worm 
herbs, belonging to the Composite, and nearly 
related to Gnaphaliiim. There are 8 or 10 widely dis- 
tributed species, 3 of which are found on the Pacific coast 
of North America. The cotton-rose or herb impious of 
Europe, F. Germanica, is also naturalized in the United 
States. 
filament (fil'a-ment), n. [= F. filament = Sp. 
Pg. It. filamento, < NL. filamentum, < ML. filare, 
wind thread, spin, < L. filum, thread : see file 3 .'] 
1. A fine untwisted thread ; a separate fiber or 
fibril of any vegetable or animal tissue or pro- 
which causes the disease called filanders. 2. 
pi. A disease in hawks, caused by small intes- 
tinal worms. Also felanders. 3. The external 
membrane of gut scraped off in the manufac- 
ture of catgut. Commonly as French, filandre. 
This filandre is employed as thread to sew intestines 
and to make the cords of rackets and battledores. 
Ure, Diet., I. 750. 
duct, natural or artificial, or of a fibrous min- 
maturus asiaticus or Macropus lirtini. 
lander. 
See phi- 
which the Great First Cause endued with animality. -ri.i 
//. Spencer, Prin. of Biol., 144. f liana (n-la ri-a), re. 
It is suggested that the excitement of any single fila- a thread : see 
inent of the cochlear nerve gives rise in the mind to a dis- 
tinct musical impression. 
Huxley and Youmans, Physiol., 258. 
Specifically 2. In bot., the support of an an- 
ther, usually slender and stalk-like, but very eral feet. F. sanamnis-hominis the 
larval form of which is found in the 
lymphatics and blood-vessels, is said 
to be the cause of elephantiasis. F. 
inedinensis is the hairworm or guinea- 
worm, common in the tropical regions 
' ' i the sub- 
family Filariidos, 
parasitic nematode worms of 
very slender filiform shape, 
some attaining a length of sev- 
[NL., < Claris, < L. filiim, 
The typical genus of the 
containing 
variable in form. 3. In ornith., the part of a 
down-feather corresponding to the barb of an 
ordinary feather. Macgillivray. 4. A tenu- 
ous thread of any substance, as glass or mu- , ,,. ,, 
cus; hence, in mod., a glairy substance some- of the old world, and found in the 
times contained in urine, capable of being cutaneous tissue. 
drawn out into threads or strings. 5. The Fllanada (fil-a-ri a-de), n. 
nearly infusible conductor placed in the globe '? i ,* 
of an incandescent lamp or glow-lamp and UlanalCn-la n-al),a. [< Filana + -al] 
raised to incandescence by the passage of the In 8 to ' of the nature of, or caused by Filaria. 
current. It is usually some form of carbon In the iKnrral disease the filarial embryos are found in 
although metals with high points of fusion have ^1^^^^^-^ ^ nly "' ^ 
etl.- Filament Of Needham, the spermato- n. II". Kichanimn, Prevent. Med., p. 570. 
Guinea-worm (Fila- 
ria meainenais']. 
pi. Same as Fila- 
bert, phittiberd; < ME. filberde, fylberde, fyl- 
byrde, ffylbert, philliberd. Origin uncertain, the 
history being obscure and involved in fable and 
conjecture ; perhaps ult. from the name of St. 
Pliilibert.'] 1. A cultivated variety of the com- 
mon hazelnut, Corylus Avellana. The Turkey 
filbert is the fruit of C. Colurna. See Corylus. 
I'll bring thee 
To cliisfring/i-d. Shak., Tempest, ii. 2. 
2. The shrub which bears the nut. Also called 
filbert-tree. 
And Demephon was so reproved 
That Phillis in the same throwe [moment] 
Was shape into a nutte-tre . . . 
And after Phillis philliberd 
This tre was cleped in the yerd. 
Gou'er, Conf. Amant., II. 30. 
The countrey yeeldeth many good trees of fruit, as fit- 
herds in some places, but in all places cherie trees, and a 
kind of peare tree meet to grade on. 
Hakluyt's Voyages, III. 132. 
Thefylbyrdes hanging to the ground, 
The fygg-tree and the maple round. 
The Squyr of Lowe Denre, 1. 37 (Bitson's Metr. Rom., III.). 
filbert-nutt (fil'bert-nut), n. [ME. fylberde- 
notte, < fylberde, filbert, + notte, nutte, nut.] A 
filbert. 
Fylberde notte, flllum. Prompt. Pare. 
filbert-tree (fil'bert-tre), . [Formerly also 
filbeard-tree ; < ME. fylberdtre, fylbertre, < fyl- 
berde, fylbert, filbert, + tre, tree.] Same as 
filbert, 2. 
filch (filch), v. t. [< ME. filchen, steal, of ob- 
scure origin; perhaps an assibilation of an 
unrecorded "filken, *felgen, retaining the orig. 
guttural of ME.felen, hide, conceal, as shown in 
Icel./eta, pp.folginn, hide, intrust, commend, = 
Goth, filhan, hide, bury : seefeafi.] To steal, 
especially in a small, sly way ; pilfer ; take from 
another on a petty scale, as for the supply of 
a present need, or in an underhand way, as by 
violation of trust or good faith. 
In the end he gat himselfe the anger and displeasure of 
the masters and keepers of the said ponds and cisterns, 
with his continuall and immeasurable filchinq. 
Holland, tr. of Pliny, I. 251. 
But he that filches from me my good name 
Robs me of that which not enriches him. 
And makes me poor indeed. Shak., Othello, Hi. 3. 
