Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FULL-LA-DEN, a.

Laden to the full.

FULL-MAN-NED, a.

Completely furnished with men.

FULL'MI-NATE, v.t.

1. To utter or send out, as a denunciation or censure; to send out, as a menace or censure by ecclesiastical authority. Warburton. Ayliffe.
2. To cause to explode. Sprat.

FULL-MOUTH-ED, a.

Having a full or strong voice.

FULL'NESS, n. [from full.]

1. The state of being filled, so as to leave no part vacant.
2. The state of abounding or being in great plenty; abundance.
3. Completeness; the state of a thing in which nothing is wanted; perfection. In thy presence is fullness of joy. Ps. xvi.
4. Repletion; satiety; as from intemperance. Taylor
5. Repletion of vessels; as, fullness of blood.
6. Plenty; wealth; affluence. Shak.
7. Struggling perturbation; swelling; as, the fullness of the heart.
8. Largeness; extent. There wanted the fullness of a plot, and variety of characters to form it as it ought. Dryden.
9. Loudness; force of sound, such as fills the ear. Pope.

FULL-ORB-ED, a.

Having the orb complete or fully illuminated, as the moon; like the full moon. Addison. Mason.

FULL'SOME, a. [Sax. ful, foul or full.]

Gross; disgusting by plainness, grossness or excess; as, fullsome flattery or praise.

FULL'SOME-LY, adv.

Grossly; with disgusting plainness or excess.

FULL'SOME-NESS, n.

Offensive grossness, as of praise. [These are the senses of this word and the only senses used in New England, as far as my knowledge extends.]

FULL-SPREAD, a.

Extended to the utmost. Dryden.

FULL-STOM-ACH-ED, a.

Having the stomach crammed.

FULL-STUF-FED, a.

Filled to the utmost extent. Drayton.

FULL-SUM-MED, a.

Complete in all its parts. Howell.

FULL-WING-ED, a.

1. Having complete wings, or large strong wings. Shak.
2. Ready for fight; eager. Beaum.

FULLY, adv.

1. Completely; entirely; without lack or defect; in a manner to give satisfaction; to the extent desired; as, to be fully persuaded of the truth of a proposition.
2. Completely; perfectly. Things partially known in this life will be hereafter fully disclosed.

FUL'MAR, n.

1. A fowl of the genus Procellaria, or petrel kind, larger than a gull, possessing the singular faculty of spouting from its bill a quantity of pure oil against its adversary. It is an inhabitant of the Hebrides; it feeds on the fat of whales, and when one of them is taken, will perch on it even when alive and pick out pieces of flesh. Dict, of Nat. Hist.
2. The foulemart or fulimart. [See Foumart.]

FUL'MI-NANT, a. [Fr. from L. fulminans.]

Thundering.

FUL'MI-NATE, v.i. [L. fulmino, from fulmen, thunder, from a root in Bl, which signifies to throw or to burst forth.]

1. To thunder. Davies.
2. To make a loud sudden noise, or a sudden sharp crack; to detonate; as, fulminating gold. Boyle.
3. To hurl papal thunder; to issue forth ecclesiastical censures, as the pope. Herbert.

FUL'MI-NA-TING, ppr.

1. Thundering; crackling; exploding; detonating.
2. Hurling papal denunciations, menaces or censures. Fulminating powder, a detonating compound of sulphur, carbonate of potash and niter.

FUL-MI-NA'TION, n.

1. A thundering.
2. Denunciation of censure or threats, as by papal authority. The fulminations from the Vatican were turned into ridicule. Ayliffe.
3. The explosion of certain chimical preparations; detonation. Encyc.

FUL'MI-NA-TO-RY, a.

Thundering; striking terror. Johnson.

FUL'MINE, v.t.

To thunder. [Not in use.] Spenser. Milton.

FUL-MIN'IC, a.

Fulminic acid, in chimistry, is a peculiar acid contained in fulminating silver. Henry.

FUL'SOME, a. [Sax. ful, foul.]

1. Nauseous; offensive. He that brings fulsome objects to my view, / With nauseous images my fancy fills. Roscommon.
2. Rank; offensive to the smell; as, a rank and fulsome smell. Bacon.
3. Lustful; as, fulsome ewes. Shak.
4. Tending to obscenity; as, a fulsome epigram. Dryden. These are the English definitions of fulsome, but I have never witnessed such applications of the word in the United States. It seems then that full and foul are radically the same word, the primary sense of which is stuffed, crowded, from the sense of putting on or in. In the United States, the compound fullsome takes its signification from full, in the sense of cloying or satiating, and in England, fulsome takes its predominant sense from foulness.

FUL'SOME-LY, adv.

Rankly; nauseously; obscenely. Eng.