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akin to OS. ful, D. vol, OHG. fol, G. voll, Icel. fullr, Sw. full, Dan. fuld, Goth. fulls, L. plenus, Gr. p, pr to fill, also to Gr. poly-, pref., G. viel, AS. fela. sq. root80. Cf. Complete, Fill, 1. Filled up, having within its limits all that

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akin to OS. ful, D. vol, OHG. fol, G. voll, Icel. fullr, Sw. full, Dan. fuld, Goth. fulls, L. plenus, Gr. p, pr to fill, also to Gr. poly-, pref., G. viel, AS. fela. sq. root80. Cf. Complete, Fill, 1. Filled up, having within its limits all that it can contain; supplied; not empty or vacant; -- said primarily of hollow vessels, and hence of anything else; as, a cup full of water; a house full of people. Had the throne been full, their meeting would not have been regular. Blackstone. 2. Abundantly furnished or provided; sufficient in. quantity, quality, or degree; copious; plenteous; ample; adequate; as, a full meal; a full supply; a full voice; a full compensation; a house full of furniture. 3. Not wanting in any essential quality; complete, entire; perfect; adequate; as, a full narrative; a person of full age; a full stop; a full face; the full moon. It came to pass, at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed. Gen. xii. 1. The man commands Like a full soldier. Shak. I can not Request a fuller satisfaction Than you have freely granted. Ford. 4. Sated; surfeited. I am full of the burnt offerings of rams. Is. i. 11. 5. Having the mind filled with ideas; stocked with knowledge; stored with information. Reading maketh a full man. Bacon. 6. Having the attention, thoughts, etc., absorbed in any matter, and the feelings more or less excited by it, as, to be full of some project. Every one is full of the miracles done by cold baths on decayed and weak constitutions. Locke. 7. Filled with emotions. The heart is so full that a drop overfills it. Lowell. 8. Impregnated; made pregnant. Ilia, the fair, . . . full of Mars. Dryden. At full, when full or complete. Shak. -- Full age the age at which one attains full personal rights; majority; -- in England and the United States the age of 21 years. Abbott. -- Full and by , sailing closehauled, having all the sails full, and lying as near the wind as poesible. -- Full band , a band in which all the instruments are employed. -- Full binding, the binding of a book when made wholly of leather, as distinguished from half binding. -- Full bottom, a kind of wig full and large at the bottom. -- Full brother or sister, a brother or sister having the same parents as another. -- Full cry , eager chase; -- said of hounds that have caught the scent, and give tongue together. -- Full dress, the dress prescribed by authority or by etiquette to be worn on occasions of ceremony. -- Full hand , three of a kind and a pair. -- Full moon. The moon with its whole disk illuminated, as when opposite to the sun. The time when the moon is full. -- Full organ , the organ when all or most stops are out. -- Full score , a score in which all the parts for voices and instruments are given. -- Full sea, high water. -- Full swing, free course; unrestrained liberty; "Leaving corrupt nature to . . . the full swing and freedom of its own extravagant actings." South -- In full, at length; uncontracted; unabridged; written out in words, and not indicated by figures. -- In full blast. See under Blast.

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  • OVERFLOWINGLY
    In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.
  • STORER
    One who lays up or forms a store.
  • MULTIFARIOUS
    Having parts, as leaves, arranged in many vertical rows. (more info) 1. Having multiplicity; having great diversity or variety; of various kinds; diversified; made up of many differing parts; manifold. There is a multifarious artifice
  • STOCKER
    One who makes or fits stocks, as of guns or gun carriages, etc.
  • LAVISHNESS
    The quality or state of being lavish.
  • PLENTIFUL
    1. Containing plenty; copious; abundant; ample; as, a plentiful harvest; a plentiful supply of water. 2. Yielding abundance; prolific; fruitful. If it be a long winter, it is commonly a more plentiful year. Bacon. 3. Lavish; profuse; prodigal.
  • STOCKWORK
    A system of working in ore, etc., when it lies not in strata or veins, but in solid masses, so as to be worked in chambers or stories.
  • PERFECT
    Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; -- said of flower. Perfect cadence , a complete and satisfactory close in harmony, as upon the tonic preceded by the dominant. -- Perfect chord , a concord or union of sounds which is perfectly
  • TOTALIS
    The total. I look on nothing but totalis. B. Jonson.
  • LAVISHER
    One who lavishes.
  • ACCUMULATE
    To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money. Syn. -- To collect; pile up; store; amass; gather; aggregate; heap together; hoard.
  • LIBERALIZE
    To make liberal; to free from narrow views or prejudices. To open and to liberalize the mind. Burke.
  • EVERYWHERENESS
    Ubiquity; omnipresence. Grew.
  • INTEGRAL
    1. Lacking nothing of completeness; complete; perfect; uninjured; whole; entire. A local motion keepeth bodies integral. Bacon. 2. Essential to completeness; constituent, as a part; pertaining to, or serving to form, an integer; integrant. Ceasing
  • TREASURER
    One who has the care of a treasure or treasure or treasury; an officer who receives the public money arising from taxes and duties, or other sources of revenue, takes charge of the same, and disburses it upon orders made by the proper authority;
  • EVERYWHERE
    In every place; in all places; hence, in every part; throughly; altogether.
  • BOUNTIFUL
    1. Free in giving; liberal in bestowing gifts and favors. God, the bountiful Author of our being. Locke. 2. Plentiful; abundant; as, a bountiful supply of food. Syn. -- Liberal; munificent; generous; bounteous. -- Boun"ti*ful*ly, adv.
  • STOCK-BLIND
    Blind as a stock; wholly blind.
  • EQUALIZER
    One who, or that which, equalizes anything.
  • CROWD
    1. To push, to press, to shove. Chaucer. 2. To press or drive together; to mass together. "Crowd us and crush us." Shak. 3. To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity. The balconies and verandas
  • UNCAPABLE
    Incapable. "Uncapable of conviction." Locke.
  • UNEXAMPLED
    Having no example or similar case; being without precedent; unprecedented; unparalleled. "A revolution . . . unexampled for grandeur of results." De Quincey.
  • INSUFFICIENTLY
    In an insufficient manner or degree; unadequately.
  • INCAPABLE
    Unqualified or disqualified, in a legal sense; as, a man under thirty-five years of age is incapable of holding the office of president of the United States; a person convicted on impeachment is thereby made incapable of holding an office of profit
  • ARCHTREASURER
    A chief treasurer. Specifically, the great treasurer of the German empire.
  • TRANSPARENT
    transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
  • UNEQUALABLE
    Not capable of being equaled or paralleled. Boyle.
  • ILLIBERALISM
    Illiberality.
  • UPHOARD
    To hoard up. Shak.
  • INEQUALITY
    An expression consisting of two unequal quantities, with the sign of inequality between them; as, the inequality 2 < 3, or 4 > 1. (more info) 1. The quality of being unequal; difference, or want of equality, in any respect; lack of uniformity;

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