Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter F - Page 70
Fulcrate (a.) Furnished with fulcrums.
Fulcra (n. pl. ) of Fulcrum.
Fulcrums (n. pl. ) of Fulcrum.
Fulcrum (n.) A prop or support.
Fulcrum (n.) (Mech.) That by which a lever is sustained, or about which it turns in lifting or moving a body.
Fulcrum (n.) (Bot.) An accessory organ such as a tendril, stipule, spine, and the like. [R.] -- Gray.
Fulcrum (n.) (Zool.) The horny inferior surface of the lingua of certain insects.
Fulcrum (n.) (Zool.) One of the small, spiniform scales found on the front edge of the dorsal and caudal fins of many ganoid fishes.
Fulcrum (n.) (Anat.) The connective tissue supporting the framework of the retina of the eye.
Fulcrum (n.) The pivot about which a lever turns.
Fulfilled (imp. & p. p.) of Fulfill.
Fulfilling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fulfill.
Fulfill (v. t.) 執行（命令等）；服從；履行（諾言等）；完成（任務等）；實現 To fill up; to make full or complete. [Obs.] "Fulfill her week" -- Gen. xxix. 27.
Suffer thou that the children be fulfilled first, for it is not good to take the bread of children and give to hounds. -- Wyclif (Mark vii. 27).
Fulfill (v. t.) To accomplish or carry into effect, as an intention, promise, or prophecy, a desire, prayer, or requirement, etc.; to complete by performance; to answer the requisitions of; to bring to pass, as a purpose or design; to effectuate.
He will, fulfill the desire of them fear him. -- Ps. cxlv. 199.
Here Nature seems fulfilled in all her ends. -- Milton.
Servants must their masters' minds fulfill. -- Shak.
Fulfill (v.) Put in effect; "carry out a task"; "execute the decision of the people"; "He actioned the operation" [syn: carry through, accomplish, execute, carry out, action, fulfill, fulfil].
Fulfill (v.) Meet the requirements or expectations of [syn: satisfy, fulfill, fulfil, live up to] [ant: fall short of].
Fulfill (v.) Fill or meet a want or need [syn: meet, satisfy, fill, fulfill, fulfil].
Fulfiller (n.) One who fulfills. -- South.
Fulfillment (n.) 完成，履行；實現 [（+of）]； 滿足（感），成就（感） The act of fulfilling; accomplishment; completion; as, the fulfillment of prophecy.
Fulfillment (n.) Execution; performance; as, the fulfillment of a promise.
Fulfillment (n.) A feeling of satisfaction at having achieved your desires [syn: fulfillment, fulfilment].
Fulfillment (n.) The act of consummating something (a desire or promise etc) [syn: fulfillment, fulfilment].
Fulgency (n.) Brightness; splendor; glitter; effulgence. -- Bailey.
Fulgent (a.) Exquisitely bright; shining; dazzling; effulgent.
Other Thracians . . . fulgent morions wore. -- Glower.
Fulgent (a.) Shining intensely; "the blazing sun"; "blinding headlights"; "dazzling snow"; "fulgent patterns of sunlight"; "the glaring sun" [syn: blazing, blinding, dazzling, fulgent, glaring, glary].
Fulgently (adv.) Dazzlingly; glitteringly.
Fulgid (a.) Shining; glittering; dazzling. [R.] -- Pope.
Fulgid (a.) Having brief brilliant points or flashes of light; "bugle beads all aglitter"; "glinting eyes"; "glinting water"; "his glittering eyes were cold and malevolent"; "shop window full of glittering Christmas trees"; "glittery costume jewelry"; "scintillant mica"; "the scintillating stars"; "a dress with sparkly sequins"; "`glistering' is an archaic term" [syn: aglitter(p), coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly].
Fulgidity (n.) Splendor; resplendence; effulgence. [R.] -- Bailey.
Fulgor (n.) Dazzling brightness; splendor. [R.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Fulgurant (a.) Lightening. [R.] -- Dr. H. More.
