Full a., sb.³ and adv.

Forms: 1–7 ful, 3–5 fol(le, south. vol(le, 4–5 fulle, 6 Sc. fow, 8 Sc. fou, 1– full. [Com. Teut.: OE. full = OFris. fol, ful, OS. ful(l (Du. vol), OHG. fol(l (MHG. vol, mod.Ger. voll), ON. full-r (OSw. fuld-er, mod.Sw. full, Da. fuld), Goth. full-s:—OTeut. *follo-, fullo- :—OAryan *pl-nó, represented also in Lith. pilna-s, OSl. plŭnŭ; cf. also the synonymous Skr. pūrná, L. plēnus, OIr. lán, Welsh llawn (:—pre-Celtic *plāno-, plōno-), which though not formally identical contain the same root and suffix. From the Aryan root *pel-, pol-, pl, and its extended forms plē-, plō-, etc., are derived many words expressing the notion of abounding, filling, etc., as Skr. puru, Gr. πολύς (see FELE a.); Gr. πιμπλάναι to fill, πλήρης full, πλῆθος multitude, L. (com-, im-, op-, re-, sup-) plēre to fill, plūs more.

  In this and in several other words (Sievers, Ags. Gr., § 55), the OE. u represents WGer. o; when this is the case a labial consonant is almost always present, but the precise conditions have not been determined.]

  A.  adj.

  1.  Having within its limits all it will hold; having no space empty; replete. Const. of (in OE. with genitive). Often with intensive phrases, as full as an egg, full to the brim (see BRIM sb.² 4 b), full to overflowing, full up (colloq.), etc. For advbl. phrase full mouth: see MOUTH.

a. 1000.  Judith, 19. Þær wæron bollan steape boren … swylce eac bunan and orcas fulle flettsittendum.

c. 1290.  S. Eng. Leg., I. 193/45. A fat þare stod fol of baþe-water.

a. 1300.  E. E. Psalter, cxliii. 14. Cleues ofe þa fulle ere yhite [promptuaria eorum plena].

c. 1400.  Lanfranc’s Cirurg., 41. Heelde into þe hoole … hoot oile of roses … til al þe wounde e ful.

c. 1483.  Caxton, Vocab., 12. Hit is of a fulle fatte.

1563.  W. Fulke, Meteors (1640), 56. The ignorant in Philosophy must be admonished, that all things are full, nothing is empty, for nature abhorreth emptinesse.

1590.  Nashe, Pasquil’s Apol., I. C ij b. To feaste among the Gentlemen of the Shyre, and retyre to theyr charge when the whole weeke is wasted in pleasure, to preache to Gods people vpon a full stomach.

1597.  Shaks., 2 Hen. IV., II. iv. 68. Can a weake emptie Vessel beare such a huge full Hogs-head?

1648.  Gage, West Ind., vi. 19. Filling them [boats] so fast and so full, that some sunke.

1694.  Acc. Sev. Late Voy., II. (1711), 175. When many Whales float on the Sea, they [birds] have their Bellies full.

1698.  J. Fryer, A New Account of East-India and Persia, 112. They are allowed a Board plastered over, which with Cotton they wipe out, when full, as we do from Slates or Table-Books.

1710.  Steele, Tatler, No. 187, ¶ 5. The full House which is to be at Othello on Thursday.

1711.  Budgell, Spect., No. 77, ¶ 9. When he is playing at Backgammon, he calls for a full glass of Wine and Water.

1712.  Arbuthnot, John Bull, III. iv. 49. When she came into any full assembly.

1764.  Foote, Patron, III. Wks. 1799, I. 353. Full … As an egg.

1786.  Burns, Dream, 131. I hae seen their coggie fou.

1823.  Scoresby, Jrnl. Whale Fishery, 126. An ancient flying, a signal indicative in the whale-fishery of a full-ship.

1866.  G. Macdonald, Ann. Q. Neighb., iii. (1878), 32. A few full sacks, tied tight at the mouth—they always look to me as if Joseph’s silver cup were just inside—stood about.

1870.  L’Estrange, Miss Mitford, I. ii. 37. The coach was completely full.

1891.  E. Peacock, Narcissa Brendon, I. 131. All the stables were full.

1892.  Daily News, 18 Oct., 5/3. Because they [cemeteries] are full up … this additional one is required.

  b.  Locutions in which full is in concord with a preceding sb. denoting a receptacle are sometimes used transf. to signify either (1) the contents viewed with respect to quantity, or (2) a quantity equal to the capacity of the receptacle. In the latter of these applications, this usage is now almost superseded by the practice of forming derivatives ad libitum with the suffix -FUL 2.

c. 1000.  Sax. Leechd., II. 268. Sele þonne cælic fulne to drincanne.

c. 1205.  Lay., 1285. In þære sæ heo funden vtlawen … fifti scipen fulle. Ibid., 6470. A kene sweord and enne koker fulne flan.

1563.  W. Fulke, Meteors (1640), 52. He that hath seene an egges shell full of dew drawn up by the Sunne into the Air, in a May morning, will not think it incredible, that Wheat and other Graine should be drawne up in much hotter Countries then ours is.

1884.  G. Moore, Mummer’s Wife (1887), 179. A theatrefull of people.

  c.  fig. (see 2 c); esp. of the heart: Overcharged with emotion, ready to overflow.

c. 1300.  Cursor M., 19404 (Edin.). Steuin of strenþe and godis grace was fillid ful in ilk a place.

1604.  Shaks., Oth., V. ii. 175. Speake, for my heart is full.

1719.  De Foe, Crusoe, I. i. His heart was so full, he could say no more.

1797.  Mrs. Radcliffe, Italian, xii. My heart was never so full in my life.

  † d.  Of an office: Occupied, not vacant. Const. of Obs.

1574.  trans. Littleton’s Tenures, 38 b. Where a villeyne purchasethe the avowson of a Church full of an incumbent.

a. 1734.  North, Lives (1826), II. 11. He laid his eye on the place of Chief Justice of Chester, which was full of Sir Job Charleton.

  e.  Of an animal: Pregnant. Of a fish; Charged with roe. † Full of (foal): big with.

a. 1618.  Rates Merchandize, G i b. Hearings white, full, or shotten, the barrell viijs. iiijd.

1722.  Lond. Gaz., No. 6120/4. A large Black Mare … very full of Foal.

1864.  Mitchell, Herring, 114. If the herrings are assorted, namely, the full herrings (herrings full of milt and roe) separated from matjes (herrings with the milt and roe of a small size), and these separated from ‘ylen,’ empty or shotten herrings, the fishery officer has authority to apply a brand with the word ‘full’ to the first, and the word ‘maties’ to the second description … in addition to the crown brand.

  † f.  Having the outline filled in; solid, not open. Full flower (= F. fleur pleine) = ‘double flower.’

1597.  Morley, Introd. Mus., Annot. There were … foure maners of pricking, one al blacke, which they tearmed blacke full, another which we vse now which they called black void, the third all red, which they called red ful [etc.].

1683.  Robinson, in Ray’s Corr. (1848), 137. It hath no full, or double flower.

1715.  Desaguliers, Fires Impr., 118. Make three openings in it … the space lm, which is 6 Inches wide, must be left full … leave qc open 6 Inches wide, bc and qy full, being of 6 Inches each.

  absol.  1703.  T. N., City & C. Purchaser, 128. Let the Doors, if possible, be right over one another, that the void may be upon the void, and the full upon the full.

  2.  a. Containing abundance of; plentifully charged, crowded. þ Rarely const. with.

a. 1000.  Sal. & Sat., 174 (Gr.). Hateþ ðonne heahcyning helle betynan, fyres fulle.

1297.  R. Glouc. (Rolls), 11. Engelonde is vol inoȝ of frut and ek of tren.

1340.  Ayenb., 28. Þet corn … is uol of frut and al ripe.

c. 1386.  Chaucer, Knt.’s T., 1288. A wrethe of gold … set ful of stones brighte.

c. 1400.  Lanfranc’s Cirurg., 53. But if þe membre þat was brusid be ful of senewis, as þe hand ouþer þe foot.

1519.  Horman, Vulg., xxxi. 257 a. The fylde was strowed full of caltroppis.

1582.  N. Licheheld, trans. Castanheda’s Conq. E. Ind., xl. 94. Great adders, which are very full of poison.

1613.  Purchas, Pilgrimage (1614), 341. Which the people take with boords bored full of holes.

1621.  Lady M. Wroth, Urania, 229. As full of spite and ill nature as a Spider with poyson.

1737.  H. Bracken, Farriery Impr. (1757), II. 147. Some Horses will be too full of flesh.

1849.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., I. 435–6. His bedchamber is full of Protestant clergymen.

1878.  Smiles, Robert Dick, vii. 76. The sky was full of fire.

  † b.  Formerly sometimes of a surface: Covered (with). Const. of. Obs.

1563.  W. Fulke, Meteors (1640), 36 b. The lidde will be all full of small drops of water.

1579.  Gosson, The Schoole of Abuse (Arb.), 54. We lay holde on his locks, turne him away with his backe full of stripes, and his hands loden with his owne amendes.

1583.  Hollyband, Campo di Fior, 133. Here be the dice. How full of dust they be.

1657.  R. Ligon, Barbadoes (1673), 75. The rind of a pure ash colour, full of wrinkles.

  c.  In non-material sense: Abounding (in), abundantly characterized (by). Const. of, occas. with (in OE. with genit. or instrumental).

a. 1000.  Cædmon’s Gen., 1292 (Gr.). He … ȝeseah unrihte eorðan fulle.

c. 1200.  Ormin, 1784. Crisstnedd þed … iss All full off haliȝdomess.

c. 1250.  Gen. & Ex., 110. Ouer ðat … An oðer heuene ful o blis.

c. 1320.  Sir Tristr., 1917. A loghe þai founden made, Was ful of gamen and play.

1340.  Hampole, Pr. Consc., 551. Þus may a man his bygynnyng se Ful of wrechednes and of caytifté.

1397.  Rolls of Parlt., III. 379/2. He that hathe ever bene ful of mercy and of grace to all his lyeges.

1513.  Douglas, Æneis, III. Prol. 13. Of uncouth dangeris this nixt buik hail is full.

1569.  Turberv., Trag. T. etc. (1587), 199. I found him full of amours euery where.

1611.  Bible, Acts xiii. 10. O full of all subtilty and all mischiefe.

1650.  Trapp, Comm., Deut. vi. 12. Full with Gods benefits.

1682.  Norris, Hierocles, 24. The fuller it is of labour & slavery.

1715.  Lady M. W. Montagu, Lett. (1837), II. 12. Your whole letter is full of mistakes.

1754.  Shebbeare, Matrimony (1766), I. 150. Mr. Sharply being retired, full with Self-applause of his deep Cunning.

1857.  Ld. Houghton, in Life (1891), II. xii. 18. M. Guizot is in great force, and full of political and literary gossip.

1878.  Morley, Carlyle, Crit. Misc., Ser. I. 200. The truth surely is that while the anxieties and dangers of the Catholic party in France increased after St. Bartholomew, whose dramatic horror has made its historic importance to be vastly exaggerated, the Protestant cause remained full of vitality, and the number of its adherents went on increasing until the Edict of Nantes.

  d.  A full man: (After Bacon) One whose mind is richly stored.

