Definition of filling

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Filling (n.) That which is used to fill a cavity or any empty space, or to supply a deficiency; as, filling for a cavity in a tooth, a depression in a roadbed, the space between exterior and interior walls of masonry, the pores of open-grained wood, the space between the outer and inner planks of a vessel, etc..

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Twist :: Twist (n.) One of the threads of a warp, -- usually more tightly twisted than the filling..
Saponite :: Saponite (n.) A hydrous silicate of magnesia and alumina. It occurs in soft, soapy, amorphous masses, filling veins in serpentine and cavities in trap rock..
Impletion :: Impletion (n.) The act of filling, or the state of being full..
Fillet :: Fillet (n.) A concave filling in of a reentrant angle where two surfaces meet, forming a rounded corner..
Eking :: Eking (v. t.) A lengthening or filling piece to make good a deficiency in length.
Grouting :: Grouting (n.) The process of filling in or finishing with grout; also, the grout thus filled in..
Stop :: Stop (v. t.) To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound..
Bunt :: Bunt (n.) A fungus (Ustilago foetida) which affects the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a fetid dust; -- also called pepperbrand..
Filler :: Filler (n.) One who, or that which, fills; something used for filling..
Anaplerotic :: Anaplerotic (a.) Filling up; promoting granulation of wounds or ulcers.
Choke :: Choke (v. t.) To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up.
Backjoint :: Backjoint (n.) A rebate or chase in masonry left to receive a permanent slab or other filling.
Discharge :: Discharge (v. t.) To throw off the obligation of, as a duty or debt; to relieve one's self of, by fulfilling conditions, performing duty, trust, and the like; hence, to perform or execute, as an office, or part..
Charlotte :: Charlotte (n.) A kind of pie or pudding made by lining a dish with slices of bread, and filling it with bread soaked in milk, and baked..
Cram :: Cram (v. t.) To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity; as, to cram anything into a basket; to cram a room with people..
Flooding :: Flooding (n.) The filling or covering with water or other fluid; overflow; inundation; the filling anything to excess.
Tick :: Tick (n.) The cover, or case, of a bed, mattress, etc., which contains the straw, feathers, hair, or other filling..
Vein :: Vein (n.) A narrow mass of rock intersecting other rocks, and filling inclined or vertical fissures not corresponding with the stratification; a lode; a dike; -- often limited, in the language of miners, to a mineral vein or lode, that is, to a vein which contains useful minerals or ores..
Filling :: Filling (n.) Prepared wort added to ale to cleanse it.
Oppletion :: Oppletion (n.) The act of filling up, or the state of being filled up; fullness..
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