Fulgurant (a.) Amazingly impressive; suggestive of the flashing of lightning; "the skater's dazzling virtuosic leaps"; "these great best canvases still look as astonishing and as invitingly new as they did...when...his fulgurant popularity was in full growth" -- Janet Flanner; "adventures related...in a style both vivid and fulgurous"- Idwal Jones [syn: dazzling, eye-popping, fulgurant, fulgurous].
Fulgurata (n.) [NL.] (Electricity) A spectro-electric tube in which the decomposition of a liquid by the passage of an electric spark is observed. -- Knight.
Fulgurate (v. i.) To flash as lightning. [R.]
Fulgurating (a.) (Med.) Resembling lightning; -- used to describe intense lancinating pains accompanying locomotor ataxy.
Fulgurating (a.) Sharp and piercing.
Fulguration (n.) The act of lightening. [R.] -- Donne.
Fulguration (n.) (Assaying) The sudden brightening of a fused globule of gold or silver, when the last film of the oxide of lead or copper leaves its surface; -- also called blick.
A phenomenon called, by the old chemists, fulguration. -- Ure.
Fulgurite (n.) A vitrified sand tube produced by the striking of lightning on sand; a lightning tube; also, the portion of rock surface fused by a lightning discharge.
Fulgury (n.) Lightning. [Obs.]
Fulham (n.) A false die. [Cant] [Written also fullam.] -- Shak.
Fuliginosity (n.) The condition or quality of being fuliginous; sootiness; matter deposited by smoke. [R.]
Fuliginous (a.) Pertaining to soot; sooty; dark; dusky.
Fuliginous (a.) Pertaining to smoke; resembling smoke.
Fuliginously (adv.) In a smoky manner.
Compare: Foumart
Foumart (n.) (Zool.) The European polecat; -- called also European ferret, and fitchew. See Polecat. [Written also foulmart, foulimart, and fulimart.]
Fulimart (n.) Same as Foumart.
Full (a.) 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.
Had the throne been full, their meeting would not have been regular. -- Blackstone.
Full (a.) 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.
Full (a.) 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.
It came to pass, at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed. -- Gen. xii. 1.
The man commands Like a full soldier. -- Shak.
I can not Request a fuller satisfaction Than you have freely granted. -- Ford.
Full (a.) Sated; surfeited.
I am full of the burnt offerings of rams. -- Is. i. 11.
Full (a.) Having the mind filled with ideas; stocked with knowledge; stored with information.
Reading maketh a full man. -- Bacon.
Full (a.) 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.
Every one is full of the miracles done by cold baths on decayed and weak constitutions. -- Locke.
Full (a.) Filled with emotions.
The heart is so full that a drop overfills it. -- Lowell.
Full (a.) 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 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.
Full moon. (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.
Full (n.) Complete measure; utmost extent; the highest state or degree.
The swan's-down feather, That stands upon the swell at full of tide. -- Shak.
Full of the moon, The time of full moon.
Full (adv.) Quite; to the same degree; without abatement or diminution; with the whole force or effect; thoroughly; completely; exactly; entirely.
The pawn I proffer shall be full as good. -- Dryden.
The diapason closing full in man. -- Dryden.
Full in the center of the sacred wood. -- Addison.
Note: Full is placed before adjectives and adverbs to heighten or strengthen their signification. "Full sad." --Milton. "Master of a full poor cell." -- Shak. "Full many a gem of purest ray serene." -- T. Gray. Full is also prefixed to participles to express utmost extent or degree; as, full-bloomed, full-blown, full-crammed full-grown, full-laden, full-stuffed, etc. Such compounds, for the most part, are self-defining.
Full (v. i.) To become full or wholly illuminated; as, the moon fulls at midnight.
Fulled (imp. & p. p.) of Full.
Fulling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Full.
Full (v. t.) To thicken by moistening, heating, and pressing, as cloth; to mill; to make compact; to scour, cleanse, and thicken in a mill.
Full (v. i.) To become fulled or thickened; as, this material fulls well.
Full (adv.) To the greatest degree or extent; completely or entirely; (`full' in this sense is used as a combining form); "fully grown"; "he didn't fully understand"; "knew full well"; "full-grown"; "full-fledged" [syn: fully, to the full, full].
Full (a.) Containing as much or as many as is possible or normal; "a full glass"; "a sky full of stars"; "a full life"; "the auditorium was full to overflowing" [ant: empty].
