1. fuller(n = noun.person) melville w. fuller, melville weston fuller - United States jurist and chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1833-1910);
is a kind of chief justice
2. fuller(n = noun.person) buckminster fuller, r. buckminster fuller, richard buckminster fuller - United States architect who invented the geodesic dome (1895-1983);
is a kind of applied scientist, engineer, technologist, architect, designer
3. fuller(n = noun.person) - a workman who fulls (cleans and thickens) freshly woven cloth for a living;
is a kind of working man, working person, workingman, workman
Derived form verb full1
One whose occupation is to full cloth. [1913 Webster]
A die; a half-round set hammer, used for forming grooves and spreading iron; -- called also a
To form a groove or channel in, by a fuller or set hammer; as, to fuller a bayonet. [1913 Webster]
fuller, n. a person who fulls cloth.
Idiom:
fuller's earth a type of clay used in fulling cloth and as an adsorbent.
fuller, n. & v.
--n.
1 a grooved or rounded tool on which iron is shaped.
2 a groove made by this esp. in a horseshoe.
--v.tr. stamp with a fuller.
Etymology:
19th c.: orig. unkn.
buckminster fuller, melville w. fuller, melville weston fuller, r. buckminster fuller, richard buckminster fuller
teasel(n = noun.plant) teasle, teazel - any of several herbs of the genus Dipsacus native to the Old World having flower heads surrounded by spiny bracts;
is a kind of herb, herbaceous plant
is a member of dipsacus, genus dipsacus
has particulars: common teasel, dipsacus fullonum, dipsacus sativus, fuller's teasel, dipsacus sylvestris, wild teasel
1. A plant of the genus
" Small teasel is
2. A bur of this plant. [1913 Webster]
3. Any contrivance intended as a substitute for teasels in dressing cloth. [1913 Webster]
To subject, as woolen cloth, to the action of teasels, or any substitute for them which has an effect to raise a nap. [1913 Webster]
teasel, n. & v. (also teazel, teazle)
--n.
1 any plant of the genus Dipsacus, with large prickly heads that are dried and used to raise the nap on woven cloth.
2 a device used as a substitute for teasels.
--v.tr. dress (cloth) with teasels.
Derivative:
teaseler n.
Etymology:
OE t{aelig}s(e)l, = OHG zeisala (as TEASE)