1597–8.  Bacon, Ess., Studies (Arb.), 10. Reading maketh a full man.

1868.  Lowell, Dryden, Pr. Wks. 1890, III. 105. For, like Johnson, Burke, and the full as distinguished from the learned men, he was always a random reader.

  3.  Engrossed with or absorbed in; fully occupied with the thought of (something). Now only with const. of. † Formerly also with that or infinitive.

1607.  Fenton, in Lismore Papers, Ser. II. (1887), I. 116. We are now so full to prouide for the daungers which the tyme doth threaten on all sides, that [etc.].

1633.  Bp. Hall, Hard Texts, 403. I … will make them a type of my Evangelicall Church; into which I will call all sorts of persons, even those that are most full, and most conscious of their owne infirmities, &c.

1657.  R. Ligon, Barbadoes (1673), 26. The length and breadth of this Island, I must deliver you only upon trust; for, I could not go my self about it, being full of other business.

1669.  Pepys, Diary, 24 Jan. The king seemed mighty full that we should have money to do all that we desired.

1737.  H. Bracken, Farriery Impr. (1757), II. 79. These Sort of Petit Maitres are so full of themselves, that they reject all wise Counsel.

1765.  Reid, Lett., in Wks. I. 43/1. Your friend … was very full of you when he was here.

1853.  Mrs. Carlyle, Lett., II. 238. I am full of business, owing to the sudden movements of the last two weeks.

1866.  Alger, The Solitudes of Nature and of Man, III. 130. The lonely man, if full, is quite likely to be full of himself.

  4.  Having eaten or drunk to repletion. (Cf. FOU.) Also full of food, wine, etc. Now arch. (and vulgar).

c. 1000.  Ags. Ps. lviii[i]. 15. Gif hi fulle ne beoð [hi] fela gnorniað.

1382.  Wyclif, Acts ii. 13. Thei ben ful of must.

c. 1400.  Lanfranc’s Cirurg., 229. And he schal not, whanne he is ful, slepe anoon þerupon.

1576.  A. Fleming, A Panoplie of Epistles, 290. Full of wine, & intoxicated with Bacchus berries, y^e they be drowned in drunkennes.

1583.  Hollyband, Campo di Fior, 43. Hast thou no liste to eat? Art thou full?

1611.  Bible, Prov. xxvii. 7. The full soule loatheth an honie combe: but to the hungry soule euery bitter thing is sweete.

1710.  Swift, Jrnl. to Stella, 7 Dec. I … have eaten cold pie … and I am full.

1737.  Ramsay, Scot. Prov. (1776), 33. He’s unco fou in his ain house that canna pike a bane in his neighbour’s.

1787.  ‘G. Gambado,’ Acad. Horsemen (1809), 26. Horses full of grass are very subject to scourings.

1875.  Dasent, Vikings, III. 176. So they ate and drank and drained the mead-horn once more, and, when they were all full, they made a raft.

  b.  Having one’s needs or appetite satisfied; having ‘had one’s fill’ of anything. Obs. exc. in the Hebraisms full of days, years, children.

c. 1175.  Lamb. Hom., 103. Heo [Auaricia] is helle iliche, forðon þet hi ha habbeð unafillendliche gredinesse, þet hi nefre ne beoð fulle.

c. 1230.  Hali Meid., 39. Upo hwas nebschaft þe engles ne beoð neauer fulle to bihalden.

1382.  Wyclif, Job xlii. 17. He diede old, and ful of daȝis.

1585.  T. Washington, trans. Nicholay’s Voy. Turkie, Ded. ¶ iij. An example of Iacob, an old man, & ful of yeres.

1611.  Bible, Ps. xvii. 14. They are full of children, and leaue the rest of their substance to their babes.

1715.  Tickell, Iliad, I. 292. I Full of Days was He; Two Ages past, he liv’d the Third to see.

1852.  Thackeray, Esmond, I. ii. The first Viscount Castlewood died full of years.

  c.  † Sated, weary of (obs.). Similarly in mod. colonial slang, full up (of).

1297.  R. Glouc. (1724), 32. Heo [Regan] was al ful of hym [Lear] er þe ȝeres ende.

c. 1320.  R. Brunne, Medit., 993. Ȝyf ȝe be ful of my der sone.

c. 1477.  Caxton, Jason, 21. Anone as ye haue enioyed her as litill as hit may be, ye shalbe wery and full of her.

1555.  Watreman, Fardle Facions, App. 322. He maye waxe full of the lawe, and vtterly contempne it.

1603.  Holland, Plutarch’s Mor., 418. The Athenians being full of him, tooke pleasure to raise slanders and contumelious reproches of him [Themistocles].

1611.  Bible, Isa. i. 11. To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices vnto me, sayth the LORD? I am full of the burnt offerings of rammes, and the fat of fedde beasts, and I delight not in the blood of bullockes, or of lambes, or of thee goates.

1625.  Bacon, Ess., Masques (Arb.), 539. The Alterations of Scenes, so it be quietly, and without Noise, are Things of great Beauty, and Pleasure: For they feed and relieue the Eye, before it be full of the same Obiect.

1890.  Boldrewood, Miner’s Right, xxiii. 213. She was ‘full up of the Oxley, which was a rowdy, disagreeable gold-field as ever she was on.’

1892.  E. Reeve, Homeward Bound, 33. The men … get tired, or as the colonial slang goes, ‘full up,’ soonest.

  † 5.  Abounding in wealth; amply supplied with means; also in weaker sense, having sufficient for one’s needs. Obs.

1585.  T. Washington, trans. Nicholay’s Voy. Turkie, II. iii. 74 b. The emperor chosen by such corruption being once rid, & voyd of money, those very same which had elected him slewe him for to haue a new one ful, & ready to giue, with whom in few daies after they delt as with the former.

1611.  Bible, Phil. iv. 18. I haue all, and abound. I am full.

1681.  W. Robertson, Phraseol. Gen. (1693), 651. He is a full man; Omnium rerum affluentibus copiis ditatur.

1683.  Salmon, Doron Med., I. 118. To act as earnestly and faithfully on the behalf of the Poor and Needy, where no recompence can be expected; as of the Rich and Full, where large and bountiful rewards are prostituted.

  6.  Abundant, amply sufficient, copious, satisfying, satisfactory. Said both of material and immaterial things.

c. 1000.  Ags. Gosp., Luke vi. 38. Syllað and eow byþ ȝeseald God ȝemet and full.

1052–1067.  Charter of Eadweard, in Cod. Dipl., IV. 211. Ic wille habban fullne dom of ðam menn.

a. 1300.  Cursor M., 9560. His witherwin him wroght ful wa.

c. 1400.  Lanfranc’s Cirurg., 37. Of þese mundificatyves þou schalt have a ful techinge in þe laste tretis.

1576.  A. Fleming, A Panoplie of Epistles, 342 note. He had full experience and proofe of his qualities in freendship, or else he woulde not haue vsed suche earnest wordes.

1630.  R. Johnson, Relations of the Most Famous Kingdoms, etc., 53. Of diets … that of Germany is full, or rather fulsome.

1638.  Sir R. Baker, trans. Letters of Mounsieur de Balzac (vol. III.), 9. Thus I doe but tast of that whereof you make full meales.

1655.  T. Stanley, Hist. Philos., I. (1701), 31/2.

1697.  Dryden, Virg. Georg., II. 756. The falling Mast For greedy Swine provides a full Repast.

1707.  Floyer, Physic. Pulse-Watch, 316. I must confess that I want a full Experience in these low Pulses, because I have not yet found any Pulse lower than 55 Beats in a Minute, and the Pulse rarely is found under 60.

1732.  Berkeley, Alciphr., II. § 7. Suppose you saw a fruit of a new untried kind; would you recommend it to your own Family to make a full meal of?

1884.  Church, Bacon, ii. 29. He turned his studies to full account.

  b.  Of an account or report, hence of a writer, etc.: Complete or abundant in detail.

1656.  Denham, Destr. Troy, Pref. Where my expressions are not so full as is.

1662.  Stillingfl., Orig. Sacr., I. ii. § 8. They who were so famed for wisdom and antiquity, should be able to give a full and exact account of themselves through all the ages of the world.

1712.  Berkeley, Pass. Obed., Wks. III. 139. I have endeavoured to be as full and clear as the usual length of these discourses would permit.

1845.  Graves, Rom. Law, in Encycl. Metrop., 778/1. For the basis of his Greek text, Contius took, as the best and fullest, the edition of Scrimger.

1866.  Lord Blackburn, in Hurlstone & Coltman’s Rep., IV. 275. The case is reported both by Salkeld, who argued it, in 6 Modern, and by Lord Raymond, whose report is the fullest.

1871.  Freeman, Hist. Ess., Ser. I. iv. 90. We might have expected him [Roger] to be very full on that part of his history; but, writing doubtless mainly for the monks of Pontigny, he says that he will not enlarge upon what every one knows, and cuts that part very short.

1882.  Pebody, Eng. Journalism, xx. 152. You will find in its columns all the latest and fullest telegrams from every part of the world where there is anything stirring that is of the slightest interest to Englishmen.

1884.  Sir E. E. Kay, in Law Times Rep., 26 April, 257/2. The audience are quite at liberty to take the fullest notes they like for their own personal convenience.

  7.  Complete, entire, perfect. † (To be) in full will to: quite ready, eager to. Also full point, stop, for which see those words.

O. E. Chron., an. 917. Þa land leode … ȝebrohton hie on fullum fleame.

a. 1000.  Boeth. Metr., xxi. 8. Sece him eft hræðe fulne friodom.

c. 1205.  Lay., 29047. We wulleð mid þe uehten mid fullere strenðen.

c. 1340.  Richard Rolle of Hampole, Prick of Conscience, 2609–2.

c. 1380.  Wyclif, Wks. (1880), 22. Þei were … in fulwille to suffre … for þe love of ihesu Crist.

1399.  Rolls of Parlt., III. 424/1. Whiche States … gafen hem full auctorite and power.

1417.  E. E. Wills (1882), 28. This testament is my volle & hole wille.

1551.  Recorde, Pathw. Knowl., II. xlii. Foure long squares … and one full square.

1563.  W. Fulke, Meteors (1640), 17. The red and ruddy Colours are seen in the morning and evening, when the light of the Sunne is not in his full force: for at other times of the day his light is too vehement.

1576.  A. Fleming, A Panoplie of Epistles, 240. Taking a view of our selues by this looking glasse to make full and iust account, that into the same fourme, wherof this is a figure, we shalbe changed.

1582.  N. Lichefield, trans. Castanheda’s Conq. E. Ind., lxxvi. 156 b. He gaue them for ful answere, that vntil such time they deliuered vnto him the two Italian runagates that wer in Calicut, he would not agree to any thing.

1590.  Shaks., Com. Err., V. i. 399. We shall make full satisfaction.

1622.  Sparrow, Bk. Com. Prayer (1661), 313. For our fuller perswation of this.

1631.  Googe, God’s Arrows, IV. xiii. 391. In his time the Gospell shined out in her full brightnesse.

1638.  Sir R. Baker, trans. Letters of Mounsieur de Balzac (vol. III.), 115. When a comely personage comes in place, having but this advantage of her birth, you shall presently see all that were talking, to hold their peace; and what noyse soever there was before, you shall have all husht … onely to take a full view.

