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Fillies

Filly \Fil"ly\, n.; pl. Fillies. [Cf. Icel. fylia, fr. foli foal. See Foal.]

  1. (Zo["o]l.) A female foal or colt; a young mare. Cf. Colt, Foal.

    Neighing in likeness of a filly foal.
    --Shak.

  2. A lively, spirited young girl. [Colloq.]
    --Addison.

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fillies

n. (filly English)

Usage examples of "fillies".

I'd shipped his three-year-old colts for him the previous day and was booked for fillies on the morrow.

Horses can smell death, you know, and I don't want those fillies upset.

I explained yet again about Kevin Keith Ogden, and I told him that Jericho Rich had already demanded a different box and driver for his fillies on the morrow.

The driver due to transfer Jericho Rich's six fillies to Newmarket had already arrived in the farmyard, as for some unspecified reason Michael Watermead had wanted them to leave his stable earlier in the morning than the load of two-year-olds the day before.

I explained to Nigel, the driver, that Michael wouldn't be sending any of his own lads to care for the fillies ('Jericho can whistle for favours, bloody man') but that a car with a couple of lads would be coming over from the destination trainer in Newmarket.

The only hiccup, a very minor one, seemed to have been that Michael Watermead's fillies had set off an hour and a half late to Newmarket.

Pour the contents up the noses of six fillies belonging to Jericho Rich?

Irene and any number of buxom nymphs and centaur fillies had similar figures?

The fillies had grown, ceased to nurse, and gave their names trustingly.

But if they were to breed a new race with just Tharna, Hylan, and the two fillies, it would take rather a long time.

He should have led the way, instead of letting fillies and foals do it!

The mares and shivering fillies stood spraddle-legged, heads hanging, as they stared desperately through eyes dark with the echoes of hell at the handful of foals they had somehow gotten back.

Both fillies hurried forward, and she clipped the halter around the quicker of the two and led it from the holding corral into the altering pen.

I sell them on if they’re any good, or lease them, especially fillies, if they’re well bred, so that I can either breed from them later or sell them as broodmares.