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FILLET

Volume 2 · 108 words · 1771 Edition

in anatomy. See Froenum.

Filet, in architecture, a little square member, ornament, or moulding, used in divers places, and upon divers occasions, but generally as a crowning over a greater moulding.

heraldry, a kind of orle or bordure, containing only a third or fourth part of the breadth of the common bordure. It is supposed to be withdrawn inwards, and is of a different colour from the field. It runs quite round, near the edge, as a lace over a cloak.

the menage, the loins of a horse, which begin at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests.

FILLER-horse, one yoked immediately to a cart.