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{ ‖ ‖ } n. [ Mex. Sp., fr. Sp. alfiler pin. ] Same as Alfilaria. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ ‖‖ } n. [ Ar. ] A caravan of travelers; a military supply train or government caravan; a string of pack horses. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. & t. to register as a candidate for more than one political party in the same election. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Defiled p. pr. & vb. n. Defiling. ] [ F. défiler; pref. dé-, for des- (L. dis-) + file a row or line. See File a row. ] To march off in a line, file by file; to file off. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. (Mil.) Same as Defilade. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. défilé, fr. défiler to defile. ] 1. Any narrow passage or gorge in which troops can march only in a file, or with a narrow front; a long, narrow pass between hills, rocks, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mil.) The act of defilading a fortress, or of raising the exterior works in order to protect the interior. See Defilade. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ OE. defoulen, -foilen, to tread down, OF. defouler; de- + fouler to trample (see Full, v. t.), and OE. defoulen to foul (influenced in form by the older verb defoilen). See File to defile, Foul, Defoul. ] 1. To make foul or impure; to make filthy; to dirty; to befoul; to pollute. [ 1913 Webster ]

They that touch pitch will be defiled. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To soil or sully; to tarnish, as reputation; to taint. [ 1913 Webster ]

He is . . . among the greatest prelates of this age, however his character may be defiled by . . . dirty hands. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To injure in purity of character; to corrupt. [ 1913 Webster ]

Defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt. Ezek. xx. 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To corrupt the chastity of; to debauch; to violate; to rape. [ 1913 Webster ]

The husband murder'd and the wife defiled. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To make ceremonially unclean; to pollute. [ 1913 Webster ]

That which dieth of itself, or is torn with beasts, he shall not eat to defile therewith. Lev. xxii. 8. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. morally blemished. [ archaic ]
Syn. -- maculate. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. (Religion) ritually unclean. Opposite of clean.
Syn. -- unclean, impure. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. défilement. See Defile ] (Mil.) The protection of the interior walls of a fortification from an enfilading fire, as by covering them, or by a high parapet on the exposed side. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From 3d Defile. ] The act of defiling, or state of being defiled, whether physically or morally; pollution; foulness; dirtiness; uncleanness. [ 1913 Webster ]

Defilements of the flesh. Hopkins. [ 1913 Webster ]

The chaste can not rake into such filth without danger of defilement. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who defiles; one who corrupts or violates; that which pollutes. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. a. [ F. enfiler to pierce, thread. ] (Her.) Having some object, as the head of a man or beast, impaled upon it; as, a sword which is said to be “enfiled of” the thing which it pierces. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. feól; akin to D. viji, OHG. fīla, fīhala, G. feile, Sw. fil, Dan. fiil, cf. Icel. þēl, Russ. pila, and Skr. piç to cut out, adorn; perh. akin to E. paint. ] 1. A steel instrument, having cutting ridges or teeth, made by indentation with a chisel, used for abrading or smoothing other substances, as metals, wood, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ A file differs from a rasp in having the furrows made by straight cuts of a chisel, either single or crossed, while the rasp has coarse, single teeth, raised by the pyramidal end of a triangular punch. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Anything employed to smooth, polish, or rasp, literally or figuratively. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mock the nice touches of the critic's file. Akenside. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A shrewd or artful person. [ Slang ] Fielding. [ 1913 Webster ]

Will is an old file in spite of his smooth face. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bastard file,
Cross file, etc. See under Bastard, Cross, etc. --
Cross-cut file, a file having two sets of teeth crossing obliquely. --
File blank, a steel blank shaped and ground ready for cutting to form a file. --
File cutter, a maker of files. --
Second-cut file, a file having teeth of a grade next finer than bastard. --
Single-cut file, a file having only one set of parallel teeth; a float. --
Smooth file, a file having teeth so fine as to make an almost smooth surface. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. file row (cf. Pr., Sp., Pg., & It. fila), LL. fila, fr. L. filum a thread. Cf. Enfilade, Filament, Fillet. ] 1. An orderly succession; a line; a row; as: (a) (Mil.) A row of soldiers ranged one behind another; -- in contradistinction to rank, which designates a row of soldiers standing abreast; a number consisting the depth of a body of troops, which, in the ordinary modern formation, consists of two men, the battalion standing two deep, or in two ranks. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The number of files in a company describes its width, as the number of ranks does its depth; thus, 100 men in “fours deep” would be spoken of as 25 files in 4 ranks. Farrow.

(b) An orderly collection of papers, arranged in sequence or classified for preservation and reference; as, files of letters or of newspapers; this mail brings English files to the 15th instant. (c) The line, wire, or other contrivance, by which papers are put and kept in order. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is upon a file with the duke's other letters. Shak.

