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To ftore abundantly: 
Be fruitful, multiplVi and in the fens 
And lakes and running dreams the waters fill. Milton. 
Tofatisfy; to content.—Nothing but the fupreme and 
abfolute Infinite can adequately fill and fuperabundantly 
fatisfy the infinite defires of intelligent beings. Cheyne. — 
To glut; to furfeit: 
Thou art going to lord Timon’s feaft. 
Ay, to fee meat fill knaves, and wine heat fools. Shakefp, 
To Fill out. To pour out liquor for drink. To ex¬ 
tend by fomething contained : 
Whom pomp and greatnefs fits fo loofe about. 
That he wants majefty to fill them out. Dryden. 
To Fill up. [Up is often ufed without much addition 
to the force of the verb.] To make full : 
Hope leads from goal to goal, 
And opens ftill, and opens on his foul ; 
’Till lengthen’d on to faith, and unconfin’d. 
It pours the blifs that fills up ail the mind. Pope. 
Tofupply.—When the feveral trades and profefiions are 
fupplied, you will find mod of thofe that are proper for 
war abfolutely necefiary for filling up the laborious part 
of life, and carrying on the underwork of the nation. 
Addifon. —To occupy by bulk.—-There would not be 
altogether fo much water required for the land as for 
the fea, to raife them to an equal height; becaufe moun¬ 
tains and hills would fill up part of that fpace upon the 
land, and fo make lefs water requifite. Burnet. —To en¬ 
gage; to employ: 
x Is it far you ride ? 
As far, my lord, as will Jill up the time 
’Twixt this and fupper. Shakefpeare. 
To FILL, v. n. To give to drink.—In the cup which 
Hie hath filled, Jill to her double. Rev. xviii.—To grow 
full. To .glut; .to fatiate.-—Things that are fweet and 
fat are more filling, and do fwirn, and hang more about 
the mouth of the ftomach, and go not down fo fpeedily. 
Bacon. 
To Fill up. To grow full.—Neither the Pal us Meotis 
nor the F.nxine, nor any other feas, fill up, or by degrees 
grow fhallower. Woodward. —The firft ftage of healing, 
or the difcharge of matter, is by furgeons called digeftion ; 
the fecond, or the filling up with flefli, incarnation ; and 
the lafi, or fkinning over, cicatrization. Sharp. 
FILL, f. As much as may produce complete fatisfac- 
tion.—When ye were thirfty, did I not cleave the rock, 
and waters flowed out to your Jill? 2 Efd. i. 20. 
Amid’ the tree now got, where plenty hung 
Tempting fo nigh, to pluck and eat my fill, 
I fpar’d not. Milton. 
FIL'LEK, a town of Hungary, taken by the Turks in 
1554, but retaken foon after : fixteen miles eaft-fouth-eaft 
of Korpova. ' 
FILL'ER, fi. Any thing that fills up room without 
life.-—A mixture of tender gentle thoughts and fuitable 
expreflions, of forced and inextricable conceits, and of 
needlefs fillers up to the reft. Pope. —One whofe employ¬ 
ment is to fill velfels of carriage.—They have fix diggers 
to four fillers, fo as to keep the fillers always at work. 
Mortimer. 
FlL'LET,yi [fillet, Fr .jilum, Lat.] A band tied round 
the head or other part: 
She fcorn’d the praife of beauty, and the care ; 
A belt her waift, a fillet binds her hair. Pope. 
The flefhy part of the thigh ; applied commonly to veal : 
The youth approach’d the fire, and as it burn’d, 
On five fharp broachers rank’d, the roaft they turn’d : 
Thefe morfels flay’d their ftomachs; then the reft 
They cut in legs and fillets for the feaft, Dryden . 
Meat rolled together and tied round : 
Fillet of a fenny fnake, 
In the cauldron boil and bake. Shakefpeare. 
