Fuller
['fʊlə] or [fʊlɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a workman who fulls (cleans and thickens) freshly woven cloth for a living.
(noun.) United States architect who invented the geodesic dome (1895-1983).
(noun.) United States jurist and chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1833-1910).
Typist: Marcus--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) One whose occupation is to full cloth.
(a.) A die; a half-round set hammer, used for forming grooves and spreading iron; -- called also a creaser.
(v. t.) To form a groove or channel in, by a fuller or set hammer; as, to fuller a bayonet.
Editor: Natasha
Definition
n. a half-round set-hammer.
Checked by Felicia
Examples
- Language gives a fuller image, which is all the better for beings vague. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of faults than I had imagined; but I had the satisfaction of seeing them diminish. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- He felt his limbs growing fuller and flexible with life, his body gained an unknown strength. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Here, therefore, promises come naturally in play, and are often required for fuller satisfaction and security. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- As for Rosamond, she was in the water-lily's expanding wonderment at its own fuller life, and she too was spinning industriously at the mutual web. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- With the invention of writing, which developed out of pictorial record, human tradition was able to become fuller and much more exact. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Her eyes were bright, their pupils dilated, her cheeks seemed rosier, and fuller than usual. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I wish I had space here to give a fuller abstract of Mr. Agassiz's interesting observations on the development of the pedicellariae. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- A little older she looks; her form a little fuller; her air more matronly than of yore; but evidently contented and happy as woman need be. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- He is fuller of boredom than a steer drawing a cart on the highroad. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I should like to have fuller knowledge about him, uncle, and judge for myself, if Mr. Casaubon has not left any expression of his wishes. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- You are probably aware that fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found in one or two places in England? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- His ideas are not clean, Mr. Moore; they want scouring with soft soap and fuller's earth. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Her whole soul was possessed by the fact that a fuller life was opening before her: she was a neophyte about to enter on a higher grade of initiation. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- One sets out to give his impulses for communication and for fuller intercourse with others a show. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
Edited by Cathryn