a. [f. FULL a. + MOUTH sb. + -ED2.] Having a full mouth.

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  1.  Of cattle: Having the mouth full of teeth; having the full complement of teeth.

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1577.  Harrison, England, I. iv. Now forasmuch as in such as bee full mouthed, eche chap hath 16 teeth at the least.

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1685.  Lond. Gaz., No. 1998/4. A brown bay Mare above 14 hands high, full Mouth’d. Ibid. (1709), No. 4521/4. Stoln … a blood-bay Mare … full mouth’d.

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1846.  J. Baxter, Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4), II. 93. These six teeth tolerably developed … probably misled Mr. Parkinson … to say that at four years old cattle were full-mouthed.

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1892.  Salisbury Jrnl., 6 Aug., 4/1. 100 grand full-mouthed ewes.

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  † 2.  Having the mouth filled with food; hence, Festive. transf. Of a sail: Filled with wind. Also fig. Obs.

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1635.  Quarles, Embl., V. vii. Epig. 271. Cheare up, my soule: call home thy spir’ts, and beare One bad Good-Friday; Full-mouth’d Easter’s neare.

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1645.  G. Daniel, Poems, Wks. 1878, II. 12. Where, where resides content? ’Tis neither in Extent Of Power, nor full-mouth’d gaine.

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1645.  Quarles, Sol. Recant., iv. 39. Force and bold-fac’d Wrong May hap to roar upon thy full-mouth’d Sailes.

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a. 1701.  Sedley, Poems, Wks. 1722, I. 16.

        Like murm’ring full-mouth’d Isra’lites we stand,
And run on Rocks, to shun the Holy Land.

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  3.  a. Having a loud voice or sound; sounding or talking loud. Of dogs: Baying loudly. b. Produced or uttered with a loud voice or with violence.

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a.  1647–8.  Joseph Beaumont, Psyche, II. 161.

        Whom both the full-mouth’d Elders hastenèd
To catch th’ Adulterer, who, said they, was fled.

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1698.  J. Fryer, A New Account of East-India and Persia, 313–4. Seeing me refractory to his Proceedings, he came to me full mouth’d in the King’s Name.

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1735.  Somerville, The Chace, III. 410.

                    The full-mouth’d Pack
With dreadful Consort thunder in his Rear.

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  b.  1605.  Narr. Murthers Sir J. Fitz (1860), 6. The fulmouth’d report of infamous rumour.

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1620.  Quarles, Jonah, K j b. Had Boreas blown His full-mouth’d blast.

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c. 1645.  Howell, Lett. (1655), II. 76. A full-mouth’d Language she [German] is, and pronounc’d with that strength as if one had bones in his tongue insteed of nerfs.

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1708.  Motteux, Rabelais, IV. lxvii. (1737), 276. With a full mouth’d laugh.

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1856.  Kane, Arct. Expl., I. xxii. 279. These faithful servants generally bayed their full-mouthed welcome from afar off, but they always dashed in with a wild speed which made their outcry a direct precursor of their arrival.

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  Hence Fullmouthedly adv., with a full mouth; uncompromisingly.

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1887.  Saintsbury, Hist. Elizab. Lit., iv. (1890), 154. Both the earlier Satires and The Scourge denounce lewd verse most fullmouthedly.

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