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Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick. Cheerily, boys; be brick awhile. Shak. Brick toil alternating with ready ease. Wordworth.

Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full. "Broad and open day." Bp. Porteus.

ndependent in itself when organized, and consists of members meeting in one place, having full power to elect and depose its officers.

earnestness; -- generally used reflexively. Cartwright buckled himself to the employment. Fuller.

To send off abruptly or without ceremony. They unmercifully bundled me and my gallant second into our own hackney coach. T. Hook. To bundle off, to send off in a hurry, or without ceremony. -- To bundle one's self up, to wrap one's self up warmly or cumbrously.

Full of bushes; overgrowing with shrubs. Dingle, or bushy dell, of this wild wood. Milton.

A kind of pad or cushion worn on the back below the waist, by women, to give fullness to the skirts; -- called also bishop, and tournure.

o insolent that he could not go but either spurning equals or trampling on his inferiors. Fuller. Touch not the cat but a glove. Motto of the Mackintoshes.

piece of iron or steel, or of separate pieces, without having them overlap. See Weld. -- Full butt, headfirst with full force. [Colloq.] "The corporal . . . ran full butt at the lieutenant." Marryat.

A circular saw; -- so called from the buzzing it makes when running at full speed.

A private corner. Britain being a by-corner, out of the road of the world. Fuller.

] The Synod of Dort condemneth upon the bye even the discipline of the Church of England. Fuller.

Same as Cabinet, n., 4 (of which body it was formerly the full title). (b) A meeting of the cabinet. -- Cabinet councilor, a member of a cabinet council. -- Cabinet photograph, a photograph of a size smaller than an imperial, though larger than a carte de visite. -- Cabinet picture, a small and generally highly fini…

Showing the full face, but nothing of the neck; -- said of the head of a beast in armorial bearing. [Written also caboshed.]

anguage as the majority of the members of a diocese or congregation. This plan was successfully opposed by the American party in the Church.

erize without strict regard to fact; as, they call the distance ten miles; he called it a full day's work. [The] army is called seven hundred thousand men. Brougham.

Having a back like a camel; humpbacked. Fuller.

Fretfully; spitefully.

Like a canker; full of canker.

to be worn by a clergyman when oficiating. Sometimes, any distinctive professional dress. Full canonicals, the complete costume of an officiating clergyman or ecclesiastic.