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An audience; an assembly of hearers, as at a lecture, a theater, etc.; as, a thin or a full house.

to economize. Conferred those moneys on the nuns, which since they have well housewived. Fuller.

Full of hubs or protuberances; as, a road that has been frozen while muddy is hubby. [U.S.]

A close embrace or clasping with the arms, as in affection or in wrestling. Fuller.

er-mugger, with haste and secrecy. [Archaic] Many things have been done in hugger-mugger. Fuller.

A vitiated or morbid animal fluid, such as often causes an eruption on the skin. "A body full of humors." Sir W. Temple.

Full of humor; jocular; exciting laughter; playful; as, a humorous story or author; a humorous aspect.

Full of humps or bunches; covered with protuberances; humped.

To twist or turn. "Hurled or crooked feet." [Obs.] Fuller.

ittle time is left me, and may I be a good husband, to improve the short remnant left me. Fuller.

e fact; exceeding the truth; as, an hyperbolical expression. "This hyperbolical epitaph." Fuller. Hyperbolic functions (Math.), certain functions which have relations to the hyperbola corresponding to those which sines, cosines, tangents, etc., have to the circle; and hence, called hyperbolic sines, hyperbolic cosines,…

A peculiar, or individual, characteristic or affection. All men are so full of their own fancies and idiopathies, that they scarce have the civility to interchange any words with a stranger. Dr. H. More.

rom birth; a natural fool; a natural; an innocent. Life . . . is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. Shak.

l insnareth the souls of many men, by illuring them with the muck and dung of this world. Fuller.

Etym: [A word not fully approved, but sometimes used for the adverb ill.]

Given to imagining; full of images, fancies, etc.; having a quick imagination; conceptive; creative. Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind. Coleridge.

Not mature; unripe; not arrived at perfection of full development; crude; unfinished; as, immature fruit; immature character; immature plans. "An ill-measured and immature counsel." Bacon.

The state or quality of being immature or not fully developed; unripeness; incompleteness. When the world has outgrown its intellectual immaturity. Caird.

d time was abandoned and the principle substituted that rights which had been enjoyed for full twenty years (or as against the crown thirty years) should not be liable to impeachment merely by proving that they had not been enjoyed before.

a threatening, as of something about to happen. The imminence of any danger or distress. Fuller.