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Filling(medicine)
filling(1)(dictionary)
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Picadillo Filling(recipes)
filling 1, adjective(dictionary)

filling(2) (iou)



filling noun. ME.
[from FILL verb + -ING1.]
The action of FILL verb. Also filling-in, filling-up, etc. ME.
T. Chalmers Such a filling up of the time as will keep you away from the evil communications.
Something which fills or is used to fill a space or hole, stop up a gap, etc.; spec. (a) stones and rubble used to make up a bank or wall; (b) (chiefly US) weft; (c) (a quantity of) material used to fill a sandwich etc.; (d) cement, gold, etc., used to fill a cavity in a tooth; (a tooth filled with) a quantity of such material. LME.
D. Jacobson She will make pancakes, with a filling of hot, spiced quince. F. Smyth The teeth..were in perfect condition apart from a single amalgam filling.
b. Extraneous or inferior material used to add bulk or fill space. M17.
Swift The prefaces of Dryden..meerly writ at first for filling To raise the volume's price a shilling.
Comb.: filling station an establishment selling petrol etc. to motorists.