Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FULL, n.

1. Complete measure; utmost extent. This instrument answers to the full.
2. The highest state or degree. The swan's down feather, / That steeds upon the swell at full of tide. Shak.
3. The whole; the total; in the phrase, at full. Shak.
4. The state of satiety; as, fed to the full. The full of the moon, is the time when it presents to the spectator its whole face illuminated, as it always does when in opposition to the sun.