FILOSE
Fi"lose`, a. Etym: [L. filum a thread.]
Defn: Terminating in a threadlike process.
FILOSELLE
Fil`o*selle", n. [F., floss silk.]
Defn: A kind of silk thread less glossy than floss, and spun from coarser material. It is much used in embroidery instead of floss.
FILS
Fils, n. [F., fr. L. filius. See Filial.]
Defn: Son; — sometimes used after a French proper name to distinguish a son from his father, as, Alexandre Dumas, fils.
FILTER Fil"ter, n. Etym: [F. filtre, the same word as feutre felt, LL. filtrum, feltrum, felt, fulled wool, this being used for straining liquors. See Feuter.]
Defn: Any porous substance, as cloth, paper, sand, or charcoal, through which water or other liquid may passed to cleanse it from the solid or impure matter held in suspension; a chamber or device containing such substance; a strainer; also, a similar device for purifying air. Filter bed, a pond, the bottom of which is a filter composed of sand gravel. — Filter gallery, an underground gallery or tunnel, alongside of a stream, to collect the water that filters through the intervening sand and gravel; — called also infiltration gallery.
FILTER
Fil"ter, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Filtered; p. pr. & vb. n. Filtering]
Etym: [Cf. F. filter. See Filter, n., and cf. Filtrate.]
Defn: To purify or defecate, as water or other liquid, by causing it to pass through a filter. Filtering paper, or Filter paper, a porous unsized paper, for filtering.