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n. See Affiliation. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being affiliated to or on, or connected with in origin. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Affiliated p. pr. & vb. n. Affiliating ] [ LL. adfiliare, affiliare, to adopt as son; ad + filius son: cf. F. affilier. ] 1. To adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally. [ 1913 Webster ]

Is the soul affiliated to God, or is it estranged and in rebellion? I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To fix the paternity of; -- said of an illegitimate child; as, to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to. [ 1913 Webster ]

How do these facts tend to affiliate the faculty of hearing upon the aboriginal vegetative processes? H. Spencer. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To attach (to) or unite (with); to receive into a society as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc.; -- followed by to or with. [ 1913 Webster ]

Affiliated societies, societies connected with a central society, or with each other. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To connect or associate one's self; -- followed by with; as, they affiliate with no party. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. 1 being joined in close association affiliated clubs
Syn. -- attached, connected [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. affiliation, LL. affiliatio. ] 1. Adoption; association or reception as a member in or of the same family or society. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) The establishment or ascertaining of parentage; the assignment of a child, as a bastard, to its father; filiation. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Connection in the way of descent. H. Spencer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an order of fossil gymnospermous trees or climbing plants from the Devonian: seed ferns.
Syn. -- order Cycadofilicales, Lyginopteridales, order Lyginopteridales. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. de- + filius son. ] Abstraction of a child from its parents. Lamb. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The process of smooth filing by working the file sidewise instead of lengthwise. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. filialis, fr. filius son, filia daughter; akin to e. female, feminine. Cf. Fitz. ] 1. Of or pertaining to a son or daughter; becoming to a child in relation to his parents; as, filial obedience. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Bearing the relation of a child. [ 1913 Webster ]

And thus the filial Godhead answering spoke. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a filial manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To adopt as son or daughter; to establish filiation between. [ R. ] Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. filiatio, fr. L. filius son: cf. F. filiation. See Filial. ] 1. The relationship of a son or child to a parent, esp. to a father. [ 1913 Webster ]

The relation of paternity and filiation. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) The assignment of a bastard child to some one as its father; affiliation. Smart. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Descent from, or as if from, a parent; relationship like that of a son; as, to determine the filiation of a language. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

4. One that is derived from a parent or source; an offshoot; as, the filiations are from a common stock. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Gael. feileadhbeag, i. e., little kilt; feileadh kilt + beag little, small; cf. filleadh a plait, fold. ] Same as Kilt. [ Written also philibeg. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sp. flibuster, flibustero, corrupted fr. E. freebooter. See Freebooter. ] A lawless military adventurer, especially one in quest of plunder; a freebooter; -- originally applied to buccaneers infesting the Spanish American coasts, but introduced into common English to designate the followers of Lopez in his expedition to Cuba in 1851, and those of Walker in his expedition to Nicaragua, in 1855. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Fillibustered p. pr. & vb. n. Filibustering. ] 1. To act as a filibuster, or military freebooter. Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To delay legislation, by dilatory motions or other artifices. [ political cant or slang, U.S. ] Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The characteristics or practices of a filibuster. Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Belonging to the Filices, r ferns. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. filix, -icis, a fern. ] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, ferns; as, filicic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. filius son, filia daughter + caedere to kill. ] The act of murdering a son or a daughter; also, parent who commits such a murder. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. filix, -icis, fern + -form: cf. F. filiciforme ] Shaped like a fern or like the parts of a fern leaf. Smart. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. filix, -icis, fern + -oid: cf. F. filicoiïde. ] (Bot.) Fernlike, either in form or in the nature of the method of reproduction. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A fernlike plant. Lindley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. filietas. ] The relation of a son to a father; sonship; -- the correlative of paternity. J. S. Mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. filum a thread + -ferous. ] Producing threads. Carpenter. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. filum thread + -form: cf. F. filiforme. ] Having the shape of a thread or filament; as, the filiform papillæ of the tongue; a filiform style or peduncle. See Illust. of Antennæ. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Sp. filigrana (cf. It. filigrana, E. filigrane), fr. L. filuma thread + granum grain. See File a row, and Grain, and cf. Filigree. ] Filigree. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

With her head . . . touches the crown of filigrane. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Filigreed. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Corrupted fr. filigrane. ] Ornamental work, formerly with grains or breads, but now composed of fine wire and used chiefly in decorating gold and silver to which the wire is soldered, being arranged in designs frequently of a delicate and intricate arabesque pattern. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Relating to, composed of, or resembling, work in filigree; as, a filigree basket. Hence: Fanciful; unsubstantial; merely decorative. [ 1913 Webster ]

You ask for reality, not fiction and filigree work. J. C. Shairp. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Adorned with filigree. Tatler. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A fragment or particle rubbed off by the act of filing; as, iron filings. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. (Eccl. Hist.) The Latin for, “and from the Son, ” equivalent to et filio, inserted by the third council of Toledo (a. d. 589) in the clause qui ex Patre procedit (who proceedeth from the Father) of the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed (a. d. 381), which makes a creed state that the Holy Ghost proceeds from the Son as well as from the Father. Hence, the doctrine itself (not admitted by the Eastern Church). [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ L. filum a thread + pendulus hanging, fr. pendēre to hang. ] (Bot.) Suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; -- said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootlets. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. of or relating to the Philippines or its people or customs.
Syn. -- Philippine. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. of or relating to the language of the Philippines.
Syn. -- Tagalog. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Filipinos /plu>. [ Sp. ] A native or inhabitant of the Philippine Islands, specif. one of Spanish descent or of mixed blood. [ wns=1 ]

Then there are Filipinos, -- “children of the country, ” they are called, -- who are supposed to be pure-blooded descendants of Spanish settlers. But there are few of them without some touch of Chinese or native blood. The Century. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. the official language of the Philippines, based on Tagalog. It draws its lexicon from other Philippine languages. [ wns=2 ]
Syn. -- Philippine. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Fort.) In the construction of fieldworks, the erection at proper intervals of wooden profiles, to show to the workmen the sectional form of the parapets at those points. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who takes profiles. [ 1913 Webster ]