1652.  C. B. Stapylton, Herodian, III. 21.

1669.  Sturmy, Mariner’s Mag., I. 20. Starboard give not fire until he fall off, that the Prize may receive our full Broad-side.

1701.  Swift, Contests Nobles & Com., Wks. 1755, II. I. 33. Entering the scene in the time of a full peace.

1717.  trans. Frezier’s Voy. S. Sea, 14. In the Night, we spy’d a Fire, and when it was full Day a very high Land.

1732.  Berkeley, Alciphr., I. § 5. We assured him he was at full liberty to speak his mind of Things, Persons and Opinions without the least reserve.

1822–34.  Good’s Study Med. (ed. 4), II. 132. Full vomiting … has also been very advantageously employed.

1838.  Thirlwall, Greece, III. xx. 131. They received each a full suit of armour.

1843.  Lefevre, Life Trav. Phys., I. I. i. 10. I was introduced to him in full form.

1845.  Peter Parley’s Annual, VI. 36. White batenbrier often in full flower.

1849.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., I. 439. When he declared himself a Roman Catholic, he was in full possession of his faculties.

1849.  Claridge, Cold Water-cure (1869), 211. The rabbit is now in full health and vigour.

1874.  Green, Short Hist., iv. § 4. 192. A seven years’ apprenticeship formed the necessary prelude to full membership of any trade-gild.

1875.  Fortnum, Maiolica, xii. 113. The Gubbio fabrique was in full work previous to 1518.

  b.  Answering in every respect to a description; possessed of all the qualifications, or entitled to all the privileges implied in a designation. Full brother, sister: born of the same father and mother (opposed to HALF-BROTHER). Full man: see quot. 1867.

O. E. Chron., an. 1036. He wæs þæh full cyng ofer eall Engla land.

1508.  Kennedy, Flyting w. Dunbar, 33. Belzebub thy full brothir will clame To be thyne air.

1570.  Bury Wills (Camden), 156. Agnes my wyfe I doo ordeine and make my full executrix.

1604.  Shaks., Oth., II. i. 36.

1634.  Canne, Necess. Separ. (1849), 237–8. Their deacons are not to administer the sacraments, neither any of those which are full priests, but according to a popish liturgy.

1738.  Swift, Corr., Wks. 1841, II. 803. He proved the fullest rogue … in either kingdom.

1760.  R. Heber, Horse Matches, ix. 143. Chub is full brother in blood to Mirza.

1810.  Naval Chron., XXIII. 94, note. The term ‘full passenger’ is explained in one of the documents produced. Every person above 16 years of age falls under that description.

a. 1825.  Fair Annie, xxxi., in Child, Ballads, III. lxii. (1885), 73/2. ‘Then I’m your sister, Ann,’ she says, ‘And I’m a full sister to thee.’

1867.  Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk., Full man, a rating in coasters for one receiving whole pay, as being competent to all his duties; able seaman.

1883.  American, VI. 2 June, 125/2. Mr. Frank Holl has been elected a full Royal Academician.

1891.  D. Macrae, G. Gilfillan, 78. One full sister of Dr. Anderson and three full brothers died in youth.

1894.  Doyle, Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, 148. James Barclay, a gallant veteran, who started as a full private, was raised to commissioned rank for his bravery at the time of the Mutiny, and so lived to command the regiment in which he had once carried a musket.

  † c.  Of a foe: Avowed, open. Of a friend: Thorough, trusty. (Cf. ENTIRE 3 c.) Obs.

972.  Will of Ælflæd, in Birch, Cartul. Sax., III. 603. Þæt he beo … min fulla freo[n]d & forespreca.

c. 1275.  Passion, 174, in O. E. Misc., 42. Þer him cumeþ iudas, Þat is my fulle i-vo.

a. 1300.  Cursor M., 14780. Þai him held þair ful fa.

c. 1374.  Chaucer, Troylus, I. 1059. Pandarus … desirous to serve His fulle freend, than seyde in this manere.

  8.  Complete in number, quantity, magnitude or extent; reaching the specified or usual limit. Of the moon: Having the disc completely illuminated: cf. FULL MOON. Of the face, or front: Entirely visible to the spectator; advb. phr. (in) full face. Full pay (see quot. 1867).

c. 1000.  Ælfric, Gen. l. 10. Ðar hiȝ wæron seofon daȝas fulle.

a. 1123.  O. E. Chron., an. 1013. Bead þa Sweȝen full ȝild. Ibid., an. 1031. Whenne þæt flod byþ … ealra fullost. Ibid., an. 1106. Wæron ȝesewen tweȝen monan … beȝen fulle.

c. 1205.  Lay., 1632. Fulle seouen nihte heo somenede cnihtes.

c. 1315.  Shoreham, 45. So thes beth ordres folle sevene.

c. 1350.  Will. Palerne, 2745. At þe fulle flod þei ferden to sayle.

c. 1410.  Chron. Eng., 416, in Ritson, II. 287. Ahte ant tuenti folle yer.

1463.  Bury Wills (Camden), 16. Alle other that hath take the ful ordir of preesthod.

c. 1477.  Caxton, Jason, 76 b. The whiche deyde assone as it was borne for it had not his full time.

1535.  Coyerdale, 1 Chron. xxii. 22. For y^e full money shalt thou geue it me.

1559.  W. Cunningham, Cosmogr. Glasse, 98.

1610.  Shaks., Temp., I. ii. 250.

1613.  Purchas, Pilgrimage (1614), 401. And over ten thousands, which made a full regiment. Ibid., 740. One of their ships … happened to strike on a great Whale with her full stemme.

1648.  Gage, West Ind., xii. 43. To visit Mexico (which was not two full miles from us).

1655.  T. Stanley, Hist. Philos. (1701), 38/2. He lived to a full Age, about Seventy Years, or (following the account of Suidas for his Birth) Eighty.

1671.  Milton, P. R., I. 287. I knew the time Now full, that I no more should live obscure.

1700.  S. L., trans. C. Fryke’s Voy. E. Ind., 6–7. The full and regular pay begins only after they are passed the Tonnen, which is a place so called, about a League out at Sea.

1701.  Lond. Gaz., No. 3756/15. Irish Usquebagh … to be sold in full Quart Bottles.

1702.  Addison, Dialogues upon … Medals, Wks. 1721, I. 538. Till about the end of the third Century, when there was a general decay in all the arts of designing, I do not remember to have seen the head of a Roman Emperor drawn with a full face.

1710.  In full Front [see FRONT sb. 5 b].

1715.  Lond. Gaz., No. 5351/3. He will be … pleased to allow Full-Pay to such Half-Pay Officers.

1723.  Sir R. Blackmore, Hist. Conspiracy, 36. His Lieutenant Colonel, Major, and Captains, being named, and the Troops almost full.

1742.  Lond. & Country Brew., I. (ed. 4), 11. The Flour of the Grain will remain in its full Quantity.

1750.  Beawes, Lex Mercat. (1752), 250. When the Sea is full, the Admiral hath Jurisdiction there.

1753.  Scots Mag., Feb., 100/1. The moon was … full.

1784.  Herschel, in Phil. Trans., LXXIV. 262. Measure … of the polar diameter 21″ 15″′ full measure, that is, certainly not too small.

1805.  T. Lindley, Voy. Brasil (1808), 102. After grand mass, a concert of sacred music was performed by a full band, with vocal parts.

1817.  W. Selwyn, Law Nisi Prius (ed. 4), II. 1252. The plaintiff shall have full costs.

1853.  Kingsley, Hypatia, xxix. 360. There Philammon waited a full half-hour.

1855.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., III. 355. The muster was not a very full one.

1867.  Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk., Full pay, the stipend allowed when on actual service.

1876.  Voyle, A Military Dictionary (ed. 3), 153/1. Full Charges—In artillery, are the ordinary charges used with rifled projectiles.

1876.  Humphreys, Coin Coll. Man., vi. 54. The head of Apollo on the gold coin I am describing, is of the most exquisite workmanship, and appears in full face.

1895.  M. R. James, Abbey St. Edmund at Bury, 51. At top is Christ in a mandorla seated full-face with a book.

  b.  Of an assembly, council, etc.: One from which none or few of the members are absent.

1557.  Order of Hospitalls, C iv. Item That no Lease, alienation … be … done, of Lands or Tenements except at a Full Court.

1604.  Shaks., Oth., IV. i. 275.

1834.  Wallace, in Mackintosh, Hist. Rev., p. viii. He … kept the academic senate waiting for him in full conclave.

1849.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., II. 78. James … in full council declared it to be his pleasure that [etc.].

  † c.  Of a point in the compass: Exact, due (east, etc.). Cf. C. 3 b. Obs. rare.

1630.  R. Johnson, Relations of the Most Famous Kingdoms, etc., 77. The Island is situated almost full North. Ibid., 122. On the full East doe the Alps divide it [France] from Italie.

  d.  In various phraseological combinations: as full flood, sea, tide (lit. and fig.) indicating the greatest height of the water, or the time when it is highest. Also full tide, used attrib. and as adv. Full summer: the height of summer. Cf. B. 4 b.

c. 1450.  Life of St. Cuthbert (Surtees), 5174. It was full se. Ibid., 5178. And so it was full flode.

1574.  Bourne, Regiment for Sea, 7 b. The Moone dooth make a full Sea at that place.

1576.  A. Fleming, A Panoplie of Epistles, 395. Thinke you that your fal is so sore, that you are neuer like to rise, that your ebb is so lowe, that you are never like to have a ful tyde?

1647–8.  Joseph Beaumont, Psyche, XIV. lxxxiii.

1699.  Dampier, Voy., II. I. 16. Not so swift near full Sea as at other times.

1708.  Mrs. Centlivre, Busie Body, II. ii. Cause such Swi—m—ing in the Brain, that carries many a Guinea full-tide to the Doctor.

1845.  G. Murray, Islaford, 78.

1865.  Trollope, Belton Est., i. 5. It was full summer at Belton.

1867.  Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk., Full sea, high water.

1875.  W. M‘Ilwraith, Guide to Wigtownshire, 140. The surf breaking over the rock at full flood.

1887.  Spectator, 25 June, 859/2. At this Jubilee-time, when the whole nation is in the full tide of rejoicing.

  9.  Possessed of, delivered with, or exerting the utmost force. † With a full arm, eye, mouth, soul: with the utmost strength of (the arm, etc.).

c. 1290.  S. Eng. Leg., I. 86/93. Loude he gradde with folle Mouth.

c. 1489.  Caxton, Sonnes of Aymon, xvii. 392. He … toke hym wyth a full arme … in lyke wyse in maner of wrastelyng.

1509.  Barclay, Shyp of Folys (1570), 99. It neuer loketh on man with eyes full But euer his heart by furious wrath is dull.

a. 1533.  Ld. Berners, Huon, lxvii. 230. Whom so euer he strake a full stroke neded after no surgyon.