Full (a.) Constituting the full quantity or extent; complete; "an entire town devastated by an earthquake"; "gave full attention"; "a total failure" [syn: entire, full, total].
Full (a.) Complete in extent or degree and in every particular; "a full game"; "a total eclipse"; "a total disaster" [syn: full, total].
Full (a.) Filled to satisfaction with food or drink; "a full stomach" [syn: full, replete(p)].
Full (a.) (Of sound) Having marked deepness and body; "full tones"; "a full voice" [ant: thin].
Full (a.) Having the normally expected amount; "gives full measure"; "gives good measure"; "a good mile from here" [syn: full, good].
Full (a.) Being at a peak or culminating point; "broad daylight"; "full summer" [syn: broad(a), full(a)].
Full (a.) Having ample fabric; "the current taste for wide trousers"; "a full skirt" [syn: wide, wide-cut, full].
Full (n.) The time when the Moon is fully illuminated; "the moon is at the full" [syn: full moon, full-of-the-moon, full phase of the moon, full].
Full (v.) Beat for the purpose of cleaning and thickening; "full the cloth".
Full (v.) Make (a garment) fuller by pleating or gathering.
Full (v.) Increase in phase; "the moon is waxing" [syn: wax, full] [ant: wane].
Fullage (n.) The money or price paid for fulling or cleansing cloth. -- Johnson.
Fullam (n.) A false die. See Fulham.
Full-blooded (a.) Having a full supply of blood.
Full-blooded (a.) Of pure blood; thoroughbred; as, a full-blooded horse.
Full-blooded (a.) Of unmixed ancestry; "full-blooded Native American"; "blooded Jersies" [syn: full-blooded, full-blood, blooded].
Full-blooded (a.) Endowed with or exhibiting great bodily or mental health; "a hearty glow of health" [syn: hearty, full-blooded, lusty, red-blooded].
Full-bloomed (a.) Like a perfect blossom. "Full-bloomed lips." -- Crashaw.
Full-blown (a.) Fully expanded, as a blossom; as, a full-bloun rose. -- Denham.
Full-blown (a.) Fully distended with wind, as a sail. -- Dryden.
Full-blown (a.) Hence: Of full intensity; as, the recession developed into full-blown depression; a full-blown international crisis.
Full-blown (a.) Fully ripe; at the height of bloom; "a full-blown rose" [syn: full-blown, matured].
Full-blown (a.) Having or displaying all the characteristics necessary for completeness; "a full-blown financial crisis".
Full-bottomed (a.) Full and large at the bottom, as wigs worn by certain civil officers in Great Britain.
Full-bottomed (a.) (Naut.)
Of great capacity below the water line.
Full-butt (adv.) With direct and violentop position; with sudden collision. [Colloq.] -- L'Estrange.
Full-drive (adv.) With full speed. [Colloq.]
Fuller (v. t.) 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 Fuller's weed (Bot.), The teasel ({Dipsacus fullonum) whose burs are used by fullers in dressing cloth. See Teasel.
Fuller (n.) (Blacksmith's Work) A die; a half-round set hammer, used for forming grooves and spreading iron; -- called also a creaser.
Fuller (v. t.) To form a groove or channel in, by a fuller or set hammer; as, to fuller a bayonet.
Fuller (n.) United States jurist and chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1833-1910) [syn: Fuller, Melville W. Fuller, Melville Weston Fuller].
Fuller (n.) United States architect who invented the geodesic dome (1895-1983) [syn: Fuller, Buckminster Fuller, R. Buckminster Fuller, Richard Buckminster Fuller].
Fuller (n.) A workman who fulls (cleans and thickens) freshly woven cloth for a living.
Fuller, () The word "full" is from the Anglo-Saxon fullian, meaning "to whiten." To full is to press or scour cloth in a mill. This art is one of great antiquity. Mention is made of "fuller's soap" (Mal. 3:2), and of "the fuller's field" (2 Kings 18:17). At his transfiguration our Lord's rainment is said to have been white "so as no fuller on earth could white them" (Mark 9:3). En-rogel (q.v.), meaning literally "foot-fountain," has been interpreted as the "fuller's fountain," because there the fullers trod the cloth with their feet.
