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Definition of Fillies
1. filly [n] - See also: filly
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fillies
Literary usage of Fillies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sporting Magazine edited by [Anonymus AC02751662] (1833)
"fillies allowed Sib—Last three-quarters of a mile.—Five nibs. Air. ... Jib.
; fillies, ¡1st. 41b—About one mile and a half.—Fourteen subs. ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States by United States Supreme Court, William Cranch, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard, Jeremiah Sullivan Black (1905)
"And said defendant further avers, that the said Newsom falsely and fraudulently
represented to said defendant, that the said fillies were raised by himself, ..."
3. A History of the Percheron Horse: Including Hitherto Unpublished Data by Alvin Howard Sanders (1917)
"These fillies were carried through two winters and one summer—from late in the
... "These fillies were fed home-grown rations. The grain feeds were oats and ..."
4. British Farmer's Magazine (1867)
"Atkinson, Point Pleasant, Newcastle. Two- ron-oU colts or fillies, £5,1. ....
Three-year-old fillies for the field, £5, T. Hodgson, Broughton ; second, ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"Among others the Two Thousand Guineas at Newmarket for three-year-old colts and
fillies, and the One Thousand Guineas lor fillies, weye established in 1809 ..."
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