Word Finder - fillets

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A headband; a ribbon or other band used to tie the hair up, or keep a headdress in place, or for decoration.

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A fine strip of any material, in various technical uses.

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A heavy bead of waterproofing compound or sealant material generally installed at the point where vertical and horizontal surfaces meet.

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(drafting, CAD) A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an inside edge, added for a finished appearance and to break sharp edges.

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A strip or compact piece of meat or fish from which any bones and skin and feathers have been removed.

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A fine flat moulding/molding used as separation between coarser mouldings.

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The space between two flutings in a shaft.

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An ordinary equal in breadth to one quarter of the chief, to the lowest portion of which it corresponds in position.

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The thread of a screw.

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A colored or gilded border.

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The raised moulding around the muzzle of a gun.

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Any scantling smaller than a batten.

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A fascia; a band of fibres; applied especially to certain bands of white matter in the brain.

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

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To slice, bone or make into fillets.

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To apply, create, or specify a rounded or filled corner to.

The fillets are placed on an endless chain which moves slowly through the furnace, returning underneath.

The result is that so long as the fillets are hot they are kept from contact with the air and blackening of the metal is prevented.

In some mints the drag-bench or draw-bench is used after the rolls to equalize the thickness of the fillets.

In the case of very large silver coins only one blank is cut in the width of the fillet, but bronze fillets are made wider so that three penny blanks are cut out at each stroke of the machine.

Mitra, even as late as the 15th century, retained its simple meaning of cap (see Du Cange, Glossarium, s.v.); to Isidore of Seville it is specifically a woman's cap. Infula, which in late ecclesiastical usage was to be confined to mitre (and its dependent bands) and chasuble, meant originally a piece of cloth, or the sacred fillets used in pagan worship, and later on came to be used of any ecclesiastical vestment, and there is no evidence for its specific application to the liturgical head-dress earlier than the 12th century.

Ask for the current chef's special, where you may get to sample delicacies such as kung pao baby lobster and sea bass fillets.

The Pharaoh's characteristic crown (or crowns) symbolized his royal domains, the sacred uraeus marked his divine ancestry, and he sometimes appeared in the costume of the gods with their fillets adorned with double feathers and horns.

Delphi also contained the "Omphalos," a sacred stone bound with fillets, supposed to mark the centre of the earth.

In some mints the fillets are annealed frequently, the fillets for one-mark pieces at the Berlin mint, for example, being annealed four times in the course of rolling.