[In architecture.] A little member which appears in 
the ornaments and mouldings, and is otherwife called 
lifiel. —Pillars and their fillets of filver. Exod. —-See Ar¬ 
chitecture, vol. ii. p. 65. 
To FlL'LET, v. a. To bind wiih a bandage or fillet. 
To adorn with an aftragal.—He made hooks for the pil¬ 
lars, and overlaid their chapiters, and fillettcd them. Exod. 
xxxviii. 28. 
To FIL'LIP, v. a. [a word, fays Skinner, formed from 
the found ] To ftrike with the nail of the finger by a 
fudden fpring or motion.—We fee, that if you fillip a lute- 
ftring, it flieweth double or treble. Bacon. 
FIL'LIP, fi. A jerk of thefingerlet go from the thumb. 
FIL'LISBURG, a town of Germany, in the archduchy 
of Aufiria : four miles fouth-fouth-weft of Enns. 
FIL'LY,yi [ filoy, Welfh ; fille, Fr.] A young mare : 
Geld fillies , but tits, yet a nine days of age, 
They die elfe of gelding, and gelders do rage : 
Young fillies fo likely of bulk and of bone, 
Keep fuch to be breeders, let gelding alone. Tujfer „ 
A young mare ; oppofed to a colt or young horfe : 
I jeft to Oberon, and make him fmile, 
When I a fat and bean-fed horfe beguile. 
Neighing in likenefs of a filly- foal. Shakefpeare. 
FILM,y. [■pymleha, Sax.] A thin pellicle or Ikin.—» 
While the filver needle did work upon the fight of his 
eye, to remove the film of the catarafi, he never faw any 
thing more clear or perfect than that white needle. Bacon. 
He from thick films fhall purge the vifual ray, 
And on the fightlefs eyeball pour the day. Pope. 
To FILM, v. a. To cover with a pellicle or thin flein : 
It will but Ikin and film the ulcerous place, 
Whilft rank corruption, mining all within, 
InfeCts unfeen. Shakefpeare. 
FIL'MY, adj. Compofed of thin membranes or pel¬ 
licles : 
So the fatfe fpider, when her nets are fpread, 
Deep ambufh’d in her filent den dees lie ; 
And feels, far off, the trembling of her thread, 
Whofe filmy cord fhould bind the ftruggling fiy. Dryden. 
FILOPONSKA'JA, a town of European Turkey, in 
Bulgaria: eighteen miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Ifmael. 
FILQ'QJJIA, a town of European Turkey, in the pro¬ 
vince of Livadia : forty-fix miles north-north-weft of 
Lepanto. 
FILOSEL'LA,/. A kind of coarfe fllk, the fi Ik of 
which ferret is made. Phillips. 
To FIL'TER, v. a. [ filtro , low Lat. perfilum trahere .] 
To defecate by drawing off liquor by depending threads. 
To ftrain ; to percolate. — Dilute this liquor with fair 
water, filter it through a paper, and fo evaporate it. Grew. 
FIL'TER, f. ['jiltrum , Lat.] A twift of thread, of 
which one end is dipped in the liquor to be defecated, 
and the other hangs below the bottom of the veflel lo 
that the liquor drips from it. A ftrainer ; a fearce. Any 
artifice, machine, or veflel, by means of which defecation 
of filtration is performed.—That the waterpaflingthrough 
the veins of the earth, fhould be rendered frefti and pota¬ 
ble, which it cannot be by any percolations we can make, 
but the faline particles will pafs through a tenfold filter , 
Ray. 
FIL'TER, fi. among the ancient magicians, a charm, 
fuppofed to have the power of infpiring love. The word 
is derived from (pt/dpoy, of tp iAew, amo , I love. The ope¬ 
rations of thefe irritating potions was often violent and 
dangerous, and commonly deprived fuch as drank them 
of their reafon. Plutarch and Cornelius Nepos report, 
that Lucullus, the Roman general, firft loft his reafon,. 
