The commercial dictionary of trade products : manufacturing and technical terms, moneys, weights, and measures of all countries / by P.L. Simmonds.

  • Simmonds, P. L. (Peter Lund), 1814-1897.
Date:
1892
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Credit: The commercial dictionary of trade products : manufacturing and technical terms, moneys, weights, and measures of all countries / by P.L. Simmonds. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    FIL [152] FIN Fife, a very smnll wooden flute or pipe, giving acute piercing sounds. Fifkr, one h lio plays on a file, a musician In a regiment. Fife-bail, tlie rail round n ship's mast. JflG-CAKE, a preparation of figs and almonds, worked up into a hard paste, and pressed into round cakes like small cheeses, which is vended about the streets. Ficon, a Spanish eating-house. Figs, the dried fruit of Ficus carica, chiefly imported from the Mediterranean ports. In 1855 we received upwards of 2200 tons, nearly all of which were for home con- sumption. Figurante (French), a female ballet- dancer. Figure, a number; an artists model; any representation made of things in wood, stone, or other solid material; the steps of a dance; to goffer, to emboss, to ornament a stuff with gold, silk, &c. Figure-head, a carved bust, statue, or full- length figure, placed over tho cutwater or bow of a ship. Figure-maker, a modeller; one who prac-, tises the most refined part of the art of moulding, and casts busts, animals, and inanv ornaments consisting of branches, foliage, <&c; a maker of wooden anatomi- cal models for artists. Figured-muslin, a thin fabric in which a pattern, design, or representation is wrought. See Muslin. Figure-weaving, a process differing from plain weaving; patterns or designs being produced in the damask, velvet, or other stuff, by employing threads of different colours or of different appearance, in the warp or in tho weft. Fil (French), thread, hair, wire; a small twist of silk, hemp, or flax. Filadiere, a small flat-bottomed fishing- boat used on the river Garonne. Filament, a string; a long fibre or fino thread. _ . . , Filasse (French), hemp or flax ready to be spun. Filassif.r, a flax or hemp dresser. Filature, a silk-yarn, or cotton-twist, manufactory; a workshop where silk is reeled from cocoons and spun. Filbert, the fruit of the cultivated hazel (Corytus avellana alba), of which there aro several varieties grown in this country. Filch, to steal or purloin. File, a workman's metal rubbing or abrad- ing tool, of which there are many kinds, as rubber, handsaw, pitsaw. rattail, bastard half-round, &c The difference between files and rasps, is that tho latter have angular indentations, and the former havo only straight cuts. Files are of the first importance to every worker in metal from the engineer builder to the maker of the most delicate watch movement, they require great skill in hardening to prevent the - warping. Small files are maue of the bes cast stcSl and cut by hand; those of larger size are manufactured from ordi- nary steel, and usually machine-made; these are frequently deficient in ^their •' bite. Also the name for a rank or low as a flic of soldiers: also for a wire or string which retains and secures documents or receipts for reference. [silver. File' (French), fine wire-thread of gold or File-cutter, a maker of tiles. Filerie (French), a spinning-house where hemp or flux is spun ; a rope-walk. Filet, a small thread or fibre; a string or lace. FrLECR (French), a spinner, a wire drawer. Filings, fragments or raspings of metal, ivory, &c.; particles rubbed off in the process ot filing. Fille-de-chambre, a French chambermaid. Fillet, a band for the hair: a chine of meat; the fleshy part of the thigh, boned, rolled together, and tied round. Fillicree, Filigrane, Filagree Work, ornamental kinds of jewelry, statues, <fcc, made from delicate threads ol gold or sil- ver wire; the filaments being braided and festooned in various ways, according to the taste and design of the artist, and with a very light and beautiful effect. Fillings, a brewer's term for prepared wort, added in small quantities to casks of ale to cleanse it; the woof in weaving. Fillister, a plane used for making the outer part of a window sash fit for receiving tho glass. Filly, a young mare. * Filoche (French), a large rope used by miller3 and others. Filoseda (Spanish), a silk and worsted fabric. Filoselle, ferret, or floss silk; grograin- yarn. * , , Filotier (French), a dealer m thread. Filter, a small strainer of unsized paper used In chemical operations; an earthen- ware, or othervcssel, with a tap for purity- ing water, in a house or on shipboard. Filtering, the process of Btraming and purifying. , ,, Filter-maker, a potter; one who moulds and makes filters. Fin, a membraneous winglike appendage to fish; the trade name for a blade ot whale- bone : sharks' fins enter into eastern com- merce dried, being eaten as food. Finance (French), ready money or cash; a type in printing to imitate writing. Financier, a treasurer; an accountant; a capitalist or monicd man skilled m fin- ancial operations; a public officer who manages the funds or revenues of the Crown. , , , , Findings, the wax, thread, and tools which a journeyman shoemaker has to supply himself with for his work. Finding-stores, an American name for what are termed in England grindery- warehouses; shops where shoemakers tools, &c are vended. . Fine-arts, the arts of design, music, &c.; any business or pursuit requiring taste, ski'U, and judgment in the execution. Fine-drawing, tho art of sewing up cloth so finely, that the rent cannot be perceived. Fineeii (Scotch), to veneer. Finer?, a small forge used in making iron wire; showy articles of dress; jewolo, trinkets. &c