Definition: An orderly succession; a line; a row
Definition: A row of soldiers ranged one behind another; -- in
contradistinction to rank, which designates a row of soldiers standing
abreast; a number consisting the depth of a body of troops, which, in
the ordinary modern formation, consists of two men, the battalion
standing two deep, or in two ranks.
Definition: An orderly collection of papers, arranged in sequence or
classified for preservation and reference; as, files of letters or of
newspapers; this mail brings English files to the 15th instant.
Definition: The line, wire, or other contrivance, by which papers are put
and kept in order.
Definition: A roll or list.
Definition: Course of thought; thread of narration.
Definition: To set in order; to arrange, or lay away, esp. as papers
in a methodical manner for preservation and reverence; to place on
file; to insert in its proper place in an arranged body of papers.
Definition: To bring before a court or legislative body by presenting
proper papers in a regular way; as, to file a petition or bill.
Definition: To put upon the files or among the records of a court; to
note on (a paper) the fact date of its reception in court.
Definition: To march in a file or line, as soldiers, not abreast, but
one after another; -- generally with off.
Definition: A steel instrument, having cutting ridges or teeth, made by
indentation with a chisel, used for abrading or smoothing other
substances, as metals, wood, etc.
Definition: Anything employed to smooth, polish, or rasp, literally or
figuratively.
Definition: A shrewd or artful person.
Definition: To rub, smooth, or cut away, with a file; to sharpen with
a file; as, to file a saw or a tooth.
Definition: To smooth or polish as with a file.
Definition: To make foul; to defile.