1583.  Hollyband, Campo di Fior, 121. Was better fixed in the memorie … if I did speake with a full voice.

1609.  Bible (Douay), Isa. ix. 12. The Philisthims … shal devoure Israel with ful mouth.

1610.  Shaks., Temp., III. i. 44.

1632.  J. Hayward, trans. Biondi’s Eromena, 28. Rush’t into the chamber … and … thrust at him a full stocada.

1634–5.  Brereton, Trav. (Chetham), 124. Presently favouring us … with a full gale of wind.

1657.  R. Ligon, Barbadoes (1673), 29. Bread, which is accounted the staff, or main supporter of mans life, has not here that full taste it has in England; but yet they account it nourishing and strengthening.

1694.  Acc. Sev. Late Voy., II. (1711), 38. If in a brisk Gale of a full Wind the Sails are all full and Round.

1700.  S. L., trans. C. Fryke’s Voy. E. Ind., 207. The Javians set up a full Huzza.

1783.  J. C. Smyth, in Med. Commun., I. 142. Pulse 68, full and strong.

1805.  T. Lindley, Voy. Brasil (1808), 21. This day we had for guard an ancient of full ninety years, but whose faculties were the most vigorous and lively of any old man’s I ever saw: his eyes retained all their fire, his step was tolerably strong, and his pulse full and regular (which is not always found even in the youth of this relaxing clime).

  b.  Of light: Intense. Of color: Deep, intense.

1657.  R. Ligon, Barbadoes (1673), 66. These leaves being large, smooth, and beautifully shap’d and of a full green, appear to your eyes like so much green Sattin, hang’d on a rail or line, so even and so smooth they hang naturally.

1664.  Power, Experimental Philosophy, I. 26. If you advantageously place her [the Locust], and view her with a full light (transmitted through a Burning-glass (which artifice I sometimes use) you shall fairly see them to be as bigg as two small black round Beads, and drill’d through also with innumerable perforations (as the eye in a Fly) which will try the exquisiteness both of your Glass and Eye to behold.

1791.  Hamilton, Berthollet’s Dyeing, I. I. I. i. 19. With equal quantities of cochineal in each bath (bain) the colour of the wool will be much more full and intense, than that of the silk.

1842.  Tennyson, Locksley Hall, 17. In the spring a fuller crimson comes upon the robin’s breast.

1869.  Phillips, Vesuv., xi. 303. Mixed substances under the application of heat, amounting to a full red in iron.

  c.  In various phraseological combinations: as full butt, cry, drive, gallop, jump, pack, pelt, pitch, retreat, sail, scent, speed, stretch, swing, tilt, etc.: for which see the words.

  10.  Having a rounded outline; large, swelling, plump, protuberant.

c. 1000.  Sax. Leechd., III. 268. Ealle eorþlice lichaman beoþ fulran on weaxendum monan.

1577.  B. Googe, Heresbach’s Husb., III. (1586), 115. The hoofe that is ful and fleshy, is not to be liked.

1627.  Capt. Smith, Seaman’s Gram., xi. 54. The longer a ship is, the fuller should be her Bow.

1674.  N. Cox, Gentl. Recreat., II. (1677), 178. A round Head, somewhat full on the top.

1688.  Lond. Gaz., No. 2320/1. This Sultan Soliman is of a long, lean and pale Visage, with a full black Eye.

1697.  Dampier, Voy., I. iii. 32. Full round Faces, small black Eyes … full Lips, and short Chins. Ibid., vi. 131. It is a high bluff, or full point of Land.

1698.  J. Fryer, A New Account of East-India and Persia, 55. Darmapatan, where we took in fuller and larger Pepper than any yet.

1726.  Adv. Capt. R. Boyle, 125. The Women of Morocco, I mean all that I had the Fortune to see, were very handsome, fine large full Eyes, round Faces, and every Feature exact.

1803.  Med. Jrnl., IX. 36. In proportion as the patient was full, robust and vigorous.

1840.  Miss Mitford, in L’Estrange, Life (1870), III. vii. 109. She is … full enough to prevent the haggard look which comes upon women who grow thin at fifty.

c. 1850.  Rudim. Navig. (Weale), 152. Its [steeler’s] use is to take out the snying edge occasioned by a full bow, or sudden circular buttock.

1894.  J. E. Humphrey, in Pop. Sci. Monthly, XLIV. 494. The fruit is cut as soon as it is ‘full.’

  b.  Of portions of dress: Containing a superfluity of material which is arranged in gathers or folds.

1789.  Mrs. Piozzi, Journ. France, I. 306. White silk petticoat, exceedingly full and short.

1824.  Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. I. (1863), 213. An open gown … whose very full tail … would have formed an inconvenient little train.

1862.  Miss Yonge, Stokesley Secret, ii. 42. Alpaca frocks, rather long and not very full.

1891.  Leeds Mercury, 27 April, 4/7. Velvet sleeves, full and high on the shoulders.

  11.  Naut. (with mixed notion of 1 and 10). Of a sail: Filled. Of the ship: Having her sails filled with wind; and in phrase keep (her, i.e., the ship) full. Full and by: see BY adv. 1 d. Full for stays: see quot.

1627.  [see BY adv. 1 d].

1697.  Occasional Conformity, 10. ’Tis like a Ship with her Sails hal’d some back, and some full.

1769.  Falconer, Dict. Marine (1789), Z z iij. You are all in the wind; keep her full!

1805.  Adm. C. Stirling, in Naval Chron. (1806), XV. 80. We were not in any order of sailing or of battle, and therefore we sometimes had our main-top-sail full, or kept it aback, to keep such distance from the Admiral as I thought he would approve.

1838.  Poe, A. G. Pym, Wks. 1864, IV. 15. We hoisted jib and mainsail, kept full, and started boldly out to sea.

1867.  Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk., Full for Stays! The order to keep the sails full to preserve the velocity, assisting the action of the rudder in tacking ship.

1882.  Nares, Seamanship (ed. 6), 148. When the fore sail is full, ‘Let draw.’

  12.  Comb. a. with sbs. forming combinations used attrib.; as full-cream, -draught, -dug, -hand, -page, -plate, -power, -top, -value, -way, -weight.

1881.  Chicago Times, 16 April. The *full-cream cheese manufactured in the states of Wisconsin and Illinois.

1856.  Kane, Arct. Expl., II. iii. 46. I have manufactured a *full-draught pipe for our smoky stove.

1852.  Meanderings of Mem., I. 79. Where *full-dug foragers at evening meet In Cow-bell concert.

1593.  Nashe, Christ’s T., 22. The … profuse sacrificatory expences of *ful-hand oblationers.

1889.  Spectator, 14 Dec., 849. We may select for notice the *full-page illustrations of ‘Dundee’ and ‘Stirling.’

1884.  F. J. Britten, The Watch and Clockmakers’ Handbook, 108. A *full plate watch has a top plate (i.e. the bottom plate of the movement looking from the dial) of a circular form, and the balance is above this plate.

1890.  Times, 18 Sept., 4/2. The Skipjack … left Sheerness yesterday for the *full-power official trial of her machinery.

1723.  Lond. Gaz., No. 6206/9. He is … pale fac’d, a *full-top Wig.

1896.  Daily News, 31 March, 9/3. Any *full-value gold pieces in circulation will have to be called in.

1882.  Worc. Exhib. Catal., iii. 49. Excelsior *full-way hot water valves.

1884.  Knight, Dict. Mech., 361/2. Full Way Valve. A pipe valve which lifts entirely out of the current. Also called a clear-way valve.

1866.  Crump, Banking, x. 233–4. It is, therefore, hardly to be expected that the Bank or the Government, without the full concurrence of the country, would supply new and *full-weight coin for those that have by circulation, and often ill-treatment, fallen below their legal weight.

  b.  with pres. and pa. pples. forming combinations in which full stands as a complement; as full-built, -charged, -crammed, -farced, -fed, -flowering, -flowing, -fraught, freight, -freighted, -gorged, -made, -opening, -pulsing, -resounding, -stuffed, -swelling; also full-feeding vbl. sb.

1709.  Lond. Gaz., No. 4510. The Hoy Burthen 9 or 10 Tun, very *full built forward.

1613.  Shaks., Hen. VIII., I. ii. 3. I stood i’ th’ leuell Of a *full-charg’d confederacie.

1827.  Keble, Chr. Y., 1st Sund. in Lent. Thy full-charg’d vial standing by.

1613.  Wither, Satir. Ess., II. ii. P j a. Emptying their *full cram’d bags.

1879.  Huxley, Hume, i. 56. Unknown to this full-crammed and much-examined generation.

1578.  Timme, Caluine on Gen., 189. The place … so *full-farssed and stuffed up.

1593.  Shaks., Lucr., 594.

1887.  Spectator, 5 March, 320/1. We … have a notion that full-fed authors do bad work.

1382.  Wyclif, Gen. xli. 20. Other seuen oxen … the whiche … no merke of “fulfedyng Ȝouun.

1577.  St. Aug. Manual (Longm.), 12. The place of fulfeedyng by the plentifull running streames.

1821.  Keats, Lamia, I. 44. The taller grasses and *full-flowering weed.

1605.  Shaks., Lear, V. iii. 74. Lady I am not well, else I should answere From a *full flowing stomack.

1832.  Tennyson, Œnone, 67. While I look’d And listen’d … the fullflowing river of speech Came down upon my heart.

c. 1606.  Fletcher, Woman Hater, I. ii. His tables are *full fraught with most nourishing food.

1694.  Echard, Plautus, Epidicus, III. ii. I’ll teach her how t’ act her part to a tittle, and send her *full-fraight with my Tricks.

1740.  Somerville, Hobbinol, III. 356.

a. 1711.  Ken, Hymnotheo, Poet. Wks. 1721, III. 319.

1596.  Shaks., Tam. Shr., IV. i. 194. She [my Faulcon] must not he *full gorg’d, For then she neuer lookes vpon her lure.

1781.  Cowper, Hope, 509.

1790.  Pol. Misc., 58. With *full-made sleeves and pendant lace.

1730–46.  Thomson, Autumn, 421.

1878.  Morley, Carlyle, Crit. Misc., Ser. I. 189. As if we had no faculties of sympathy, no sense for the beauty of character, no feeling for broad force and *full-pulsing vitality.

1737.  Pope, Hor. Epist., II. i. 267.

1613.  Drayton, Poly-olb., XIV. 118.

1748.  Thomson, Cast. Indol., I. 296.

  c.  parasynthetic, as full-bagged, -banked, -bellied, -bloomed, -blossomed, -bosomed, -bowed, -brained, -busted, -buttocked, -cheeked, -chested, -clustered, -eared, -feathered, -flanked, -fleshed, -flocked, -foliaged, -formed, fortuned, -fronted, -fruited, † -gaskined, -haired, -handed, -happinessed, -haunched, -headed, -hipped, -jointed, -leaved, -licensed, -limbed, -measured, -minded, -natured, -necked, -paunched, -personed, -powered, -proportioned, -rayed, -rigged, -roed, -sailed (lit. and fig.), -shouldered, -sized, -skirted, -souled, † -speeched, -sphered, -statured (lit. and fig.), -stomached, -streamed, -throated, timed, -toned, -lushed, -uddered, -voiced, -weighted, -whiskered, -winged, -wilted, -wombed.

