105 
F U L 
woodcocks, and calces, are fiillefl in Xhcfull of the moon. 
Bacon. 
FULL, adv. Without abatement or diminution.—Tlie 
moll judicious writer is fometiiv.es miftaken after all liis 
care; but the hady critic, who judges on a view, \ifuU 
as liable to be deceived. Drydcn. 
A modeft blufli flie wears, not form’d by art; 
Free from deceit his face, and full as free liis heart. 
' Dryden, 
Witli the wliole effeft.—’Tis tlie pencil, throwm luckily 
J'vH upon tlie horfe’s mouth to exprefs the foam, which 
the painter, with .all his (kill, could not perform without 
it. Dryden, — Exadlly : 
Full in the centre of the facred wood, 
An arm arifeth of tlie Stygian flood. ' Addifon. 
Direftly.—He met her full, but full of warefuinefs. 
Sidney. 
He then confronts the bull, 
And on his ample forehead aiming /«//, 
The deadly ftroke defeending pierc’d the flcull. Dryden. 
It is placed before adverbs and adjedlives, to intend or 
ftrength their figniheation : 
Adam was all in tears, and to his guide 
Lamenting turn’d full fad. Milton. 
Full well the god his fifler’s envy knew. 
And what her aims and what her arts purfue. Dryden. 
FULL-A'CORNET 3 , adj. Fed full with acorns.'—Like 
a full-acorn'd boar. Shakefpeare. 
FULL-BLOWN, adj. Spread to the utmoft extent, as 
a perfect bloflbm : 
My glories are part danger ; they’re full-llonm : 
Things, that are blafted, are but in the bud. Denham. 
My full-blown youth already fades apace ; 
Of our fhort being ’tis the fliorteft fpace ! 
Stretched by the wind to the utmofl: extent : 
He who with bold Cratinus is infpir’d, 
With zeal and equal indignation flr’d ; 
Who at enormous villainy turns pale, 
And fleers againfl it with a full bloxijn fail. Dryden. 
FULL-BOT'TOM, f. A full-bottomed wig : 
Adieu, ye bobs ! ye bags, give place. 
Full-bottoms come inllead. Shcnjlone. 
FULL-BOT'TOMED, adj. Having a large bottom.— 
I was obliged to fit at home in my morning-gown, having 
pawned a new fuit of clothes and a full-bottomed wig for a 
fum of money. Guardian. 
FULL-EA'RED, adj. Having the heads full of grain ; 
As flames roll’d by the winds confoiring force. 
O’er full-ear'd corn, or torrents raging courfe. Denham. 
FUI.L-EY'ED, adj. Having large prominent eyes. 
FULL-PED, adj. Sated; fat; laginated : 
All as a partridge plump, full-fed'and fair, ' 
She form’d this image of well-bodied air. Pope. 
FULI,-HE ART'ED, adj. Full of courage.—Theene- 
rtty-full-heat ted. Shakefpeare. 
FUl.L-LA'DEN, adj. Laden ’till there can be no more 
added.—It were unfit that fo excellent a reward as the 
golpel promifes (hould floop down, like fruit upon a Jull- 
ladcn bough, to be plucked by every idle and v/anton 
hand. Tillotfon. 
FULL'-ORBED, adj. Like a full moon ; 
Twelve thoufand crefeents all fliall fwell 
To fulUnb'd pride, and fading die. Mafon. 
FUL,L-SPRE'AD, adj. Spread to the utmofl extent; 
Vol. VIII. N0.487. 
F U L 
How eafy ’tis, when defliny proves k'nd. 
With full-fpread fiWs to run before the wind ; 
But thofe that ’gainft fliff gales laveering go, 
Muft be at once refolv’d and fleilful too. Dryden. 
FULL-SUM'MED, adj. Complete in all its parts.— 
The cedar flretched forth his brandies, and the king of 
b.irds nefted within his leaves, thick feathered, and with 
full-Jummed wings faflening his talons eafl and wefl ; but 
now the eagle is become half n.iked. Howcl. 
