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file vb.1: to rub smooth with a file Tw.N. III. iii. 5, Wint. IV. iii. [iv.] 626; (hence) to polish, refine neatly LLL. V. i. 12 “his tongue [is] f-d,” Tit. II. i. 123 “she shall our engines with advice,” Sonn. lxxxv. 4 “precious phrase by all the Muses f-d” (Q “fil'd”); in Sonn. lxxxvi. 13 some, after Malone, read “fil'd,” but Q has “fild=filled.”
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.
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