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<hw>Filch"ing*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>By pilfering or petty stealing.</def>

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<h1>File</h1> <Xpage=559>

<hw>File</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>file</ets> row (cf. Pr., Sp., Pg., & It. <ets>fila</ets>), LL. <ets>fila</ets>, fr. L. <ets>filum</ets> a thread. Cf. <er>Enfilade</er>, <er>Filament</er>, <er>Fillet</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>An orderly succession; a line; a row</def>; as: <sd>(a)</sd> <sd>(Mil)</sd> <def>A row of soldiers ranged one behind another; -- in contradistinction to <contr>rank</contr>, 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</def>.</def>

<note>&hand; The number of <i>files</i> 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 <i>files</i> in 4 ranks.

<i>Farrow.</i> </note>

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

<blockquote>It is upon a <b>file</b> with the duke's other letters. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<sd>(d)</sd> <def>A roll or list</def>. "A <i>file</i> of all the gentry."

<i>Shak.</i>

<-- (e) (computer) a collection of data on a recording medium treated as a unit for the purpose of recording or reading, accesible by use of a file name. -->

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Course of thought; thread of narration.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Let me resume the <b>file</b> of my narration. <i>Sir H. Wotton.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>File firing</col>, <cd>the act of firing by file, or each file independently of others.</cd> -- <col>File leader</col>, <cd>the soldier at the front of any file, who covers and leads those in rear of him.</cd> -- <col>File marching</col>, <cd>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.</cd> <i>Brande & C.</i> --<mcol><col>Indian file</col>, &or; <col>Single file</col></mcol>, <cd>a line of men marching one behind another; a single row.</cd> -- <col>On file</col>, <cd>preserved in an orderly collection.</cd> -- <col>Rank and file</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>The body of soldiers constituing the mass of an army, including corporals and privates.</cd></cs> <i>Wilhelm.</i> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>Those who constitute the bulk or working members of a party, society, etc., in distinction from the leaders.</cd></cs>

<h1>File</h1> <Xpage=559>

<hw>File</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Filed</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Filing</er>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>I would have my several courses and my dishes well <b>filed</b>. <i>Beau. & Fl.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To bring before a court or legislative body by presenting proper papers in a regular way; <as>as, to <ex>file</ex> a petition or bill</as>.</def>

<i>Burrill.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>To <b>file</b> a paper, on the part of a party, is to place it in the official custody of the clerk. To <b>file</b>, 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. <i>Burrill.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>File</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>filer</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Mil.)</fld> <def>To march in a file or line, as soldiers, not abreast, but one after another; -- generally with <i>off</i>.</def>

<cs><col>To file with</col>, <cd>to follow closely, as one soldier after another in file; to keep pace.</cd></cs>

<blockquote>My endeavors Have ever come too short of my desires, Yet <b>filed with</b> my abilities. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>File</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>fe\'a2l</ets>; akin to D. <ets>viji</ets>, OHG. <ets>f\'c6la</ets>, <ets>f\'c6hala</ets>, G. <ets>feile</ets>, Sw. <ets>fil</ets>, Dan. <ets>fiil</ets>, cf. Icel. <ets><?/<?/l</ets>, Russ. <ets>pila</ets>, and Skr. <ets>pi<?/</ets> to cut out, adorn; perh. akin to E. <ets>paint</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>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.</def>