1613.  Drayton, Poly-olb., xiv. 227. The *full-bagd Cow.

1630.  J. Taylor (Water P.), Wks., 15. No full bag’d man would euer durst haue entered.

1622.  Drayton, Poly-olb., xxviii. 205. Many a *full-bankt Flood.

1681.  Lond. Gaz., No. 1638/8. Stolen … a dark Brown Nag … pretty *full-bellied, and reasonable fat.

1646.  Crashaw, Steps to Temple, 21. Lo! a mouth, whose *full-bloom’d lips At two deare a rate are roses.

1840.  Longf., Sp. Stud., I. iii. The *full-blossomed trees filled all the air with fragrance.

1603.  Drayton, To Maiestie K. James, A iv. The fruitfull and *ful-bosom’d Spring.

1883.  Harper’s Mag., Aug., 376/2. The *full-bowed schooners lean over on the beach at low tide.

1596.  Fitz-Geffray, Sir F. Drake (1881), 26.

1864.  Tennyson, En. Ard., 539. Her *full-busted figure head Stared o’er the ripple feathering from her bows.

1672.  Lond. Gaz., No. 657/4. A Bay Mare … with … a black List down the Buttock, and *full Buttockt. Ibid. (1686), No. 2145/4. Elizabeth Tildel … short and black, *full-cheek’d.

a. 1711.  Ken, Preparatives, Poet. Wks. 1721, IV. 92.

1681.  Lond. Gaz., No. 1620/4. A black brown Gelding … short Neck, *full Chested.

1645.  Quarles, Sol. Recant., vii. 19. *Full clusterd Vineyards. Ibid. (1635), Emblems, I. ii. Epig. 2. A *full-ear’d Crop, and thriving.

1845.  Mrs. Norton, Child of Islands (1846), 107. Whose mass of full-eared sheaves the reapers bind.

1806.  T. S. Surr, Winter in Lond. (ed. 3), II. 254. Barton is a *full-feathered pigeon.

1612.  Drayton, Poly-olb., III. 298. Many a plump-thigh’d moor & *ful-flank’d marsh.

1832.  Motherwell, Poet. Wks. (1847), 48.

1622.  Drayton, Poly-olb., xxvi. 38. The large, and goodly *full-flockd Oulds.

1807–8.  W. Irving, Salmagundi (1824), 187. The whispers of the *full-foliaged grove fall on the ear of contemplation, like the sweet tones of far distant friends whom the rude jostles of the world have severed from us, and cast far beyond our reach.

1727–46.  Thomson, Summer, 811.

1606.  Shaks., Ant. & Cl., IV. xv. 24.

1895.  Daily News, 20 March. 7/1. A *full-fronted coat.

1853.  Hickie, trans. Aristoph. (1872), II. 543. Shaking the *full-fruited chaplet about your head.

1682.  Lond. Gaz., No. 1768/4. A white grey Roan Gelding … well Crested … *full gascoign’d. Ibid. (1689), No. 2513/4. A grey Mare … only gallops and trots, and a *full haired bob Tail.

1643.  [Angier], Lanc. Vall. Achor, 35. Mercies … have been granted … with *full-handed favours.

1815.  Lamb, Lett. to Wordsworth (1888), I. 294. My *full-happiness’d friend is picking his crackers.

1685.  Lond. Gaz., No. 2019/8. Stolen … a brown bay Nag … *full Haunched, and small Bodied.

1816.  Keatinge, Trav. (1817), I. 152. The sweet acorn-bearing oak predominates here. Where tillage has invaded the precincts of the forest, *full-headed trees of this species have been left at judicious intervals, scattered over and ornamenting the pale stubble.

1882.  E. O’Donovan, Merv Oasis, I. 343. It differs from the horridly slovenly-looking *full-hipped tunic worn under the old régime, notably by the officer.

1688.  Lond. Gaz., No. 2355/4. A dapple grey … *full jointed in both his hinder Legs.

1630.  Drayton, Muses Elysium, 199. With *full leav’d lilies I will stick Thy braided hair.

1883.  Goole Weekly Times, 14 Sept., 5/3. To be let, the ‘Royal Oak Inn’ … a *full-licensed House.

1859.  Tennyson, Guinevere, 43. Those whom God had made *full-limb’d and tall.

a. 1711.  Ken, Hymnarium, Poet. Wks. 1721, II. 124.

1627–77.  Feltham, Resolves, I. xxxiv. 58. To be poor, is to be made a pavement for the tread of the *full-minded man.

1823.  Lamb, Elia, Ser. II. Child Angel. Those *full-natured angels tended it by turns.

1670.  Narborough, Jrnl., in Acc. Sev. Late Voy., I. (1694), 59. They are *full-necked, and headed and beaked like a Crow.

1607.  Topsell, Four-f. Beasts (1658), 332. To be ministered … when the horse is not altogether *full panched, but rather empty.

1873.  Howells, Chance Acquaint., i. 14. The *full-personed good-humored looking gentleman.

1742.  Young, Nt. Th., II. 317. To-day is yesterday return’d … *Full-pow’r’d.

1631.  J. Weever, Ancient Funerall Monuments, 762. Two *full proportioned figures in brasse.

1879.  Geo. Eliot, Coll. Breakf. P., 762. *Full-rayed sensibilities which blend Truth and desire.

1830.  N. S. Wheaton, Jrnl., 342. A *full-rigged [French] bagage waggon is a curious spectacle.

1884.  E. Ingersoll, in Harper’s Mag., May, 869/2. Full-rigged foreign ships.

1895.  Daily News, 26 Jan., 5/5. The *full-roed Norway herrings.

1594.  Nashe, Unfort. Trav., A 3. Mercenarie attendants on his *ful-sayld fortune.

1622.  Drayton, Poly-olb., XIX. 178. Arthur’s full-sail’d Fleet.

1629.  Massinger, Picture, II. ii. Such is my full-sailed confidence in her virtue.

1808.  J. Barlow, The Columbiad, I. 623.

1838.  Dickens, O. Twist, xxxix. Master Bates produced from one of his extensive pockets a *full-sized wine-bottle, carefully corked.

1689.  Lond. Gaz., No. 2416/4. A *full skirted Leather Saddle.

1882.  Ogilvie, *Full-souled, magnanimous; of noble disposition.

1692.  Lond. Gaz., No. 2809/4. Timothy Phillips … *full speech’d, in a light grey … Suit … went away … with a … Sum of Money.

1833.  Tennyson, Poems, The Palace of Art, 84.

1691.  Lond. Gaz., No. 2631/4. A Black named Johanna … *full Statured.

1844.  Mrs. Browning, Lady Geraldine’s Courtship, lxvii.

1593.  Nashe, Christ’s T., 63. Grosse *full-stomacht tautology.

1611.  Tourneur, The Atheist’s Tragedie, II. i. Wks. 1878, I. 40. The full-stomack’d Sea.

1593.  Nashe, Christ’s T., 38 b. Hearing riche London was the *full-streamed wel-head.

1806.  J. Grahame, Birds Scotl., 72.

1820.  Keats, Ode to Nightingale, 10. Thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees … Singest of summer in *full-throated ease.

1889.  Daily News, 5 June, 6/7. Just preceding or at the time of her death she had been delivered of a *full timed child.

1827.  Keble, Chr. Y., SS. Simon and Jude, Mild As evening blackbird’s *full-ton’d lay.

1611.  Cotgr., Miré … long-tusked, *full-tushed, as a full-growne Boare.

1727–46.  Thomson, Summer, 219.

1632.  Milton, Penseroso, 162. There let the pealing organ blow, To the *full-voiced quire below.

1888.  Daily News, 5 Oct., 5/2. The Bank of Germany does not refuse full-weighted gold to those who can demand it.

1838.  Dickens, Nich. Nick., xvii. Such a *full-whiskered dashing young man.

1611.  Shaks., Cymb., III. iii. 19.

c. 1630.  Drummond of Hawth., Poems, Wks. (1711), 41/1. Full-winged argoses.

1884.  American, VIII. 26 July, 251/1. It will not be alleged, we think, by any full-witted American that the book [‘The Great Republic’] is entitled to serious consideration.

1630.  Drayton, Noah’s Flood, 34. The *full-womb’d Women very hardly went Out their nine months.

  d.  Special comb.: full-back (Football), position in the field behind the other ‘backs’; a player in this position; also attrib.; † full-belly, one who has or makes a point of having his belly full; full-bodied a., having a full body (esp. of wine: see BODY 25); also fig.; full-breasted a., having a full breast; also transf.; full-brimmed a., full to the brim, overflowing; full-center arch [Fr. arc à plein-cintre] (see quot.); † full-charge, v., to charge to the full (cf. full-charged in 12 b); full-circle adv., with the form of a full circle or disc; full-eyed, † (a) perfectly visible; seen in the front; (b) having full eyes; full-flavored a., having a full or strong flavor (said esp. of cigars); also fig.; full-front v., to present a full front to; † full-mouth, one whose mouth is full (of words), a chatterer; also attrib. = FULL-MOUTHED; full-orbed a. poet. (of the moon), having its disc completely illuminated; also fig.; (hence full-orbedness); † full-trussed a. (of a horse), having full hind-quarters.

1887.  Shearman, Athletics & Football, 324. Last but not least comes the *full back, and of him it may be said that it is easy to describe him but difficult to find him. Two things only are required of him, that he should be an admirable and accurate drop, and a safe and strong tackler, who neither lets his man pass him nor can be knocked over or brushed aside by a rush.

1893.  A. H. Harrison, in Assoc. Football Handbk., 18. Let the full-backs keep close to their halves.

1896.  Daily News, 29 Oct., 9/4. A splendid little bit of full-back work.

1637.  R. Humphrey, trans. St. Ambrose, I. 30. Lazy lubbers, and *full bellyes, drowned in worldly delights.

1686.  Lond. Gaz., No. 2162/4. He is about 21 years of age … broad-shoulder’d, *full-bodied.

1688.  R. Holme, Armoury, II. 336/2. A Bleke … is a full bodied little Fish … with red eyes, and a white body.

1720.  J. Clarke, Rohault’s Nat. Phil. (1729), 177. I put in a Quart of full-bodied Red Wine.

1835.  Willis, Pencillings (1836), I. ix. 60. It is a ripe, rich, full-bodied liquor, which ‘ascends me into the brain’ sooner than any continental wine I have tasted.

1890.  Standard, 10 March. To the full-bodied humour of … Hogarth.

1611.  Speed, Theat. Gt. Brit. (1614), 125/1. A provident and *full-breasted mother.

1657.  R. Ligon, Barbadoes (1673), 51. The men, they are well timber’d, that is, broad between the shoulders, full breasted, well filletted, and clean leg’d.

1677.  Yarranton, Eng. Improv., 120. Our VVheat is large, full-brested, and thin-rined, and none in England to compare with the VVheat near Banbury, and upon the Hills thereabouts.

1622.  Drayton, Poly-olb., XXIX. 110. Two faire and *full-brim’d Floods.

a. 1845.  Hood, To Mrs. Fry, xiii. I like the pity in your full-brimmed eye.

1874.  Knight, Dict. Mech., I. 922/1. *Full-centre Arch. A semicircular arch or vault. One describing the full amount of 180°.

