Fillet

·noun The thread of a screw.

II. Fillet ·noun Any scantling smaller than a batten.

III. Fillet ·vt To bind, furnish, or adorn with a fillet.

IV. Fillet ·noun The raised molding about the muzzle of a gun.

V. Fillet ·noun A border of broad or narrow lines of color or gilt.

VI. Fillet ·noun A little band, especially one intended to encircle the hair of the head.

VII. Fillet ·noun A piece of lean meat without bone; sometimes, a long strip rolled together and tied.

VIII. Fillet ·noun A fascia; a band of fibers; applied ·esp. to certain bands of white matter in the brain.

IX. Fillet ·noun The loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests.

X. Fillet ·noun A concave filling in of a reentrant angle where two surfaces meet, forming a rounded corner.

XI. Fillet ·noun An ordinary equaling in breadth one fourth of the chief, to the lowest portion of which it corresponds in position.

XII. Fillet ·noun A thin strip or ribbon; ·esp.: (a) A strip of metal from which coins are punched. (b) A strip of card clothing. (c) A thin projecting band or strip.

XIII. Fillet ·noun A narrow flat member; especially, a flat molding separating other moldings; a reglet; also, the space between two flutings in a shaft. ·see ·Illust. of Base, and Column.