Shakspeare, In the cauldron boil and bake. His baleful breath inspiring as he glides, like a chain around her neck he rides ; like a fillet to her head repairs, with his circling volumes folds her hairs. Dryden's Æneid. The youth approached the fire, and as it burned, ive sharp broachers ranked, the roast they turned; The morsels stayed their stomachs; then the rest y cut in legs and fillets for the feast. Dryden. Me scorned the praise of beauty, and the care; Telt her waist, a fillet binds her hair. Pope. And still they seem resentfully to feel The silken fillet's curb, and sought to shun eir bonds, whene'er some Zephyr, caught, began er her young pinion as her fan. Byron. FILLET, in heraldry, a kind of orle or bordure, aining only a third or fourth part of the dth of the common bordure. It is supposed be withdrawn inwards, and is of a different er from the field. It runs quite round, near e edge, as a lace over a cloak. Fillet is also e for an ordinary drawn like the bar fron, the ter point of the chief across the shield, in Banner of a scarf; though it is sometimes likese seen in the situation of a bend, fesse, cross, According to Guillin, the fillet is a fourth art of the chief, and is placed in the chief at of the escutcheon. FILLIBEG. Gael. filleadh-beg, i. e. little d. The lower part of the Highland dress, Faching to the knees. In the islands the plaid is rarely worn. The fillibeg, a lower garment, is still very common. · Johnson's Journey to the Hebrides. FIL'LIP, v. a. & n. s. Belg. flip, a flap; Teut. and Swed. fil. A word conjectured by Skinner and Minsheu to be formed from the sound': Dr. Johnson thinks from fill up, by some combination of ideas which cannot be recovered: Mr. Todd suggests the Lat. alapa, a blow, or stroke, as the origin; but the northern languages evidently supplied us with it; and FLABBY, FLAP, FLIPPANCY, are of the same family. See those words. To strike with the finger nail by catching it against the thumb: a fillip is a jerk, or stroke, of this kind. Man's life is a glass, and a fillip may crack it. Old Play (1599). Then let the pebbles on the hungry beach Fillip the stars; then let the mutinous winds Strike the proud cedars 'gainst the fiery sun. Gay. The cards obedient to his words, Are by a fillip turned to birds. FIL'LY, n. s. Swed. fola; Welsh ffilog; Icel. filia, of Lat. filia, as it were the daughter of the mare.'-Minsheu. A young female horse; and, metaphorically, a light or wanton woman Geld fillies, but tits, yet a nine days of age, They die else of gelding, and gelders do rage: Young fillies so likely of bulk and of bone, Keep such to be breeders, let gelding alone. While the silver needle did work upon the sight of his eye, to remove the film of the cataract, he never saw any thing more clear or perfect than that white needle. Bacon. Michael from Adam's eyes the film removed, Had bred. So the false spider, when her nets are spread, The wasps with fruitless toil Bereave them of their worthless souls; such doom There is not one infidel so ridiculous as to pretend to solve the phænomena of sight, fancy, or cogitation, Id. Though still deceived, some stranger's near approach. Darwin. FILMER (Sir Robert), son of Sir Edward Filmer, of East Sutton, Kent, was born towards the close of the sixteenth century, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. His works are, The Anarchy of limited and mixed Monarchy, 1646; Patriarcha, in which he endeavours to prove that all governments were originally monarchical, and that all legal titles are derived from the heads of families. This work was completely answered by Locke in his two Treatises on Government. Filmer died in 1647. FILMER (Edward), son of Sir Robert, who took his degree of LL. D. at Oxford, and was author of a tragedy called the Unnatural Brother. He defended the stage against Jeremy Collier. FILOTI, a town of European Turkey, in the pachalic of Joannina, and the chief place of a small independent tribe of that name, consisting of 6000 or 8000 men. It is eight miles west of Joannina. FILTER, v. a. & n. s. Fr. filtre; It. feltro; FILTERING-STONE, Lat. filtro (per filum FILTRATE, v. a. trahere). To draw off FILTRATION, n. s. by threads; hence to purify by drawing off, in any way: the substantive was once applied to the twist of thread depending