1766.  Spry, Locked Jaw., in Phil. Trans., LVII. 89. I now … several times *full-charged her with the electric matter.

1879.  Browning, Pheidippides, 39. The moon, half-orbed, is unable to take *Full-circle her state in the sky!

1633.  G. Herbert, Temple, Glance, iii. What wonders shall we feel when we shall see Thy *full-ey’d love.

1688.  Lond. Gaz., No. 2318/4. One of the persons a little Man, full eyed, in a cinnamon colour’d Coat.

1891.  Miss S. J. Duncan, Amer. Girl Lond., 231. An actress on the Lyric drag gave us a very frank and *full-flavoured criticism of our dresses, but it was unsatisfying, except to the sensibilities.

1855.  Browning, Saul. Perfection, no more and no less, In the kind I imagined, *full-fronts me.

1589.  Greene, Menaphon (Arb.), 54. Some propheticall *full mouth that as he were a Coblers eldest sonne, would by the laste tell where another shooe wrings.

1646.  Crashaw, Music’s Duel, 156. A full-mouth Diapason swallowes all.

1667.  Milton, P. L., V. 42. Now reigns *Full-orbed the moon.

1851.  Mayne Reid, Scalp Hunt., xxxiv. 206. The moon, full-orbed—autumnal—is sweeping up towards the zenith, outlined against a heaven of cloudless blue.

1871.  R. B. Vaughan, Life Thomas Aquinas, II. 644. The steady full-orbed revelation of Jesus Christ.

1895.  United Presbyt. Mag., 259. We confess to the impression that he lacks somewhat of fullorbedness.

1683.  Lond. Gaz., No. 1846/4. A *full trust Nag, a good Trot, short Rack.

  B.  quasi-sb. and sb.

  1.  The adj. used absol., passing into sb. In various adverbial phrases.

  a.  At (the) full: † (a) In various uses, now chiefly expressed by the other phrases below: Fully, completely; at full length; to the full extent (obs.). (b) At the position or moment of fullness; in the state of fullness (cf. 4 c).

a. 1340.  Cursor Mundi, 4008 (Trin.). But who so god helpe wol May sauely go at þe fol.

c. 1380.  Wyclif, Church & Members, Sel. Wks. III. 347. Lord! where he were not charged at the fulle as apostlis weren.

1398.  Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XV. cxxvii. (1495), 536. A penne maye not wryte at full the praysynge of this kyngdom.

1413.  Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton, 1483), IV. xxxii. 81. They ben wel ioynted and myghtely boned so that they ben strong at the fulle.

1563.  Homilies, II. Agst. Gluttony (1859), 299. They that use to drinke deeply and to feed at full.

1632.  J. Hayward, trans. Biondi’s Eromena, 171. Satisfying … the rest of his demands at full.

1662.  Gerbier, Princ., 35. Eight Foote in length, being at full the space which the Horse doth possess when … he lyeth stretcht on his Litter.

1667.  Milton, P. L., I. 641. His regal state Put forth at full.

1705.  Hearne, Collect., 22 Nov. Giving his Reasons at full.

1742.  Young, Nt. Th., v. 878. He drops his mask; Frowns out at full.

1790.  Burke, Fr. Rev., 66. The power of the house of commons, direct or indirect, is indeed great; and long may it be able to preserve its greatness, and the spirit belonging to true greatness, at the full; and it will do so, as long as it can keep the breakers of law in India from becoming the makers of law for England.

1874.  Micklethwaite, Modern Parish Churches, 186. Having certain jets turned on at full.

  b.  In († the) full: (a) with reference to a statement, etc.: At full length, in extenso; (b) Of payments, receipts, etc.: To the full amount. In full of: in full discharge or satisfaction of. † A leg in the full: one that is plump and well rounded.

1552.  J. Caius, Sweating Sickness, 4. A woorke of Erasmus … I dyd geue … not in the ful as the authore made it, but abbreuiate.

1602.  Marston, Ant. & Mel., III. Wks. 1856, I. 36.

1679–88.  Secr. Serv. Money Chas. II. & Jas. II. (Camden), 35. 37^li 5^s 9^d, in full of a former bill for that service.

1704.  J. Pitts, Acc. Mohammetans, 23. For frequently the Cause of falling out between the Moors and the Bay is very trivial; it may be, for not paying in full to two or three Shillings; or something as inconsiderable.

1741.  Richardson, Pamela, II. 368. To assign her Five Hundred Pounds, in full of all her Demands upon her Family.

1754–62.  Hume, Hist. Eng. (1806), IV. liv. 177. Light hundred and fifty pounds a day, in full of their subsistence.

1781.  Cowper, Convers., 201. A satisfactory receipt in full.

1879.  Law Rep., 14 Q. Bench Div. 814. A sufficient sum to pay the trade-creditors of my aforesaid sons in full.

1885.  Manch. Exam., Nov., 3/2. Reproducing in full instead of simply summarising the … documentary material.

  c.  To the full (also † to full): to the utmost extent, completely, fully, quite. Also † to satiety.

1393.  Langl., P. Pl., C. XXI. 413. May no … presiouse drynkes Moyst me to †e fulle.

c. 1430.  Freemasonry, 682. The angele Gabryelle, Wol kepe hem to the ful welle.

1577.  St. Aug. Manual (Longm.), 114. Although I cannot do it to the full in this lyfe: yet let me profite from day to day untill it may come to the full.

1611.  Bible, Exod. xvi. 3. Would to God wee had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sate by the flesh pots, and when we did eate bread to the full.

1628.  Gaule, Pract. Theorists Paneg., 60. Done, Done to full, whatsoe’re he came to doe.

1648.  Gage, West Ind., xxi. 190. We thought our money had satisfied them … to the full.

1701.  Penn, in Pa. Hist. Soc. Mem., IX. 53. I must expect my right to the full.

1798.  G. Washington, Lett., Writ. 1893, XIV. 73. To keep them out of it; or which is to the full as likely, to direct them into another course.

1885.  L’pool Daily Post, 1 June, 5/4. The University match promises to illustrate to the full the delightful uncertainty of cricket.

  2.  = FILL sb.¹ 1. Now rare.

1377.  Langl., P. Pl., B. VI. 266. Arise vp ar appetit haue eten his fulle.

1607.  Topsell, Four-f. Beasts (1658), 187. If they eat Walnuts (and not to their full) unripe.

1648.  Gage, West Ind., xiii. 76. Here is now enough, drink thy full of it.

1862.  Merivale, Rom. Emp. (1871), V. xliv. 281. These flies, he said, have nearly sucked their full, and are beginning to be tolerable.

1874.  Dasent, Tales fr. Fjeld, 152. Tom Toper had eaten his full. Ibid., 178. They had all stared their full.

  † b.  The quantity that fills (a receptacle). Obs. [app. evolved from -FUL 2.]

1799.  Spirit Publ. Jrnls. (1800), III. 7. The full of his hat is the standard of his corn measures.

  3.  Complete scope, entire range; entire amount or sum total; completeness, fullness. † In adverbial phrase, All the full: in all its fullness or completeness (obs.). Now rare.

c. 1330.  Arth. & Merl., 8433. What þou se al þe fulle, Wiche socour don we schulle.

c. 1400.  Destr. Troy, 13855. When the freike had the fulle of xv^tene yeres.

1523.  Ld. Berners, Froiss. (1812), I. 689. They shulde playnly shewe the full of his entencyon and mynde.

1592.  Daniel, Delia, Poems (1717), 409. Her tender Bud doth undisclose That Full of Beauty, Time bestows upon her.

1670.  Cotton, Espernon, I. II. 49. The Lords of Guise had the full of their own demands, whether against those of the Hugonot Party; or in their own particular favour.

1720.  De Foe, Capt. Singleton, x. (1840), 172. Upon the word of a pirate, that I should not be able to recollect the full, no not by far, of the great variety which has formed one of the most reprobate schemes that ever man was capable to present to the world.

1734.  W. Snelgrave, Guinea & Slave Trade, 55. Afterwards we experienced the full of what he told us.

1843.  J. H. Newman, Apologia (1864), 358. With my opinions, to the full of which I dare not confess.

1890.  W. C. Russell, Ocean Trag., II. xix. 134. Sleeping as he did, right in the ‘eyes,’ he got the very full of the motion.

  4.  The period, point, or state of the greatest fullness or strength.

1398.  Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., VII. lxix. (1495), 287. One manere medicyne nedyth in the begynnynge of the euyll, and a nother in the fulle, and a nother in passynge therof.

c. 1400.  Destr. Troy, 12560. [The] stones at the full of the flode [were] flet all aboue.

1611.  Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., VII. xxxi. 317. Empires … haue their risings, their fuls, and their fals.

1613.  Purchas, Pilgrimage (1614), 399. Their [the Romanes’] Empire was growing to the full.

1622.  S. Ward, Life of Faith in Death (1627), 97. Whiles he was in the mouthes of all men, most honourable, most munificent, most fortunate, in the full of his prosperity, in the source of pleasures, in the toppe of greatnesse, &c.

  b.  Of a month or season: The height, the middle.

1638.  Evelyn, Fr. Gard. (1675), 143. The perfect season to sow Melon-seeds, is in the full of february.

1855.  Browning, Another Way of Love, i. June was not over Though past the full.

1858.  Motley, Corr. (1889), I. 327. It was a kind of duty to let her have the advantage which my position as a man of letters gives her, of seeing for once the most brilliant and cultivated society in the world, viz., the highest circles of London in the full of the season.

  c.  The full of the moon (also ellipt. the full and in phr. at full): the period or state of complete illumination of the moon’s disc.

c. 1386.  Chaucer, Frankl. T., 341. Thanne shal she [the moon] been euene atte fulle alway.

1398.  Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., V. lviii. (1495), 174. Beestes and trees haue passynge plente of humours and of marowe in the fulle of the mone.

1559.  W. Cunningham, Cosmogr. Glasse, 149. Before the Full, and after the change, she shineth presently, the sonne being set.

1598.  Yong, Diana, 309. The fuls and wanes of the Moone, by the Antes and dores.

a. 1652.  Brome, Queene’s Exch., II. i. Wks. 1873, III. 473. Bright Cynthia in her full of Lustre.

1664.  Butler, Hud., II. iii. 262. He made an Instrument to know If the Moon shine at full or no.

1686.  Plot, Staffordsh., 431. Was to be reputed the Paschal Moone, whose Full fell not on, but next after the Vernal Equinox or 21 of March, on which day if Sunday, or else the next Sunday following, Easter was always to be observed.

1720.  De Foe, Capt. Singleton, vii. (1840), 123–4. The moon was near the full, but the air full of flying clouds, and a strange hurricane of wind, to add to the terror of the night.

1794.  Trans. Soc. Arts, XII. 245. Every full and change of the moon.

1818.  M. G. Lewis, Jrnl. W. Ind. (1834), 28. The sky this evening presented us with quite a new phenomenon, a rose-coloured moon: she is to be at her full to-morrow.

1840.  Dickens, Barn. Rudge, i. The moon is past the full, and she rises at nine.

  fig.  1590.  Nashe, Pasquil’s Apol., I. C, Heere his wit is at the fullest, and presentlie it beginneth to wane againe.