Fulleries (n. pl. ) of Fullery.
Fullery (n.) The place or the works where the fulling of cloth is carried on.
Full-formed (a.) Full in form or shape; rounded out with flesh.
The full-formed maids of Afric. -- Thomson.
Full-grown (a.) Having reached the limits of growth; mature ; fully developed; -- used mostly of living organisms; as, A full-grown lion can easily kill an unarmed man.. "Full-grown wings." -- Lowell.
Syn: adult, big, fully grown, grown, grownup.
Full-grown (a.) (Of animals) Fully developed; "an adult animal"; "a grown woman" [syn: adult, big, full-grown, fully grown, grown, grownup].
Full-hearted (a.) Full of courage or confidence. -- Shak.
Full-hot (a.) Very fiery. -- Shak.
Fulling (n.) The process of cleansing, shrinking, and thickening cloth by moisture, heat, and pressure.
Fulling mill, () A mill for fulling cloth as by means of pesties or stampers, which alternately fall into and rise from troughs where the cloth is placed with hot water and fuller's earth, or other cleansing materials.
Full-manned (a.) Completely furnished wiith men, as a ship.
Fullmart (n.) See Foumart. -- B. Jonson.
Fullness (n.) The state of being full, or of abounding; abundance; completeness. [Written also fulness.]
"In thy presence is fullness of joy." -- Ps. xvi. 11.
Fullness (n.) Completeness over a broad scope [syn: comprehensiveness, fullness].
Fullness (n.) The property of a sensation that is rich and pleasing; "the music had a fullness that echoed through the hall"; "the cheap wine had no body, no mellowness"; "he was well aware of the richness of his own appearance" [syn: fullness, mellowness, richness].
Fullness (n.) The condition of being filled to capacity [ant: emptiness].
Fullness (n.) Greatness of volume [syn: fullness, voluminosity, voluminousness].
Fullonical (a.) Pertaining to a fuller of cloth. [Obs.] -- Blount.
Full-orbed (a.) Having the orb or disk complete or fully illuminated; like the full moon.
Full-sailed (a.) Having all its sails set,; hence, without restriction or reservation. -- Massinger.
Full-winged (a.) Having large and strong or complete wings. -- Shak.
Full-winged (a.) Beady for flight; eager. [Archaic] -- Beau. & Fl.
Fully (adv.) In a full manner or degree; completely; entirely; without lack or defect; adequately; satisfactorily; as, to be fully persuaded of the truth of a proposition.
Fulmar (n.) One of several species of sea birds, of the family procellariidae, allied to the albatrosses and petrels. Among the well-known species are the arctic fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) (called also fulmar petrel, malduck, and mollemock), and the giant fulmar (Ossifraga gigantea).
Fulminant (a.) Thundering; fulminating.
Fulminated (imp. & p. p.) of Fulminate.
Fulminating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fulminate.
Fulminate (v. i.) To thunder; hence, to make a loud, sudden noise; to detonate; to explode with a violent report.
Fulminate (v. i.) To issue or send forth decrees or censures with the assumption of supreme authority; to thunder forth menaces.
Fulminate (v. t.) To cause to explode.
Fulminate (v. t.) To utter or send out with denunciations or censures; -- said especially of menaces or censures uttered by ecclesiastical authority.
Fulminate (v. i.) A salt of fulminic acid. See under Fulminic.
Fulminate (v. i.) A fulminating powder.
Fulminate (v.) To complain loudly or angrily : to send forth censures or invectives.
Fulminating (a.) Thundering; exploding in a peculiarly sudden or violent manner.
Fulminating (a.) Hurling denunciations, menaces, or censures.
Fulmination (n.) The act of fulminating or exploding; detonation.
Fulmination (n.) The act of thundering forth threats or censures, as with authority.
Fulmination (n.) That which is fulminated or thundered forth; vehement menace or censure.
Fulminatory (a.) Thundering; striking terror.
Fulmine (v.) To thunder.
Fulmine (v. t.) To shoot; to dart like lightning; to fulminate; to utter with authority or vehemence.
Fulmineous (a.) Of, or concerning thunder.