▪ I. † fille1 Obs.
[OE. fille, app. shortened from cerfille, chervil.]
? = chervil.
In Wr.-Wülcker 323 (c 1050) it glosses serpillum, which properly means thyme. Halliwell's Dict. has ‘Fill, the plant Restharrow’, but gives no authority.
| c 1000 Sax. Leechd. 34 Fille and finule. a 1310 in Wright Lyric P. xiii, The fenyl ant the fille. |
▪ II. † fille2 Obs.
[a. F. feuille.]
1. A leaf.
| c 1450 Med. Rec. in Thornton Rom. p. xxxvi, Take vervayne or vetoyne, or filles of wormod, and make lee therof. |
2. As the type of something worthless. [Perh. another word.]
| 1297 R. Glouc. (1724) 297 Al nas worþ afylle. c 1305 Pilate 87 in E.E.P. (1862) 113 Pilatus..ne ȝaf noȝt worþ afille. |