from a vessel by which liquors were cleansed; it is now used for any strainer or cleansing vessel: hence the modern filteringstone.' See below. Having, for trial sake, filtered it through cap-paper, there remained in the filtre a powder. Boyle. We took then common nitre, and having, by the usual way of solution, filtration, and coagulation, reduced it into crystals, we put four ounces of this purified nitre into a strong new crucible. Id. fluids; and for this purpose, filters of various kinds and various substances have been ernployed. That which is twisted up like a skain or wick, acts like a siphon, while it draws off only the purest part of the liquor. Others are of paper, flannel, fine linen, sand, pounded glass, or porous stones. When paper is used, it is shaped into the form of a cone, and placed in a funnel, to support it with the liquid, otherwise it would burst; but flannel or linen may be used in the form of a bag or otherwise. Filtering stones, basins, &c., are either natural or artificial, for the purpose of purifying water. Natural filters are found in rocks, mountains, beds of sand, &c. Artificial filtering basins are made of pipe-clay and coarse sand. In 1790 a female potter obtained a patent for discovering a composition to make filtering basins, as a succedaneum for that porous stone which in many places is not to be found. A patent was also obtained by Mr. Peacock, in 1791, for a new kind of filtration, by means of gravel of different sizes, suitable to the several strata. The various sizes of the particles of gravel, as placed in layers, should be nearly in the quadruple ratio of their surfaces; that is, upon the first layer a second is to be placed, the diameters of whose particles are not to be less than one-half of the first, and so on in this proportion. This arrangement of filtering particles will gradually fine the water by the grosser particles being quite intercepted in their ascending with the water. These filters may be readily cleansed by withdrawing the body of the fluid, when that which covered the strata will descend, and carry away all the foul and extraneous substances. A patent was also granted to Mr. Collier, of Southwark, for a most ingenious method of filtering water, oil, and other liquids. The principle of the improved filtering machines consists in combining hydrostatic pressure with the mode of filtering per ascensum, which procures the peculiar advantage of causing the fluid and its sediment to take opposite directions The filtering surface remains the same, while the dimensions of the chamber in which the sediment is received may be varied. Professor Parrot jun. of Paris also invented a very ingenious and portable filtering machine, represented in the diagram annexed: The reservoir G may be of any form or dision which is convenient; the principal part the machinery consisting of a square vessel, 10, bent in the form of an inverted syphon. De curve may be circular, elliptic, or in any direction, and made of block-tin. This is filled with fine sand, till nearly the t of the dotted line ry, which denotes the rest of the water to D, whence it flows into receiver. To the part marked AB, which always be above this line (according to the of the filtering machine), a woollen bag is ached, open at the top, the lower part of which buches the sand: this collects the coarsest imties, and preserves the sand for a longer time becoming foul. It is evident that the water at A, through the bag into the filter, and at the place marked D, which is considerlower than the former. a large machines a water-tight trap-door may made at E, for the purpose of removing the when it is overcharged with impurities. small diameter of the machine from which drawing was taken was eight Paris inches B to E; the perpendicular height of the rer side, from C, its basis, to the rim D, whence water issues, four inches and one-twelfth; * opposite height of the mouth, A B, eight es and three-fourths; and the height of the don the side marked D, three inches and oneA machine of these dimensions will furabout three quarts of water in an hour, or This en gallons in twenty-four hours. ty, however, being too large in proportion size of the machine, it is advisable to prothe stratum of sand, in order to reduce the on of the water to half the