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FIL'LET, n. L. filum.

1. A little band to tie about the hair of the head.

A belt her waist, a fillet binds her hair.

2. The fleshy part of the thigh applied to veal as a fillet of veal.
3. Meat rolled together and tied round.
4. In architecture, a little square member or ornament used in divers places, but generally as a corona over a greater molding called also listel.
5. In heraldry, a kind of orle or bordure, containing only the third or fourth part of the breadth of the common bordure. it runs quite round near the edge, as a lace over a cloke.
6. Among painters and gilders, a little rule or reglet of leaf-gold, drawn over certain moldings, or on the edges of frames, pannels, &c., especially when painted white, by way of enrichment.
7. In the manege, the loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests.

FIL'LET,

1. to bind with a fillet or little band.
2. To adorn with an astragal. Exodus 38 .
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Entry for 'Fillet'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​f/fillet.html.
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