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decorate with a filet

a longitudinal slice or boned side of a fish

a boneless steak cut from the tenderloin of beef

a narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband

a longitudinal slice or boned side of a fish

a boneless steak cut from the tenderloin of beef

a narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband

cut into filets; "filet the fish"

A piece of lean meat without bone; sometimes, a long strip rolled together and tied.

A thin strip or ribbon; esp.: (a) A strip of metal from which coins are punched. (b) A strip of card clothing. (c) A thin projecting band or strip.

A concave filling in of a reentrant angle where two surfaces meet, forming a rounded corner.

A narrow flat member; especially, a flat molding separating other moldings; a reglet; also, the space between two flutings in a shaft. See Illust. of Base, and Column.

An ordinary equaling in breadth one fourth of the chief, to the lowest portion of which it corresponds in position.

The thread of a screw.

A border of broad or narrow lines of color or gilt.

The raised molding about the muzzle of a gun.

Any scantling smaller than a batten.

A fascia; a band of fibers; applied esp. to certain bands of white matter in the brain.

The loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests.

A piece of lean meat without bone; sometimes, a long strip rolled together and tied.

A thin strip or ribbon; esp.: (a) A strip of metal from which coins are punched. (b) A strip of card clothing. (c) A thin projecting band or strip.

A concave filling in of a reentrant angle where two surfaces meet, forming a rounded corner.

A narrow flat member; especially, a flat molding separating other moldings; a reglet; also, the space between two flutings in a shaft. See Illust. of Base, and Column.

An ordinary equaling in breadth one fourth of the chief, to the lowest portion of which it corresponds in position.

The thread of a screw.

A border of broad or narrow lines of color or gilt.

The raised molding about the muzzle of a gun.

Any scantling smaller than a batten.

A fascia; a band of fibers; applied esp. to certain bands of white matter in the brain.

The loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests.

A narrow band of metal, linen, silk, etc., worn around the forehead, for holding the hair; the fleshy part of the thigh; said of meat; a boneless lump of meat of fish served flat or rolled together and tied; a raised rim, narrow ornament, or molding.

To bind with a narrow band; ornament with a rim or molding; make into fillets, as veal, etc.

A little band to tie about the hair of the head; a muscle, or a piece of meat composed of muscles; especially, the fleshy part of the thigh applied chiefly to veal; as, a fillet of veal; meat rolled together and tied round; in arch. (a) a small moulding generally rectangular in section, and having the appearance of a narrow band, generally used to separate ornaments and mouldings; an annulet; a list; a listel; (b) the ridge between the flutes of a column-called also a FACET or FACETTE; in the manege, the loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests; in technology, in general, this word has a great many applications, such as in carp, a strip nailed to a wall or partition to support a shelf, a strip for a door to close against; in gilding, a band of gold-leaf on a picture-frame or elsewhere; in coining, a strip of metal rolled to a certain size; also the thread of a screw; a ring on the muzzle of a gun, etc.

To bind, furnish, or adorn with a fillet or little band. "He made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their chapiters, and filleted them."-Ex. xxxvii. 28.

A band; piece of meat from the thigh.

A narrow band, as for binding the hair.

A strip of lean meat.

Band of white matter in the brain; the lemniscus of the mid-brain.

Fascia, Laquens- f. of the Corpus Callosum, Gyrus fornicatus.

A loop-shaped bandage.

White band on outer side of superior cerebellar peduncles.

A bandage in the form of a loop. In obstetrics, a noose made of several thicknesses of sterile gauze bandage which is passed over the anterior thigh of the fetus in breech presentations for the purpose of making traction.

See lemniscus.

n. [French, Latin] A little band or twist, especially, one intended to tie about the hair of the head;—the fleshy part of the thigh;—meat rolled together and tied round;—a little square moulding; a listel;—the longitudinal ridge between the flutings of a Grecian column;—a kind of ordinary crossing the shield horizontally.

A band tied round the head or other part; the fleshy part of the thigh, applied commonly to veal; meat rolled together, and tied round; in architecture, a little member which appears in the ornaments and mouldings, and is otherwise called listel.