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One whose occupation is to full cloth. Fuller's earth, a variety of clay, used in scouring and cleansing cloth, to imbibe grease. -- Fuller's herb (Bot.), the soapwort (Saponaria officinalis), formerly used to remove stains from cloth. -- Fuller's thistle or weed (Bot.), the teasel (Dipsacus fullonum) whose burs are…

The place or the works where the fulling of cloth is carried on.

t; as, to abate something from a price. Nine thousand parishes, abating the odd hundreds. Fuller.

A primer; the first principle or rudiment of anything. [R.] Fuller.

Inhuman. [Obs.] Fuller.

; compliance (with). The Christians had no longer abidance in the holy hill of Palestine. Fuller. A judicious abidance by rules. Helps.

Abortive. [Obs.] Fuller.

At the same time; simultaneously. [Obs.] Abreast therewith began a convocation. Fuller.

Obs.] An abrenunciation of that truth which he so long had professed, and still believed. Fuller.

Smollett. She retired herself to Sebaste, and abridged her train from state to necessity. Fuller.

The quality of being abstersive. Fuller.

ated to use the word Parliament improperly, according to the abusive acceptation thereof. Fuller.

not to be taken in that restrictive sense to which the modern acception hath confined it. Fuller. Acception of persons or faces (Eccl.), favoritism; partiality. [Obs.] Wyclif.

onceived it just that accidentals . . . should sink with the substance of the accusation. Fuller.

ce, to sail along the coast or side of. [Obs.] "So much [of Lapland] as accosts the sea." Fuller.

Actively. [Obs.] "Neither actually . . . nor passively." Fuller.

eir minds to speculations. Adventurer. His genius addicted him to the study of antiquity. Fuller. A man gross . . . and addicted to low company. Macaulay.

An addition, or a thing added. Fuller. My persuasion that the latter verses of the chapter were an additament of a later age. Coleridge.

A dependent; an accessory. Fuller.

view with surprise; to marvel at. [Archaic] Examples rather to be admired than imitated. Fuller.