  5.  The full grasp (of the hand).

1833.  Regul. Instr. Cavalry, I. 59. The bridoon rein … to be held in the full of the bridlehand.

  6.  Crown fulls: Herrings of the best brand (see quot. 1864 in A. 1. e).

1892.  Berwick Advertiser, 16 Sept., 3/6. Not a single barrel of crown fulls has been branded this summer.

  † 7.  A set (of kettles). Obs. (? Another word.)

1466.  Mann. & Househ. Exp., 206. My mastyr paid … for iij. kettelles calde a ffulle, iij.s. vj.d.

1502.  Arnolde, Chron. (1811), 237. Fullis off ketellis redy bownde, the full, at iij.s’. iiij.d’.

1528.  Sir R. Weston, in Dillon, Calais & Pale (1892), 91. Item of every fulle [printed fulte] of Kettles j^d.

1660–1.  Merch. Adv. Newcastle (Surtees), 202. Railph Fell, master and marryner, petitioned for a full of battery seized on (as forraigne bought and forraigne sold) by Mr. Anthony Dobson.

  C.  adv.

  1.  Simply intensive: Very, exceedingly.

  a.  with adjs. of quality. Now only poet.

c. 888.  K. Ælfred, Boeth., xi. § 1. Maneȝe beoþ þeah æȝþer ȝe full æþele ȝe full weliȂe and beoþ þeah full unrote.

c. 1000.  Ags. Ps. (Th.) lxxxviii[i]. 3 [4]. Ic … ȝeworhte ful sefte seld, þæet hi sæton on.

a. 1200.  Moral Ode, 75, in Trin. Coll. Hom., 222. Heuene and erðe he ouersihð his eien beð ful brihte.

c. 1300.  Cursor M., 21061 (Edin.). Ful elde [quen þat] he seich his endedai him neiȝand neich.

c. 1380.  Wyclif, Wks. (1880), 309. Ȝee, ful deer breþeren.

c. 1400.  Lanfranc’s Cirurg., 110. Þese boonys in oon partie ben ful hard.

c. 1420.  Sir Amadace (Camden), xxvii. Sir Amadace toke leue atte alle, Un-semand with fulle glad chere.

1450–1530.  Myrr. our Ladye, 7. Praye for oure right poure & full wretched soulle, that oure mercyful lorde Iesu chryste clense yt and cure yt with the medycyne of hys mercy.

1461.  Paston, Lett., No. 416, II. 51. To my full worshipfull … maister.

1482.  Inv. of W. Pelle (Somerset Ho.). The Full Reverend Fadur in God John Aichepysshop of Canterbury.

a. 1550.  Christis Kirke Gr., I. iii. Fou ȝellow ȝellow wes hir heid.

1590.  Spenser, F. Q., I. viii. 17. Came hurtling in full fierce.

1613.  Shaks., Hen. VIII., I. i. 133. Anger is like A full hot Horse.

1640.  J. Dyke, Worthy Commun., 56. Full faine wilt thou be to have Christ Jesus to receive thy soule.

1741.  Richardson, Pamela, I. xxiv. 70. And I suppose too, she’ll say, I have been full pert.

1869.  Jean Ingelow, Lily & Lute, II. 104. O, full sweet, and O, full high, Ran that music up the sky.

  b.  with adjs. of quantity or indefinite numerals. Now only arch. in full many.

a. 1300.  Cursor M., 17288 + 39. Ful litel while it was þat he in ioy wald bee.

13[?].  E. E. Allit. P., C. 18. For þay schal comfort encroche in kyþes ful mony.

c. 1330.  R. Brunne, Chron. (1810), 40. Fulle fo [printed so] frendes he had.

c. 1400.  Maundev. (1839), xviii. 198. In that Lond is full mochelle waste.

c. 1450.  Mirour Saluacioun, 1278. [She] lete falle fulle many a tere.

1477.  Norton, Ord. Alch., Proem in Ashm. (1652), 10. Full few Clerks.

1557.  North, trans. Gueuara’s Diall Pr., * ij a, Gen. Prol., Q iv b. Ful few are the pleasures which Princes enioy.

1750.  Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard, xiv. Full many a Gem of purest Ray serene.

1820.  Keats, Eve St. Agnes, v.

1853.  Kingsley, Hypatia, xiv. 168. Philammon would have gone hungry to his couch full many a night.

  c.  with advbs. Now arch., chiefly in full well.

c. 888.  K. Ælfred, Boeth., xxxviii. § 5. Þa men þe habbaþ unhale eaȝan, ne maȝon ful eaþe locian onȝean þa sunnan.

a. 1000.  Byrhtnoth, 311 (Gr.). He ful baldlice beornas lærde.

c. 1175.  Lamb. Hom., 29. Þa iuguleres and þa oðer sottes alle heo habbeð an þonc fulneh.

a. 1225.  Ancr. R., 90. ‘Vbi amor, ibi oculus’; wite þu fulewel.

a. 1300.  Cursor M., 1800 (Gött.). Allas! fule late þai þaim began.

c. 1300.  Harrow. Hell, 99.

1382.  Wyclif, 1 Macc. vi. 62. The kyng … brake fulsoone the ooth that he swore.

c. 1450.  Merlin, 25. Full euell haue ye sped that thus haue slayn youre kynge.

c. 1489.  Caxton, Sonnes of Aymon, i. 35. He thenne kyssed his childe alle bloody full often.

1529.  Frith, Wks. (1573), 98. Christ full lowly and meekely washed his disciples feete.

1600.  Holland, Livy, VIII. xxxviii. (1609), 310. Let them buy it full deerly.

1635.  J. Hayward, trans. Biondi’s Banish’d Virg., 206. Full litle slept the Duke that night.

1667.  Milton, P. L., I. 536. The imperial ensign … full high advanced, Shone like a meteor.

a. 1711.  Ken, Christophil, Poet. Wks. 1721, I. 523.

1782.  Cowper, Gilpin, 70.

1818.  Wordsw., Had this effulgence, iv.

1875.  Helps, Ess., Transact. Business, 73. Those who can seem to forget what they know full well.

  2.  Completely, entirely, fully, quite.

  a.  with adjs., esp. numerals. Also Full due (see quots. 1867 and 1895).

a. 1000.  Boeth. Metr., xxvi. 33. Aulixes … sæt longe þæs tyn winter full.

c. 1340.  Cursor M., 9227 (Trin.). Siþ þis world bigon to be Is foure þousonde six hundride fol.

c. 1374.  Chaucer, Troylus, I. 378. Thus argumentyd he, in his bygynnyng, Ful unavysed of his wo cominge.

1552.  Bk. Com. Prayer, Ordination. Full .xxiiii. yeres olde.

1577.  B. Googe, Heresbach’s Husb., I. (1586), 27. It waxeth greater, and … is within fourtie dayes after ful ripe.

1610.  Shaks., Temp., I. ii. 396.

1653.  Sir E. Nicholas, in The Nicholas Papers (Camden), II. 6. Intending to have him here with her till the K. shall think good otherwise to dispose of his Highness, being now not full 13 years of age.

c. 1710.  C. Fiennes, Diary (1888), 11. We were full an hour passing that hill though with four horses and a Chariot.

1812.  Examiner, 5 Oct., 634/1. New Beans are full 6s. per quarter lower: but old ones fully support their price.

1825.  Cobbett, Rur. Rides, 245. A hill of full a mile high.

1863.  Kingsley, Water Bab., 9. He weighed full fifteen stone.

1867.  Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk., Full due, for good; for ever; complete; belay.

1871.  Palgrave, Lyr. Poems, 35.

1874.  Stubbs, The Constitutional History of England (1875), I. iii. 50. He possesses his land as being a full-free member of the community; henceforth the possession of it is the attestation, type, and embodiment of his freedom and political rights.

1884.  Reade in Harper’s Mag., March, 637/2. ‘I condemned it ten years ago.’ ‘Full that…,’ said Pierre.

1895.  E. Anglian Gloss., Full due, final acquittance, for good and all.

  b.  with advbs. Now rare.

1382.  Wyclif, Josh. vi. 5. And the wallis of the cyte [Jericho] shulen fuldoun falle.

1523.  Ld. Berners, Froiss., I. clxii. 200. Kynge Johan was that day a full right good knyght.

a. 1550[?].  Frere & Boye, 134, in Ritson, Anc. Pop. P., 40.

1746.  Chesterf., Lett. (1792), I. cv. 288. He articulated every word … full loud enough to be heard the whole length of my library.

1833.  Ht. Martineau, Tale of Tyne, vi. 116. Adam, as I told you, I saw full enough of.

  c.  with advbl. phrases. Also in full as, full as (or † so) … as.

1529.  More, A Dialoge of Comfort against Tribulacion, III. Wks. 1215/2. With exercise of suche medytacion, though men shoulde neuer stande full out of feare of fallyng, yet muste they perseuer in good hope.

1670.  Narborough, Jrnl., in Acc. Sev. Late Voy., I. (1711), 52. Some Swans but not full so large as ours.

1698.  J. Fryer, A New Account of East-India and Persia, 215. The Topaz is a Stone very hard, full as hard as the Saphire.

1719.  De Foe, Crusoe, II. vi. They lived, though … concealed, yet full at large.

1752.  Young, Brothers, III. i. To mount full rebel-high.

1762.  Foote, Lyar, II. Wks. 1709, I. 302. You will be full as useful to it by recruiting her subjects at home.

1796.  Mrs. Glasse, Cookery, v. 53. If you do not like the wine, a quart of milk and a quarter of a pound of butter put into the dripping-pan does full as well to baste it.

1825.  in Cobbett, Rur. Rides (1885), II. 38. I should get full as much by keeping it [the story] to myself.

1837.  Ht. Martineau, Soc. Amer., III. 92. To the English reader they are full as interesting as to Americans, from the purity and fidelity of the democratic spirit which they breathe throughout.

  † d.  Ful iwis, fuliwis, to fuliwis: full certainly, for certain, assuredly. Obs.

c. 1200.  Ormin, 2529. Þatt witt tu fuliwiss.

c. 1205.  Lay., 26841. Ich wulle bitachen þe ful iwis minne castel inne Paris.

c. 1220.  Bestiary, 563. Fro ðe noule niùerward ne is ȝe no man like, Oc fis to fuliwis.

c. 1300.  Harrow. Hell, 55.

  e.  Full out: to the full, fully, out and out, quite, thoroughly. Obs. exc. dial.

1382.  Wyclif, Isa. xii. 6. Ful out ioȝe, and preise, thou dwelling of Sion.

a. 1400.  Prymer, Litany, in Maskell, Mon. Rit. (1846–7), II. 106. Lord, make saaf the king: and ful out heere thou us in the dai that we shulen inclepe thee.

a. 1500.  Chaucer’s Dreme, 2138. Archbishop and archdiacre Song full out the servise.

1600.  Abp. Abbot, An Exposition upon the Prophet Jonah (1613), 601. I will not do that iniurie to the Spirit of God, as to doubt but this number must definitely be taken for so many thousands full out: that there were at least of these little ones sixe score completed thousands.

