sm fuller

noun

George, 1822–84, U.S. painter.

Henry B(lake) ( "Stanton Page" ) 1857–1929, U.S. novelist, poet, and critic.

Melville Wes·ton

[wes-tuh

n] , 1833–1910, Chief justice of the U.S. 1888–1910.

R(ichard) Buckminster, 1895–1983, U.S. engineer, designer, and architect.

(Sarah) Margaret ( Marchioness Ossoli ) 1810–50, U.S. author and literary critic.

Thomas, 1608–61, English clergyman and historian.

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World English Dictionary

fuller¹ (ˈfʊlə)

—n
	a person who fulls cloth for his living

[Old English fullere, from Latin fullō]

fuller² (ˈfʊlə)

—n
1.	Also called: fullering tool a tool for forging a groove
2.	a tool for caulking a riveted joint

—vb
3.	(tr) to forge (a groove) or caulk (a riveted joint) with a fuller

[C19: perhaps from the name Fuller]

Fuller (ˈfʊlə)

—n
1.	(Richard) Buckminster. 1895--1983, US architect and engineer: developed the geodesic dome
2.	Roy (Broadbent). 1912--91, British poet and writer, whose collections include The Middle of a War (1942) and A Lost Season (1944), both of which are concerned with World War II, Epitaphs and Occasions (1949), and Available for Dreams (1989)
3.	Thomas. 1608--61, English clergyman and antiquarian; author of The Worthies of England (1662)

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Word Origin & History

fuller

"one who fulls cloth," O.E. fullere, from L. fullo (see full (v.)).

Easton

Bible Dictionary

Fuller definition

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.

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"A girl stood before him in midstream, alone and still, gazing out to sea. She seemed like one whom magic had changed into the likeness of a strange and beautiful seabird. Her long slender bare legs were delicate as a crane's and pure save where an emerald trail of seaweed had fashioned itself as a sign upon the flesh. Her thighs, fuller and softhued as ivory, were bared almost to the hips where white fringes of her drawers were like featherings of soft white down. Her slateblue skirts were kilted boldly about her waist and dovetailed behind her. Her bosom was as a bird's soft and slight, slight and soft as the breast of some darkplumaged dove. But her long fair hair was girlish: and girlish, and touched with the wonder of mortal beauty, her face."

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