[foo
l-er] 
| a person who fulls cloth. |
[fool-er] | 1. | a half-round hammer used for grooving and spreading iron. |
| 2. | a tool or part of a die for reducing the sectional area of a piece of work. |
| 3. | a groove running along the flat of a sword blade. |
| 4. | to reduce the sectional area of (a piece of metal) with a fuller or fullers. |
[fool-er] | 1. | George, 1822–84, U.S. painter. |
| 2. | Henry B(lake), (“Stanton Page”), 1857–1929, U.S. novelist, poet, and critic. |
| 3. | Melville Wes⋅ton [wes-tuhn] , 1833–1910, Chief Justice of the U.S. 1888–1910. |
| 4. | R(ichard) Buckminster, 1895–1983, U.S. engineer, designer, and architect. |
| 5. | (Sarah) Margaret (Marchioness Ossoli), 1810–50, U.S. author and literary critic. |
| 6. | Thomas, 1608–61, English clergyman and historian. |
[fool] adjective, -er, -est, adverb, verb, noun | 1. | completely filled; containing all that can be held; filled to utmost capacity: a full cup. |
| 2. | complete; entire; maximum: a full supply of food for a three-day hike. |
| 3. | of the maximum size, amount, extent, volume, etc.: a full load of five tons; to receive full pay. |
| 4. | (of garments, drapery, etc.) wide, ample, or having ample folds. |
| 5. | abundant; well-supplied: a yard full of litter; a cabinet full of medicine. |
| 6. | filled or rounded out, as in form: a full bust. |
| 7. | engrossed; occupied (usually fol. by of): She was full of her own anxieties. |
| 8. | of the same parents: full brothers. |
| 9. | Music. ample and complete in volume or richness of sound. |
| 10. | (of wines) having considerable body. |
| 11. | Baseball.
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| 12. | being slightly oversized, as a sheet of glass cut too large to fit into a frame. |
| 13. | Poker. of or pertaining to the three cards of the same denomination in a full house: He won the hand with a pair of kings and sixes full. |
| 14. | exactly or directly: The blow struck him full in the face. |
| 15. | very: You know full well what I mean. |
| 16. | fully, completely, or entirely; quite; at least: The blow knocked him full around. It happened full 30 years ago. |
| 17. | Sewing.
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| 18. | (of the moon) to become full. |
| 19. | the highest or fullest state, condition, or degree: The moon is at the full. |
| 20. | in full,
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| 21. | to the full, to the greatest extent; thoroughly: They enjoyed themselves to the full. |
rēs| full 1 (fŏŏl) adj. full·er, full·est
v. tr. To make (a garment) full, as by pleating or gathering. v. intr. To become full. Used of the moon. n.
[Middle English ful, from Old English full; see pelə-1 in Indo-European roots.] full'ness, ful'ness n. |
| full·er 1 (fŏŏl'ər) n. One that fulls cloth. |
| full·er 2 (fŏŏl'ər) n.
[Possibly from full1, to pleat.] |
| Ful·ler (fŏŏl'ər) American jurist who served as the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1888-1910) and maintained that governmental powers must derive from a strict interpretation of the Constitution. |
| Fuller, R (ichard) American architect and inventor who sought to solve practical problems with simple designs that require a minimum of materials and energy. The geodesic dome is his best-known invention. |
| Fuller, (Sarah) American writer and critic who edited the transcendentalist periodical Dial (1840-1842), was a pioneering literary critic for the New York Tribune (1844-1846), and wrote Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845), a major feminist tract. |
Fuller
The word "full" is from the Anglo-Saxon fullian, meaning "to whiten." To full is to press or scour cloth in a mill. This art is one of great antiquity. Mention is made of "fuller's soap" (Mal. 3:2), and of "the fuller's field" (2 Kings 18:17). At his transfiguration our Lord's rainment is said to have been white "so as no fuller on earth could white them" (Mark 9:3). En-rogel (q.v.), meaning literally "foot-fountain," has been interpreted as the "fuller's fountain," because there the fullers trod the cloth with their feet.