Part 4299

<note>&hand; A <i>file</i> differs from a <i>rasp</i> 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.</note>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Anything employed to smooth, polish, or rasp, literally or figuratively.</def>

<blockquote>Mock the nice touches of the critic's <b>file</b>. <i>Akenside.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A shrewd or artful person.</def> <mark>[Slang]</mark>

<i>Fielding.</i>

<blockquote>Will is an old <b>file</b> spite of his smooth face. <i>Thackeray.</i></blockquote>

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

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

<hw>File</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To rub, smooth, or cut away, with a file; to sharpen with a file; <as>as, to <ex>file</ex> a saw or a tooth</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To smooth or polish as with a file.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<blockquote><b>File</b> your tongue to a little more courtesy.Sir W.Scott.

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

<hw>File</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>fulen</ets>, <ets>filen</ets>, <ets>foulen</ets>, AS. <ets>f<?/lan</ets>, fr. f<?/l foul. See <er>Foul</er>, and cf. <er>Defile</er>, <er>v</er>.<er>t</er>.]</ety> <def>To make f<?/ul; to defile.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>All his hairy breast with blood was <b>filed</b>.<b>Spenser</b>.

<blockquote>For Banquo's issue have I <b>filed</b> mind.Shak.

<h1>Filefish</h1> <Xpage=559>

<hw>File"fish`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>Any plectognath fish of the genera <i>Monacanthus</i>, <i>Alutera</i>, <i>balistes</i>, and allied genera; -- so called on account of the roughly granulated skin, which is sometimes used in place of sandpaper.</def>

<h1>Filemot</h1> <Xpage=559>

<hw>Fil"e*mot</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <er>Feullemort</er>.</def>

<i>Swift.</i>

<h1>Filer</h1> <Xpage=559>

<hw>Fil"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who works with a file.</def>

<h1>Filial</h1> <Xpage=559>

<hw>Fil"ial</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>filialis</ets>, fr. <ets>filius</ets> son, <ets>filia</ets> daughter; akin to e. <ets>female</ets>, <ets>feminine</ets>. Cf. <er>Fitz</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Of or pertaining to a son or daughter; becoming to a child in relation to his parents; <as>as, <ex>filial</ex> obedience</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Bearing the relation of a child.</def>

<blockquote>And thus the <b>filial</b> Godhead answering spoke. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Filially</h1> <Xpage=559>