quantity above ned, and to obtain it in greater purity. Thus a filtering apparatus eighteen inches long A to D, two inches thick, and four broad, d afford every hour six pints of very pure The society of Arts, &c., voted their silver al, in the session of 1810, to Mr. W. Moult, d Square, for his new method of applythe filtering stone, for purifying water. The thod of using this stone is that of placing it water to be purified; by which means the presses against the outside of the filter, ozing through its pores, fills the stone, from ich it is to be conveyed into a proper recep The stone is suspended in the cistern by ground the inside of it, upon which a proing part round the top of the stone rests. empurities are thus left at the bottom of the fern, instead of at the bottom of the stone. FILTER, OF FILTRE, from piλrpov or piλew I Te, is also a charm, supposed to have a virtue aspiring love. This is more properly written ELTER, which see. Sax. Filo, from Fylan, FILTH, n. s. FILTH'ILY, adv. to defile; Goth. fyla; FILTH'INESS, n. s. (Teut. foulheit. Dirt; pollution; uncleanness; corFILTHY, adj. And 'gan abhor her brood's unkindly crime Fair is foul, and foul is fair; Neither may you trust waters that taste sweet; for Such do likewise exceedingly dispose us to piety and religion, by purifying our souls from the dross and filth of sensual delights. Tillotson. Swift. Thee will a land of liberty we name, Like caterpillars, dangling under trees Hence ye, who snare and stupify the mind, Beattie. Saxon Fin; Belg. vine; FIN-FOOTED, adj. | Goth. fawn; Swed. fewna; FIN'LESS, Lat. pinna. The wing,' says Dr. Johnson, 'of a fish ;' the cartilaginous membrane on the sides of fish, which assists them in swimming: fin-footed, and fin-toed, mean web-footed, or web-toed; palmipedous. FIN-LIKE, FIN'NED, FIN'NY, FIN'-TOED. Id. Dryden. New herds of beasts he sends the plains to share; New colonies of birds to people air; And to their oozy beds the finny fish repair. In shipping such as this, the Irish kern And untaught Indian on the stream did glide; Ere sharp-keeled boats to stem the flood did learn, Or finlike oars did spread from either side. Id. They plough up the turf with a broad finned plough. Mortimer. While black with storms the ruffled ocean rolls, And from the fisher's art defends her finny shoals. Blackmore. With hairy springes we the birds betray; -Her playful sea-horse woos her soft commands, Sheridan, Oft from out it leaps The finny darter with the glittering scales, Who dwells and revels in thy glassy deeps; While chance some scattered water-lily sails Down where the shallower wave still tells its bubbling tales. See FINE. Byron. FI'NABLE. FI'NAL, adj. Fr. fin, final; Ital. fino; FINALLY, adv. Lat. finis, finalis. Ultimate; FINE, n. s. last; decisive; conclusive; mortal: finally follows these senses: fine, in this sense, is sometimes used as a substantive for end, conclusion; but more commonly with in, as in fine;' meaning, adverbially, to conclude; sum up all. Forsothe the most soveraine and finall perfeccion of man is in knowynge of a sothe, withouten any entent decevable, and in love of one very God, that is inchaungeable, that is to knowe, and love his creatour. Chaucer. At last resolved to work his final smart, He lifted up his hand, but back again did start. Spenser's Faerie Queene. Some things in such sort are allowed, that they be also required as necessary unto salvation, by way of direct, immediate, and proper necessity final; so that, without performance of them, they cannot by ordinary Your daughter, ere she seems as won, Desires this ring; appoints him an encounter; In fine, delivers me to fill the time, Herself most chastely absent. I There be many examples where sea-fights have be final to the war. Baco Henry spent his reign in establishing himself, a had neither leisure nor opportunity to undertake final conquest of Ireland. Davies on Irelan Not any house of noble English in Ireland was terly destroyed, or finally rooted out by the hand justice, but the house of Desmond only. The final absence of God is hell itself. So R Doubtlessly many men are finally lost, who yet no men's sins to answer for but their own. Your answering in the final cause, makes m Coll lieve you are at a loss for the efficient. FINALE, a town of the territory of