Middle English Dictionary Entry
fīling(e ger.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | fīling(e ger.(1) Also vilinge, feling. |
| Etymology | From fīlen v.(1) |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The action of filing, smoothing, polishing; (b) particles rubbed off in filing, filings.
Associated quotations
a
- (1389) Doc.in Riley Mem.Lond.513 : Moldyng, turnyng, ffilyng, garnesshyng [by founders].
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)200b/a : Ferrugo is þe pouder þat falleþ fro þe iren wiþ filyng.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)86/6 : Þou clense þe rotid boon wiþ schauynge or wiþ filynge [vr. vylinge].
b
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)195b/b : Þe fylyng [vr. vilynge] of golde y take in mete or in drynke or in medicyne preserueþ and letteþ þe bredyng of lepre.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)200b/a : Filyng of poudre of Iren is cleped rubigo and also corrosio.
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)152a/a : Of þe lymayle .i. fylinge [L limatura] of stele.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)34/27 : Take fylynge of syluyr, of erne, of leed, of nel, and of gold.
- (a1475) Recipe Painting(2) in Archaeol.J.1 (Sln 73)153 : Vilynge of the copur.
- ?a1500 Henslow Recipes (Henslow)7/15 : To make whit water. Take alum plum and felyng of seluer [etc.].