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Abounding with fish. [R.] "My fishful pond." R. Carew.

Full of fits; irregularly variable; impulsive and unstable. After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well. Shak. -- Fit"ful*ly, adv. -- Fit"ful*ness, n. The victorius trumpet peal Dies fitfully away. Macaulay.

Abounding with flowers. Craig.

A poisonous mushroom (Amanita muscaria, syn. Agaricus muscarius), having usually a bright red or yellowish cap covered with irregular white spots. It has a distinct volva at the base, generally an upper ring on the stalk, and white spores. Called also fly agaric, deadly amanita.

Full of folly. [Obs.]

Full of food; supplying food; fruitful; fertile. "The foodful earth." Dryden. Bent by its foodful burden [the corn]. Glover.

Full of or processing force; exerting force; mighty. -- Force"ful*ly, adv. Against the steed he threw His forceful spear. Dryden.

Foresighted. [Obs.]

Having forethought. [R.]

Apt to forget; easily losing remembrance; as, a forgetful man should use helps to strengthen his memory.

In a forgetful manner.

The quality of being forgetful; prononess to let slip from the mind.

Creative; imaginative. [R.] "The formful brain." Thomson.

Full of fountains. Pope.

Full of fraud, deceit, or treachery; trickish; treacherous; fraudulent; -- applied to persons or things. I. Taylor. -- Fraud"ful*ly, adv.

Disposed to fret; ill-humored; peevish; angry; in a state of vexation; as, a fretful temper. -- Fret"ful-ly, adv. -- Fret"ful-ness, n.

Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. [Obs.] See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne.

In a frightful manner; to a frightful dagree.

The quality of being frightful.

Brisk; lively; frolicsome.