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fillet (medicine)


fillet


1. A little band, especially one intended to encircle the hair of the head. "A belt her waist, a fillet binds her hair." (Pope)

2. A piece of lean meat without bone; sometimes, a long strip rolled together and tied.

A fillet of beef is the under side of the sirlom; also called tenderloin. A fillet of veal or mutton is the fleshy part of the thigh. A fillet of fish is a slice of flat fish without bone. "Fillet of a fenny snake."

3. A thin strip or ribbon; especially., A strip of metal from which coins are punched. A strip of card clothing. A thin projecting band or strip.

4. <machinery> A concave filling in of a reentrant angle where two surfaces meet, forming a rounded corner.

5. A narrow flat member; especially, a flat molding separating other moldings; a reglet; also, the space between two flutings in a shaft.

6. An ordinary equaling in breadth one fourth of the chief, to the lowest portion of which it corresponds in position.

7. <mechanics> The thread of a screw.

8. A border of broad or narrow lines of colour or gilt.

9. The raised molding about the muzzle of a gun.

10. Any scantling smaller than a batten.

11. <anatomy> A fascia; a band of fibres; applied especially. To certain bands of white matter in the brain.

12. The loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests. Arris fillet. See Arris.

Origin: OE. Filet, felet, fr. OF. Filet thread, fillet of meat, dim. Of fil a thread, fr. L. Filum. See Fille a row.

Source: Websters Dictionary