a. [f. FULL a. + MOUTH sb. + -ED2.] Having a full mouth.
1. Of cattle: Having the mouth full of teeth; having the full complement of teeth.
1577. Harrison, England, I. iv. Now forasmuch as in such as bee full mouthed, eche chap hath 16 teeth at the least.
1685. Lond. Gaz., No. 1998/4. A brown bay Mare above 14 hands high, full Mouthd. Ibid. (1709), No. 4521/4. Stoln a blood-bay Mare full mouthd.
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.
1892. Salisbury Jrnl., 6 Aug., 4/1. 100 grand full-mouthed ewes.
† 2. Having the mouth filled with food; hence, Festive. transf. Of a sail: Filled with wind. Also fig. Obs.
1635. Quarles, Embl., V. vii. Epig. 271. Cheare up, my soule: call home thy spirts, and beare One bad Good-Friday; Full-mouthd Easters neare.
1645. G. Daniel, Poems, Wks. 1878, II. 12. Where, where resides content? Tis neither in Extent Of Power, nor full-mouthd gaine.
1645. Quarles, Sol. Recant., iv. 39. Force and bold-facd Wrong May hap to roar upon thy full-mouthd Sailes.
a. 1701. Sedley, Poems, Wks. 1722, I. 16.
Like murmring full-mouthd Isralites we stand, | |
And run on Rocks, to shun the Holy Land. |
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.
a. 16478. Joseph Beaumont, Psyche, II. 161.
Whom both the full-mouthd Elders hastenèd | |
To catch th Adulterer, who, said they, was fled. |
1698. J. Fryer, A New Account of East-India and Persia, 3134. Seeing me refractory to his Proceedings, he came to me full mouthd in the Kings Name.
1735. Somerville, The Chace, III. 410.
The full-mouthd Pack | |
With dreadful Consort thunder in his Rear. |
b. 1605. Narr. Murthers Sir J. Fitz (1860), 6. The fulmouthd report of infamous rumour.
1620. Quarles, Jonah, K j b. Had Boreas blown His full-mouthd blast.
c. 1645. Howell, Lett. (1655), II. 76. A full-mouthd Language she [German] is, and pronouncd with that strength as if one had bones in his tongue insteed of nerfs.
1708. Motteux, Rabelais, IV. lxvii. (1737), 276. With a full mouthd laugh.
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.
Hence Fullmouthedly adv., with a full mouth; uncompromisingly.
1887. Saintsbury, Hist. Elizab. Lit., iv. (1890), 154. Both the earlier Satires and The Scourge denounce lewd verse most fullmouthedly.