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, v.t. 1. to bind with a fillet or little band.2. To adorn with an astragal. Ex. 38.
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