(d) A roll or list. “A file of all the gentry.” Shak.

2. Course of thought; thread of narration. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Let me resume the file of my narration. Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (computers) a collection of data on a digital recording medium treated as a unit for the purpose of recording, reading, storage, or indexing; -- such a file is typically accessible by computer programs by the use of a file name. The data may be of any type codable digitally, such as simple ASCII-coded text, complex binary-coded data, or an executable program, or may be itself a collection of other files. [ PJC ]

File firing, the act of firing by file, or each file independently of others. --
File leader, the soldier at the front of any file, who covers and leads those in rear of him. --
File marching, the marching of a line two deep, when faced to the right or left, so that the front and rear rank march side by side. Brande & C. --
Indian file, or
Single file, a line of people marching one behind another; a single row. Also used adverbially; as, to march Indian file. --
On file, preserved in an orderly collection; recorded in some database. --
Rank and file. (a) The body of soldiers constituting the mass of an army, including corporals and privates. Wilhelm. (b) Those who constitute the bulk or working members of a party, society, etc., in distinction from the leaders. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Filed p. pr. & vb. n. Filing. ] 1. To set in order; to arrange, or lay away, esp. as papers in a methodical manner for preservation and reverence; to place on file; to insert in its proper place in an arranged body of papers. [ 1913 Webster ]

I would have my several courses and my dishes well filed. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To bring before a court or legislative body by presenting proper papers in a regular way; as, to file a petition or bill. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) To put upon the files or among the records of a court; to note on (a paper) the fact date of its reception in court. [ 1913 Webster ]

To file a paper, on the part of a party, is to place it in the official custody of the clerk. To file, on the part of the clerk, is to indorse upon the paper the date of its reception, and retain it in his office, subject to inspection by whomsoever it may concern. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Cf. F. filer. ] (Mil.) To march in a file or line, as soldiers, not abreast, but one after another; -- generally with off. [ 1913 Webster ]

To file with, to follow closely, as one soldier after another in file; to keep pace. [ 1913 Webster ]

My endeavors
Have ever come too short of my desires,
Yet filed with my abilities. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To rub, smooth, or cut away, with a file; to sharpen with a file; as, to file a saw or a tooth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To smooth or polish as with a file. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

File your tongue to a little more courtesy. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ OE. fulen, filen, foulen, AS. f&unr_;lan, fr. f&unr_;l foul. See Foul, and cf. Defile, v. t. ] To make foul; to defile. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

All his hairy breast with blood was filed. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

For Banquo's issue have I filed my mind. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Mil.) A commissioned or noncommissioned officer posted in the rear of a line, or on the flank of a column, of soldiers, to rectify mistakes and insure steadiness and promptness in the ranks. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Zool.) Any plectognath fish of the genera Monacanthus, Alutera, balistes, and allied genera; -- so called on account of the roughly granulated skin, which is sometimes used in place of sandpaper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Feullemort. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who works with a file. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To arrange in a file or rank; to place in order. [ Obs. ] Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (computers) A file that is used as the authority in a given job and that is relatively permanent.
Syn. -- master file. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Computers) A computer program which has been translated into machine language by a compiler and assembler, but not yet linked into an executable program; sometimes called an obj file, because its file name typically has the extension “obj” . [ PJC ]

n. [ It. profilo, fr. L. pro before + filum a thread, an outline, shape: cf. F. profil. See File arow, and cf. Purfle, Purl, a fringe. ] 1. An outline, or contour; as, the profile of an apple. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Paint & Sculp.) A human head represented sidewise, or in a side view; the side face or half face. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (a) (Arch.) A section of any member, made at right angles with its main lines, showing the exact shape of moldings and the like. (b) (Civil Engin.) A drawing exhibiting a vertical section of the ground along a surveyed line, or graded work, as of a railway, showing elevations, depressions, grades, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

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Profile paper (Civil Engin.), paper ruled with vertical and horizontal lines forming small oblong rectangles, adapted for drawing profiles. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Profiled p. pr. & vb. n. Profiling ] [ Cf. F. profiler, It. profilare. See Profile, n. ] 1. to draw the outline of; to draw in profile, as an architectural member. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mech.) To shape the outline of an object by passing a cutter around it. [ 1913 Webster ]

Profiling machine, a jigging machine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Purfle. ] A sort of ancient trimming of tinsel and thread for women's gowns; -- called also bobbinwork. [ Obs. ] Piers Plowman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. siflet. ] (Zool.) The six-shafted bird of paradise. See Paradise bird, under Paradise. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Undefiled. [ Obs. ] Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + file. ] To remove from a file or record. [ 1913 Webster ]