FULL'-WlNGED, adj. Having full wings : 
And often to our comfort fliall we find 
The fliarded beetle in a fafer hold, 
Than is the full-win f d eagle. Shakefpeare. 
To FULI., v.a. \_fullo, Lat.] To cleanfe cloth from 
its oil and greafe. 
FULL'AGE, f. The money paid for fulling or cleanf- 
ing cloth. 
FULL'ER,yi [fullo, Lat.] One whofe trade is to 
cleanfe cloth.—His raiment became fliining, exceeding 
white as fnow ; fo as no fuller on earth can whiten them. 
Mar. ix. 3. 
The clothiers have put off 
The fpinflers, CAidtrs, fullers, weavers. Shakefpeare. 
FUL'LER (Nicholas), a learned Englifh divine in the 
latter end of the fixteenth and beginning of the fevei’. 
teenth century, born at Southampton, in 1557. He was 
educated in clallical learning at the free-fehool m that 
town, from whence he was taken into the family of Dr. 
Horne, bifhop ofWinchefier, and was made fecretary to 
that prelate. The fame poll was filled by him under Dr. 
Watfon, the fucceflbr of Dr. Horne; but upon his deatli 
within about three months after his advancement, Fuller 
determined to retire from that fituation, and became tutor 
to the foils of a knight in Hampfliire, two of whom he ac¬ 
companied to Oxford in 1584, and was matriculated at 
the fame time with them, as a member of St. John’s col¬ 
lege. Having taken both his degrees in arts, lie left the 
univerfity, and retired to his native town ; and foon af¬ 
terwards he was admitted to orders, and prefented wiih 
the fniall redtory of Allington, near Ambrefbury, in. 
Wiltlliire. He was alfo made a prebendary of Salifbury ; 
and was afterwards preferred by the billiop of Winchefler 
to the valuable redlory of Bilhop’s-Waltliam, in Hamp¬ 
fliire, where he died in 1622-3, aged (ixty-five years. He 
was tlie author ot Mifcellar.ea Theologica, lib. iii. firft 
printed at Heidelberg, in 161 2, in Svo. and afterwards at 
Oxford, with the addition of a fourth book, in 1616, and 
at London in 1617. Thefe Mifc'Uanca having fallen into 
the hands of the celebrated Drufius, lie accufed the au. 
thor of plagiarifm, in taking many of the belt remarks in 
them out of his works, wiiliout making any acknowledg¬ 
ment of his obligations. Againfl this charge Fuller fatif- 
faflorily vindicated himfelf in his Mifcellunea Sacra, cum 
Apologia contra V. Cl. Johan. Drnfum, publifiied at Leyden 
in 1622, 4to. and conlifting, belides the author’s defence 
of himfelf, of two additional books to his former work. 
Tlicfe Mifcellanea are inferted in the ninth volume of the 
Critici Sacri, and difperfed throughout the whole of Pool’s 
Synopfs Criticorum. Fuller was alfo the author of an Ex- 
pofition of Rabbi Mordecai Natlian’s Hebrew Roots, with 
Notes; and a Lexicon ; both which remain in MS, in the 
Bodleian library at Oxford, and are honourable memo¬ 
rials of the author’s erudition and induftry. 
FUL'LER (Nicholas), a contemporary of the preceding, 
who was educated at Emanuel college, Cambridge, to 
which he was a benefadtor. He became a counfellorof 
fome eminence, and a bencher of Gray’s-inn, in London. 
He had the boldnefs to refift, in his profeliional charadler, 
the illegal and oppreflive proceedings of archbifliop Ban. 
croft, and his' brethren of the high-comniiflion court, 
againfl a minifler of Yarmouth, and a merchant of that 
town, who were imprifoned for being prefent at a pretend- 
E e ed 
