filling

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. An act or instance of filling.
2. n. Something used to fill a space, cavity, or container: a gold filling in a tooth.
3. n. An edible mixture used to fill pastries, sandwiches, or cakes: a pie filling. See Regional Note at frosting.
4. n. The horizontal threads that cross the warp in weaving; weft.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. That which fills, or fills up; anything used for occupying a vacant space, completing a structure or fabric, or stopping up a hole: as, the filling of a wall, of a pie, or of a tooth.
2. n. Specifically Carpeting of solid color, used to fill up recesses outside of bordered carpets, or to cover the whole floor where rugs are used.
3. n. The woof- or weft-thread of a woven fabric.
4. n. In needlework, any plain stitch which serves to fill considerable spaces.
5. n. In lace-making, the simple stitch which serves to cover the surface of parts of the pattern, as leaves, petals, and the like. Filling may either be plain or have a geometrical or simple pattern within itself, as described under escalier-lace.
6. n. In house-painting, a coat applied to fill up inequalities, etc., as those resulting from the grain of wood; also, the operation of obliterating such inequalities, as by the application of such a coat.
7. n. A raised embankment or elevated permanent way, as a part of a railroad, formed of loose stones, gravel, or other material.
8. Calculated to fill, satisfy, or satiate: as, a filling diet.
9. n. In wooden ship-building, a piece of timber placed between the frames to fill up the spaces and give greater strength. When placed in the bottom, between the floor-timbers, such pieces are called filling-timbers.

Wiktionary

1. adj. Of food, that satisfies the appetite by filling the stomach
2. n. Anything that is used to fill something.
3. n. The contents of a pie, etc.
4. n. dentistry A piece of amalgam used to fill a cavity in a tooth.
5. v. present participle of fill.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. That which is used to fill a cavity or any empty space, or to supply a deficiency
2. n. The woof in woven fabrics.
3. n. (Brewing) Prepared wort added to ale to cleanse it.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. flow into something (as a container)
2. n. any material that fills a space or container
3. n. the act of filling something
4. n. (dentistry) a dental appliance consisting of any of various substances (as metal or plastic) inserted into a prepared cavity in a tooth
5. n. a food mixture used to fill pastry or sandwiches etc.
6. n. the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving