or Filet.** See Architecture. Index.

**Fillet,** in 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 It is supposed to be withdrawn inwards, and is of a different colour from that of the field. It runs quite round, near the edge, as a lace over a cloak.

Fillets is also used among painters, gilders, and others, for a little rule or reglet of leaf gold, drawn over certain mouldings, or on the edges of frames, panels, and the like, especially when painted white, by way of enrichment.

**Fillets,** in the Manège, are the loins of a horse, which begin at the place where the hinder part of the saddle usually rests.

**Film,** a thin skin or pellicle. In plants it signifies that thin woody skin which separates the seeds in the pods, and keeps them apart.

**FILOTI,** a town of the Turkish province Yanina, and the capital of a district of the same name. It contains