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Full bottom (gcide) | Full \Full\ (f[.u]l), a. [Compar. Fuller (f[.u]l"[~e]r);
superl. Fullest.] [OE. & AS. ful; akin to OS. ful, D. vol,
OHG. fol, G. voll, Icel. fullr, Sw. full, Dan. fuld, Goth.
fulls, L. plenus, Gr. plh`rhs, Skr. p[=u][.r]na full, pr[=a]
to fill, also to Gr. poly`s much, E. poly-, pref., G. viel,
AS. fela. [root]80. Cf. Complete, Fill, Plenary,
Plenty.]
1. Filled up, having within its limits all that it can
contain; supplied; not empty or vacant; -- said primarily
of hollow vessels, and hence of anything else; as, a cup
full of water; a house full of people.
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Had the throne been full, their meeting would not
have been regular. --Blackstone.
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2. Abundantly furnished or provided; sufficient in quantity,
quality, or degree; copious; plenteous; ample; adequate;
as, a full meal; a full supply; a full voice; a full
compensation; a house full of furniture.
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3. Not wanting in any essential quality; complete; entire;
perfect; adequate; as, a full narrative; a person of full
age; a full stop; a full face; the full moon.
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It came to pass, at the end of two full years, that
Pharaoh
dreamed. --Gen. xii. 1.
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The man commands
Like a full soldier. --Shak.
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I can not
Request a fuller satisfaction
Than you have freely granted. --Ford.
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4. Sated; surfeited.
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I am full of the burnt offerings of rams. --Is. i.
11.
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5. Having the mind filled with ideas; stocked with knowledge;
stored with information.
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Reading maketh a full man. --Bacon.
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6. Having the attention, thoughts, etc., absorbed in any
matter, and the feelings more or less excited by it, as,
to be full of some project.
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Every one is full of the miracles done by cold baths
on decayed and weak constitutions. --Locke.
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7. Filled with emotions.
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The heart is so full that a drop overfills it.
--Lowell.
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8. Impregnated; made pregnant. [Obs.]
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Ilia, the fair, . . . full of Mars. --Dryden.
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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 the
sails full, and lying as near the wind as poesible.
Full band (Mus.), a band in which all the instruments are
employed.
Full binding, the binding of a book when made wholly of
leather, as distinguished from half binding.
Full bottom, a kind of wig full and large at the bottom.
Full brother or Full sister, a brother or sister having
the same parents as another.
Full cry (Hunting), eager chase; -- said of hounds that
have caught the scent, and give tongue together.
Full dress, the dress prescribed by authority or by
etiquette to be worn on occasions of ceremony.
Full hand (Poker), three of a kind and a pair.
Full moon.
(a) The moon with its whole disk illuminated, as when
opposite to the sun.
(b) The time when the moon is full.
Full organ (Mus.), the organ when all or most stops are
out.
Full score (Mus.), a score in which all the parts for
voices and instruments are given.
Full sea, high water.
Full swing, free course; unrestrained liberty; "Leaving
corrupt nature to . . . the full swing and freedom of its
own extravagant actings." South (Colloq.)
In full, at length; uncontracted; unabridged; written out
in words, and not indicated by figures.
In full blast. See under Blast.
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Full bottom (gcide) | Bottom \Bot"tom\ (b[o^]t"t[u^]m), n. [OE. botum, botme, AS.
botm; akin to OS. bodom, D. bodem, OHG. podam, G. boden,
Icel. botn, Sw. botten, Dan. bund (for budn), L. fundus (for
fudnus), Gr. pyqmh`n (for fyqmh`n), Skr. budhna (for
bhudhna), and Ir. bonn sole of the foot, W. bon stem, base.
[root]257. Cf. 4th Found, Fund, n.]
1. The lowest part of anything; the foot; as, the bottom of a
tree or well; the bottom of a hill, a lane, or a page.
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Or dive into the bottom of the deep. --Shak.
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2. The part of anything which is beneath the contents and
supports them, as the part of a chair on which a person
sits, the circular base or lower head of a cask or tub, or
the plank floor of a ship's hold; the under surface.
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Barrels with the bottom knocked out. --Macaulay.
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No two chairs were alike; such high backs and low
backs and leather bottoms and worsted bottoms. --W.
Irving.
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3. That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal
or a figurative sense; foundation; groundwork.
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4. The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, sea.
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5. The fundament; the buttocks.
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6. An abyss. [Obs.] --Dryden.
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7. Low land formed by alluvial deposits along a river;
low-lying ground; a dale; a valley. "The bottoms and the
high grounds." --Stoddard.
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8. (Naut.) The part of a ship which is ordinarily under
water; hence, the vessel itself; a ship.
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My ventures are not in one bottom trusted. --Shak.
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Not to sell the teas, but to return them to London
in the
same bottoms in which they were shipped. --Bancroft.
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Full bottom, a hull of such shape as permits carrying a
large amount of merchandise.
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9. Power of endurance; as, a horse of a good bottom.
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10. Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment. --Johnson.
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At bottom, At the bottom, at the foundation or basis; in
reality. "He was at the bottom a good man." --J. F.
Cooper.
To be at the bottom of, to be the cause or originator of;
to be the source of. [Usually in an opprobrious sense.]
--J. H. Newman.
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He was at the bottom of many excellent counsels.
--Addison.
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To go to the bottom, to sink; esp. to be wrecked.
To touch bottom, to reach the lowest point; to find
something on which to rest.
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