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Full of life and mirth; jovial; joyous; merry; mirthful. Like a jolly troop of huntsmen. Shak. "A jolly place," said he, "in times of old! But something ails it now: the spot is cursed." Wordsworth.

Full of joy; having or causing joy; very glad; as, a joyful heart. "Joyful tidings." Shak. My soul shall be joyful in my God. Is. lxi. 10. Sad for their loss, but joyful of our life. Pope. -- Joy"ful*ly, adv. -- Joy"ful*ness, n.

To moisten; to wet. [Obs.] Fuller.

Full of rushes: resembling rushes; juncaceous. [R.] Johnson.

Eager; vehement; fierce; as, a keen appetite. "Of full kene will." Piers Plowman. So keen and greedy to confound a man. Shak.

Full of kernels; resembling kernels; of the nature of kernels. Holland.

A kiln. [Obs.] Fuller.

thing remains but that I kindle the boy thither. Shak. Kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam. Milton. Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire. Dryden.

manifestation of kind feeling or disposition beneficence. I do fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way. Shak. Unremembered acts Of kindness and of love. Wordsworth.

rnal carnivorous mammal (Cercoleptes caudivolvulus) of South America, about as large as a full-grown cat. It has a prehensile tail and lives in trees. It is the only representative of a distinct family (Cercoleptidæ) allied to the raccoons. Called also potto, and honey bear.

Full of kinks; liable to kink or curl; as, kinky hair.

Full of knots; knaggy.

Knotty; rough; figuratively, rough in temper. Fuller. -- Knag"gi*ness, n.

Having knaps; full of protuberances or humps; knobby. [Obs.] Huloet.

bat; a knightly spirit. For knightly jousts and fierce encounters fit. Spenser. [Excuses] full knightly without scorn. Tennyson.

Containing knobs; full of knobs; ending in a nob. See Illust of Antenna. The horns of a roe deer of Greenland are pointed at the top, and knobbed or tuberous at the bottom. Grew.

Full of, or covered with, knobs or hard protuberances. Dr. H. More.

Full of knots; having knots knurled; as, a knotted cord; the knotted oak. Dryden.

The quality or state of being knotty or full of knots.

Full of knots; knotted; having many knots; as, knotty timber; a knotty rope.