1615.  Bp. Andrewes, Serm. (1629), 485. Sacrilege the Apostle rankes with Idolatrie; as being full out as evill.

1676.  Halley, in Rigaud, Corr. Sci. Men (1841), I. 226. Mr. Mercator is full out as obscure in his treatise of Mars.

1699.  T. C[ockman], Tully’s Offices (1706), 201. And Lucius Crassus … was full-out as generous.

1869.  in Peacock, Lonsdale Gloss., 33.

  3.  Of position and direction: Exactly, directly, straight.

1582.  N. Lichefield, trans. Castanheda’s Conq. E. Ind., lxvii. 137. Our Ordinance beeing shot off, did all light full amongst the enimies, and killed many of them.

1584.  R. Scot, Discov. Witchcr., II. v. (1886), 20. [They] dare not looke a man full in the face.

1632.  Lithgow, Trav., VI. 248. An olde Arch of stone … standing ful in the high Way.

1674.  N. Cox, Gentl. Recreat., III. (1677), 13. Always … shoot … rather side-ways, or behinde the Fowl, than full in their faces.

1698.  J. Fryer, A New Account of East-India and Persia, 25. For which the Winds served them well enough, though full in our Teeth.

1702.  Pope, Jan. & May, 456. Full in the centre of the flow’ry ground A crystal fountain spreads its streams around.

1801.  Southey, Thalaba, X. xvii.

1832.  H. Martineau, Demerara, ii. 16. With these principles full in his mind, he began to observe all that surrounded him.

1883.  E. Ingersoll, in Harper’s Mag., Jan., 196/1. A sudden escape from curtaining oak branches brought us full upon the summit.

  b.  With reference to the points of the compass: DUE. See DUE B. 2. ? Obs.

1559.  W. Cunningham, Cosmogr. Glasse, 146. The mone also, for when as she riseth in th’ East, the seas begin to increase more & more, vntill she commeth to the Meridian Circle, & is full Southe.

1601.  Holland, Pliny, I. 79. Before Zacynthus 35 miles full East, are the two Strophades.

1670.  Eachard, Cont. Clergy, Preface. A Child can never prove a profitable Instructor of the people, unless born when the Sun is in Aries; or brought up in a School that stands full South.

1708.  Brit. Apollo, No. 93. 2/1. The … Wind is … Full East.

1720.  De Foe, Capt. Singleton, ix. (1840), 154. The one [way] was to travel full west, which though it was further to go, yet was not so full of people.

  † 4.  With vbs. or pples.: Fully, completely, entirely, quite, thoroughly. Obs.

c. 900.  trans. Bæda’s Hist., II. xiv. [xvi.] (1890), 144. Bifulcuðum strætum.

1154.  O. E. Chron. an. 1083. Hi comon into capitulan on uppon þa munecas full ȝewepnede.

1340.  Ayenb., 107. Huer-by we ssolle by zuo uol dronke of þine loue þet [etc.].

1430–40.  Lydg., Bochas, I. ix. (1544), 17 a.

1529.  More, A Dialoge of Comfort against Tribulacion, II. 1182/2. Than he feareth that he be neuer full confessed nor neuer full contryte, and than that his sinnes be neuer full forgeuen him.

1611.  Bible, John vii. 8. Goe ye vp vnto this feast: I goe not vp yet vnto this feast, for my time is not yet full come.

1613.  Purchas, Pilgrimage (1614), 508. Our Reader … being before full cloyed with our tedious Narrations.

1697.  Dryden, Virg. Georg., III. 319. When once he’s broken, feed him full and high.

1807.  Med. Jrnl., XVII. 237. He had the small-pox … again very full.

  5.  Comb. † a. with vbs.: full-bring [cf. OFris. ful-branga, Ger. vollbringen] trans. to accomplish; full-burn intr., to blaze forth, follow hotly; full-forth [+ FORTH v.] trans., to accomplish, complete; full-make trans., to complete, perfect; full-serve trans., to serve fully; full-sound intr., to sound loudly; full-timber trans., to build completely; full-thrive intr., to thrive to the full; full-work [OE. full-wyrcan = OHG. fol(l)awurchan] trans., (a) OE. to perpetuate; (b) to complete. Obs.

c. 1200.  Ormin, 16335. Ȝure temmple timmbredd wass, & all *fullbrohht till ende.

1382.  Wyclif, Gen. xxxi. 36. For what my synne, has thow thus *fulbrent [Vulg. exarsists] after me.

c. 1175.  Cott. Hom., 237. His ȝiaf miht and strencþe þurl þe gief of his gaste his hesne to *fulforðie.

c. 1200.  Ormin, 15597. Ær þann þiss temmple mihhte ben Fullwrohht & all fullforþedd.

a. 1300.  E. E. Psalter, xvi[i]. 5. *Fulmake mi steppes in sties Þine.

1490.  Caxton, Eneydos, xxvii. 103. Fulmake thoblacyon to pluto, the grete god of hell.

1340.  Ayenb., 33. And me kan zigge huo þet serueþ and naȝt *uol-serueþ his ssepe he lyest.

1382.  Wyclif, Judg. vii. 18. Whanne the trompe *fulsowneth in myn hoond.

c. 1200.  Ormin, 5130. Swa *fullþrifenn þatt itt nohht Ne maȝȝ na mare waxxenn. Ibid., 16321. Godess temmple … wass i sexe ȝeress all and fowwerrtiȝ *fulltimmbredd.

a. 1035.  Cnut’s Laws, II. c. 61 (Schmid), Gif hwa on fyrde griðbryce *fulwyrce.

c. 1200.  Fullwrohht [see quot. for fullforth above].

  b.  with pres. and pa. pples. (cf. A. 12 b, to which some of these might be referred), as full-accomplished, -acorned, -adjusted, -armed, -assembled, -assured, beaming, -bearing, -born, -bound, -buckramed, -descending, -digested, -distended, † -drive(n, -exerted, -extended, -fashioned, † -fast, -fatted, -fledged, -glowing, † -greased, † -knowing, † -known, -leveled, -manned, -nerved, -plumed, -ripened, -spread, -strained, -trimmed, -tuned, † -waxen; † full-begotten, lawfully begotten, legitimate; full-blown¹, filled with wind, puffed out (lit. and fig.); see BLOW v.¹ 22; full-blown², in full bloom (lit. and fig.); see BLOW v.² 1; full-stated (see quot.).

1726–46.  Thomson, Winter, 669.

1611.  Shaks., Cymb., II. v. 16.

1730–46.  Thomson, Autumn, 834.

1776.  Mickle, trans. Camoens’ Lusiad, I. 31.

1735.  Thomson, Liberty, III. 257.

1839.  Bailey, Festus, xix. (1848), 220. The *full-assured faith.

1735.  Somerville, The Chace, II. 142.

1896.  Daily News, 17 June, 4/5. The thousand acres is never all *full-bearing altogether.

1636.  Rutherford, Lett., lxx. (1862), I. 182. Your Father counteth you not a bastard: *full-begotten bairns are nurtured.

1615.  J. Stephens, Satyr. Ess., 3.

a. 1635.  Naunton, Fragmenta Regalia (Arb.), 15. A time in which (as for externals) she was full blown.

1635–56.  Cowley, Davideis, II. 735.

1693.  Dryden, Persius, I. 254. Who at enormous Villany turns pale, And steers against it with a full-blown Sail.

1699.  Bentley, Phal., 414. Being full blown with the opinion of his wonderfull Acuteness in discovering this rare Expedient.

1749.  Johnson, Vanity Hum. Wishes, 99. In full-blown dignity, see Wolsey stand.

1878.  Browning, La Saisiaz, 123.

1821.  Keats, Lamia, I. 172. Whither fled Lamia, now a lady bright, A *full-born beauty new and exquisite.

1766.  W. Gordon, Gen. Counting-ho., 319. 45 barrels *full bound mess-beef.

1851.  Offic. Catal. Gt. Exhib., II. 545. Bible, 8vo., full-bound in maroon Turkey morocco.

1833.  Ht. Martineau, Berkeley the Banker, I. i. 7. Where could drawers ever be found large enough for the *full-buckramed fancy dresses of the young gentlemen.

1715–20.  Pope, Iliad, XX. 460. The impatient steel with *full-descending sway Forced through his brazen helm its furious way.

1768–74.  Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1852), I. 419. We shall then understand and apprehend, not by our old ideas, but by those of the universal mind, and partake in the expertness and *full-digested remembrance belonging to that.

1728–46.  Thomson, Spring, 186.

c. 1386.  Chaucer, Frankl. T., 502. This bargayn is *ful dryue, for we been knyt.

1726–46.  Thomson, Winter, 171.

1883.  Glasg. Weekly Her., 21 April, 8/2. Ladies’ *full-fashioned black Lisle thread hose.

c. 1175.  Lamb. Hom., 61. Þa odre weren *fulfeste sone.

1382.  Wyclif, Deut. xxxii. 15. Ful fat maad is the loued, and aȝen wynsed; *ful-fattid, fulgresid, outlargid.

1884.  Times (weekly ed.), 7 Nov., 8/2. A tutor’s pay is only about a third of that of a *full-fledged professor.

1895.  Sir W. Harcourt, Sp. in Ho. Com., 14 May. A full-fledged butterfly.

1863.  I. Williams, Baptistery, I. viii. (1874), 89.

1382.  *Ful-gresid [see full-fatted].

1612.  Selden, Drayton’s Poly-olb., To Rdr. What the Verse oft with allusion, as supposing a *full knowing Reader, lets slip.

1386.  Rolls of Parlt., III. 225/1. Nichol Brembre … with stronge honde, as it is *ful knowen … was chosen Mair.

1701.  Norris, Ideal World, I. i. 6. This is looking up directly against the Fons veri lucidus, the bright Source of Intellectual Light and Truth, and staring, with a *full-levell’d Eye, the great Luminary of Spirits in the very Face.

1606.  Shaks., Ant. & Cl., III. vii. 52.

1839.  Bailey, Festus, vii. (1848), 70. Dare with *fullnerved arm the rage of all.

a. 1649.  Drumm. of Hawth., Elegy on G. Adolphus, Wks. (1711), 54.

1861.  Thornbury, Turner (1862), I. 58. These accepted, he will receive the ‘bone,’ or exhibition-ticket, good for so many years; and then he will be a full-plumed Royal Academy student, entitled to compete for admission into the ‘Life School.’

1878.  J. T. Trowbridge, Guy Vernon, II. viii., in A Masque of Poets, 214. Brings To northern shores *full-ripened tropic fruits.

1660.  Dryden, Astræa Redux, 64. With *full-spread sails to run before the wind.

1748.  Thomson, Castl. Indol., I. 209.

1867.  Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk., Full spread, all sail set.

1746.  Exmoor Scolding, 405 (E.D.S.). Ya know es kep Challacomb-Moor in Hond; tes *vull stated. Ibid., Full-stated, spoken of a Leasehold Estate that has Three Lives subsisting thereon.

1757.  Dyer, Fleece, III. 169.

1826.  Scott, Mal. Malagr., ii. 59. A *full-trimmed suit of black silk, or velvet.

1842.  Tennyson, Love & Duty, 40. When thy low voice, Faltering, would break its syllables, to keep My own *full-tuned.

c. 1200.  Ormin, 10890. He wass *fullwaxenn mann.