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fillet

  [fil-it; usually fi-ley for 1, 10]
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–noun
1. Cookery.
a. a boneless cut or slice of meat or fish, esp. the beef tenderloin.
b. a piece of veal or other meat boned, rolled, and tied for roasting.
2. a narrow band of ribbon or the like worn around the head, usually as an ornament; headband.
3. any narrow strip, as wood or metal.
4. a strip of any material used for binding.
5. Bookbinding.
a. a decorative line impressed on a book cover, usually at the top and bottom of the back.
b. a rolling tool for impressing such lines.
6. Architecture.
a. Also called list. a narrow flat molding or area, raised or sunk between larger moldings or areas.
b. a narrow portion of the surface of a column left between adjoining flutes.
7. Anatomy. lemniscus.
8. a raised rim or ridge, as a ring on the muzzle of a gun.
9. Metallurgy. a concave strip forming a rounded interior angle in a foundry pattern.
–verb (used with object)
10. Cookery.
a. to cut or prepare (meat or fish) as a fillet.
b. to cut fillets from.
11. to bind or adorn with or as if with a fillet.
12. Machinery. to round off (an interior angle) with a fillet.
Also, filet (for defs. 1, 10).

Origin:
1300–50; ME filet < AF, MF, equiv. to fil thread + -et -et

lem⋅nis⋅cus

  [lem-nis-kuhs]
–noun, plural -nis⋅ci  [-nis-ahy, -nis-kee] . Anatomy.
a band of fibers, esp. of white nerve fibers in the brain.
Also called fillet, laqueus.

Origin:
1840–50; < NL, special use of L lēmniscus pendent ribbon < Gk lēmnískos ribbon
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fil·let   (fĭl'ĭt)   
n.  
  1. A narrow strip of ribbon or similar material, often worn as a headband.
  2. also fi·let (fĭ-lā', fĭl'ā')
    1. A strip or compact piece of boneless meat or fish, especially the beef tenderloin.
    2. A boneless strip of meat rolled and tied, as for roasting.
    3. A thin flat molding used as separation between or ornamentation for larger moldings.
    4. A ridge between the indentations of a fluted column.
  3. Architecture
    1. A thin flat molding used as separation between or ornamentation for larger moldings.
    2. A ridge between the indentations of a fluted column.
  4. A narrow decorative line impressed onto the cover of a book.
  5. Heraldry A narrow horizontal band placed in the lower fourth area of the chief.
  6. Anatomy A loop-shaped band of fibers, such as the lemniscus.
tr.v.   fil·let·ed, fil·let·ing, fil·lets
  1. To bind or decorate with or as if with a fillet.
  2. also fi·let (fĭ-lā', fĭl'ā') To slice, bone, or make into fillets.

[Middle English filet, from Old French, diminutive of fil, thread, from Latin fīlum; see gwhī- in Indo-European roots.]
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Fillets

Heb. hashukum, plur., joinings (Ex. 27:17; 38:17, 28), the rods by which the tops of the columns around the tabernacle court were joined together, and from which the curtains were suspended (Ex. 27:10, 11; 36:38). In Jer. 52:21 the rendering of a different word, _hut_, meaning a "thread," and designating a measuring-line of 12 cubits in length for the circumference of the copper pillars of Solomon's temple.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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