Fĭl'a-cer, n.

n. [O. Eng. filace, a file, or thread, on which the records of the courts of justice were strung, from Fr. filasse, tow of flax or hemp, from Lat. filum, thread; Norm. Fr. filicer.] (Eng. Law.) An officer in the English Court of Common Pleas, or of the Queen’s Bench;—so called from filing the writs on which he made out process. The office is now abolished. Burrill.