the 1 of Sardinia, once belonging to the Genoese. is situated on the Di Ponente, at the end beautiful valley, and consists of two parts, a league distant from each other; the one ca Finale Borgo, standing on a hill, the other Fi Marino, situated along the shore. The 1 has an insecure harbour. Both towns are built, and are defended by three forts. The jacent country, formerly the marquisate of nale, is very productive in olives, oranges, fruits. It has repeatedly been the scen military operations, especially in the outse Buonaparte's career in April, 1796, and at time of the successes of the Austrians in 1 The population of the whole is 7000. Twe three miles north-east of Oneglia, and thirty south-west of Genoa. FINANCE', n. s. FINANCIAL, adj. FINANCIER', n. s. Fr. finance. Reve income; the science o tional income and expe ture: financial is relating to or respecting fina financier, one skilled in, or a collector of public revenue. Ba This sort of finance hath been increased. The residue of these ordinary finances be cast uncertain; as be the escheats and forfeitures. From To fine. In the iron 3, the second forge at the iron mills. ENCASTLE, the capital of Bottecourt , Virginia, and situated on the east side of Creek, a branch of James River. It is miles west of Richmond. age of ninety-five. He wrote on astronomy, a censurer. NCH (Heneage), first earl of Nottingham, Seke ye and 'ye schulen fynde, knocke ye and it i of Clarendon. In 1670 he became general, and succeeded the earl of sary in 1673, as lord-keeper. In two terwards he attained the chancellorship. t he was created earl of Nottingham, but ed his elevation little more than a year. has handed down to posterity his portrait om and Achitophel, under the character Several of his speeches on the trials edges of Charles I. have been published, also some of his parliamentary orations, ers as an orator having been highly re (Daniel), son of the preceding, born , was a member of the privy-council caused James II. to be proclaimed; he however, sat at the board, or visited the ring the reign of that monarch. On his on he exerted himself strongly in favor ency. But this did not prevent his secretary of state under William and though he is said to have declined the arship. In 1704 he went out of office, ed as one of the lords justices on the of queen Anne, in whom the administraaffairs was vested till George I.'s arrival. he retired from public life, and died in Saving been the author of an eloquent Whiston on the subject of the Trinity. CK (Thomas), a celebrated Danish atician, was a native of Flensburg in land, and received his education at After visiting other universities he basil, and there published a geometrical tich established his fame. He afterdied at Padua and Pisa, and returning took the degree of M.D. in 1587. travelled in Germany and the north of he settled at Gottorp as a physician. be was appointed professor of mathethe university of Copenhagen: in 1602 de professor of rhetoric; and in 1603 of medicine. He was likewise presiadministrator of the Royal Economical ad Corporation, and died in 1656, at the Gen. xxxi. 37. Canst thou by searching find out God? Canst thou Job ii. They are glad when they can find the grave. Id. iii. The fox that first this cause of grief did find, Hubberd. In my school days, when I had lost one shaft, I oft found both. Shakspeare. Merchant of Venice. Have found him guilty of high treasor. Shakspeare. We will bring the device to the bar, and crown thee for a finder of madmen. Id. Twelfth Night. We are the makers of manners, Kate; and the liberty that follows our places, stops the mouth of all find faults. Shakspeare. If he have several dwellings, let him sort them so, that what he wanteth in the one he may find in the other. Bacon. Id. They would enforce them to find as they would direct; and if they did not, convent, imprison, and fine them. A war with Spain is like to be lucrative, if we go roundly on at first; the war in continuance will find itself. Some lewd squeaking cryer, May gall the finder's conscience, if they meet. O yes! if any happy eye Id. Donne. This roving wanton shall descry, Let the finder surely know Crashaw How oft will he Of thy changed faith complain! And his fortunes find to be Cowley. "Tis but because there was no wind. Some men Id. |