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FULL a. 13 definitions

Impregnated; made pregnant. [Obs.] Ilia, the fair, . . . full of Mars. Dryden. At full, when full or complete. Shak. -- Full age (Law) the age at which one attains full personal rights; majority; -- in England and the United States the age of 21 years. Abbott. -- Full and by (Naut.), sailing closehauled, having all t…

FULL-BLOWN a. 2 definitions

Fully distended with wind, as a sail. Dryden.

FULSOME a. 3 definitions

ng to obscenity. [Obs.] "Fulsome ewes." Shak. -- Ful"some*ly, adv. -- Ful"some*ness, n. Dryden.

FUMBLE v. 4 definitions

To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly; as, to fumble for an excuse. Dryden. My understanding flutters and my memory fumbles. Chesterfield. Alas! how he fumbles about the domains. Wordsworth.

FUME n. 11 definitions

he fumes of tobacco. The fumes of new shorn hay. T. Warton. The fumes of undigested wine. Dryden.

FUMIGATE v. 2 definitions

To smoke; to perfume. Dryden.

FURRY a. 3 definitions

Consisting of fur; as, furry spoils. Dryden.

FURTHER v. 4 definitions

; to advance; to forward; to help or assist. This binds thee, then, to further my design. Dryden. I should nothing further the weal public. Robynsom (More's Utopia).

GABBLE v. 4 definitions

To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity; as, gabbling fowls. Dryden.

GAIN v. 10 definitions

hou hast gained thy brother. Matt. xviii. 15. To gratify the queen, and gained the court. Dryden.

GALL n. 11 definitions

hath . . . compassed me with gall and travail. Lam. iii. 5. Comedy diverted without gall. Dryden.

, containing four quarts; -- used, for the most part, in liquid measure, but sometimes in dry measure.

GAMBOL n. 2 definitions

A skipping or leaping about in frolic; a hop; a sportive prank. Dryden.

GAMMON v. 7 definitions

To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke.

GAPE v. 8 definitions

Expressing a desire for food; as, young birds gape. Dryden.

Having interstices between the teeth. Dryden.

GASP v. 4 definitions

with gasps; -- with forth, out, away, etc. And with short sobs he gasps away his breath. Dryden.

GATHER v. 15 definitions

harvest; to harvest; to cull; to pick off; to pluck. A rose just gathered from the stalk. Dryden. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles Matt. vii. 16. Gather us from among the heathen. Ps. cvi. 47.

Finery; ornaments; ostentatious display. [R.] "Tarnished gaudery." Dryden.

GAUNTLET n. 4 definitions

A rope on which hammocks or clothes are hung for drying. To take up the gauntlet, to accept a challenge. -- To throw down the gauntlet, to offer or send a challenge. The gauntlet or glove was thrown down by the knight challenging, and was taken up by the one who accepted the challenge; -- hence the phrases.…