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A false die. [Cant] [Written also fullam.] Shak.

See Fullness.

Full; abundant; plenteous; not shriveled. [Obs.] His lean, pale, hoar, and withered corpse grew fulsome, fair, and fresh. Golding.

Producing fumes; full of fumes. Garlic, onions, mustard, and such-like fumous things. Barough (1625).

A store laid up, from which one may draw at pleasure; a supply; a full provision of resources; as, a fund of wisdom or good sense. An inexhaustible fund of stories. Macaulay. Sinking fund, the aggregate of sums of money set apart and invested, usually at fixed intervals, for the extinguishment of the debt of a governme…

Full of rage. [Obs.] G. Harvey.

apable of being future; possible to occur. [R.] Not only to things future, but futurable. Fuller.

Agate. [Obs.] Fuller.

rch by this . . . when the desk whereon the priest read was inlaid with plates of silver. Fuller.

Full of game or games.

Full of gashes; hideous; frightful. [Obs.] "A gashful, horrid, ugly shape." Gayton.

Full of gas; like gas. Hence: [Colloq.] Inflated; full of boastful or insincere talk.

In the manner of a gate. Three circles of stones set up gatewise. Fuller.

Full of gayety. Mir. for Mag.

.] All these the king granted unto them . . . free from all gelts and payments, in a most full and ample manner. Fuller.

Full of gems; bright; glittering like a gem. The gemmy bridle glittered free. Tennyson.

Full of spirit or strength; stimulating; exalting; as, generous wine.

To strike aghast; to affright. [Obs.] Ghasted by the noise I made. Full suddenly he fled. Shak.

In a ghastly manner; hideously. Staring full ghastly like a strangled man. Shak.

rinity. -- To give up or yield up the ghost, to die; to expire. And he gave up the ghost full softly. Chaucer. Jacob . . . yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people. Gen. xlix. 33.