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Fill
FILL, v.t. [Gr. allied perhaps to fold and felt; to stuff; L. pilus, pileus. We are told that the Gr. to approach, signified originally to thrust or drive, L. pello, and contracted, it is rendered to fill, and is full.]
1. Properly, to press; to crowd; to stuff. Hence, to put or pour in, till the thing will hold no more; as, to fill a basket, a bottle, a vessel.
Fill the water pots with water: and they filled them to the brim. John 2.
2. To store; to supply with abundance.
Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas. Gen 1.
3. To cause to abound; to make universally prevalent.
The earth was filled with violence. Gen 6.
4. To satisfy; to content.
Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude? Mat 15.
5. To glut; to surfeit.
Things that are sweet and fat are more filing.
6. To make plump; as, in a good season the grain is well filled. In the summer of 1816, the driest and coldest which the oldest man remembered, the rye was so well filled, that the grain protruded beyond the husk, and a shock yielded a peck more than in common years.
7. To press and dilate on all sides or to the extremities; as, the sails were filled.
8. To supply with liquor; to pour into; as, to fill a glass for a guest.
9. To supply with an incumbent; as, to fill an office or vacancy.
10. To hold; to possess and perform the duties of; to officiate in, as an incumbent; as, a king fills a throne; the president fills the office of chief magistrate; the speaker of the house fills the chair.
11. In seamanship, to brace the sails so that the wind will bear upon them and dilate them.
To fill out, to extend or enlarge to the desired limit.
1. To fill up, to make full.
It pours the bliss that fills up all the mind.
But in this and many other cases, the use of up weakens the force of the phrase.
2. To occupy; to fill. Seek to fill up life with useful employments.
3. To fill; to occupy the whole extent; as, to fill up a given space.
4. To engage or employ; as, to fill up time.
5. To complete; as, to fill up the measure of sin. Mat 23.
6. To complete; to accomplish.
And fill up what is behind of the afflictions of Christ.
Col 1.
FILL, v.i.
1. To fill a cup or glass for drinking; to give to drink.
In the cup which she hath filled, fill to her double.
Rev 18.
2. To grow or become full. corn fills well in a warm season. A mill pond fills during the night.
3. To glut; to satiate.
To fill up, to grow or become full. The channel of the river fills up with sand, every spring.
FILL, n. Fullness; as much as supplies want; as much as gives complete satisfaction. Eat and drink to the fill. take your fill of joy.
The land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety. Lev 25.
fill appears in definitions for these words:
Abbreuvoir Accloy Aerification Aerify Agalloch Agate Air-bladder Air-jacket Alarm Anaplerotic Annulet Antiacid Apostemate Aposteme Ascitans Asterisk Athanor Awful Awfully Badiane Baftas Ball Balloon Band Bandage Barberry Barque Barricade Bath Bed Behind Belie Belly Bellyful Berattle Berme Bind Binder Bladder Blank Blow Bog Bolbitine Bolster Bomb Bombastry Brick Brim Bumper Button-stone Calambac Calamus Calk Candle-bomb Canonry Carcass Careful Carob Cartouch Charge Choke Choked Clog Cloy Cloyed Cloying Cloyless Clutter Coat Coffer Colt Compel Complement Complemental Complete Completive Compose Compute Confusion Constipate Constipation Contradictious Copper Corbeil Cram Crammed Cranny Crowded Crowding Crowth Cup Cushion Damasken Decanter Defray Depletion Diadem Dissipation Distract Doubt Draw Drench Druse Dusty Earth Earthbag Ecstasy Efflate Elasticity Election Embalm Embalmed Embalming Empty Englut Enthusiastic Eolipile Episcopate Eter Ethereal Expletive Fagot Fain Fantasied Farce Fascia Fasciated Fascine Fatten Felicitate Fether Fether-bed Fill Filler Fillet Fillip Fireball Firepot Fireship Foal Fogginess Foggy Founder Frame Fraught Fret Frontlet Fulcrum Full Full-stuffed Fullness Fulsome Fusee Gabion Gap Geode Glass Gloom Glut Gorge Gospel Graywacke Grenade Grief Hairlace Headband Hexagon Horror Howling Hydatid Hydrogen Implement Impletion Imposture Impregnated Impregnating Incarnation Incompetent Indorse Infarction Infiltration Inflate Injection Inkle Insaturabale Intrenchment Inundate Iron Ivory Jeopardy Junk Label Lapse Largely Levity Light Lighten Lightroom List Listel Lock Look Lumber Lung Margin Marrow Mask Mass Mindfilling Misgive Misgiving Misty Moat Mouth Mummy Muse Nogging Obstruct Occupy Oppilate Oppilation Oppleted Organ Orle Orlet Osteocol Overcharge Overcloy Overfill Overflow Overfreight Overload Overstock Overstore Perfume Pile Pillow Piston Planted Platband Pleonasm Pod Point Pointing Pomegranate Possess Predigestion Preoccupate Print Puff Quadrant Quadrat Quail-pipe Ranging Rare Refrigeratory Repair Replenish Replenished Replenishing Replete Repletion Repletive Represent Reputably Requirement Ring Rocket Roller Romanize Rudenture Sack Salt Sandal-wood Sate Sated Satiate Satiation Saturate Saturation Saucisse Scent Scribble Scrupulous Seam Sentence Set Shackle Shady Shark Sheaf Shriek Smoky Snod Sod Soggy Spare Spin Spite Spiteful Spred Squib Stag Star Station Stead Steel Stock Stomached Stop Stopper Straw-drain Stringing Stuff Stuffed Stuffing Stun Sucking-bottle Supersaturating Supplement Supply Surfeit Surfeiting Swamp Sward Swath Take Tallowed Tape Temper Thicken Thin Thine Threatening Tine Tirade Toad-stone Torricellian Trig Turbulent Turf Turnpike Tyrannicide Unbind Unfilled Ungorged Unliquored Unobstructed Unreplenished Unsatisfied Unseasoned Unstuffed Untaken Unworthy Vacancy Vacant Vacuity Vacuum Vanity Vapor Variegate Vein Vesicle Vessel Vicarious Violence Void Vote Wake Wall-wort Warbling Water-soak Water-soaked Wet Wetness Whitlow Wonder
Abbreuvoir Accloy Aerification Aerify Agalloch Agate Air-bladder Air-jacket Alarm Anaplerotic Annulet Antiacid Apostemate Aposteme Ascitans Asterisk Athanor Awful Awfully Badiane Baftas Ball Balloon Band Bandage Barberry Barque Barricade Bath Bed Behind Belie Belly Bellyful Berattle Berme Bind Binder Bladder Blank Blow Bog Bolbitine Bolster Bomb Bombastry Brick Brim Bumper Button-stone Calambac Calamus Calk Candle-bomb Canonry Carcass Careful Carob Cartouch Charge Choke Choked Clog Cloy Cloyed Cloying Cloyless Clutter Coat Coffer Colt Compel Complement Complemental Complete Completive Compose Compute Confusion Constipate Constipation Contradictious Copper Corbeil Cram Crammed Cranny Crowded Crowding Crowth Cup Cushion Damasken Decanter Defray Depletion Diadem Dissipation Distract Doubt Draw Drench Druse Dusty Earth Earthbag Ecstasy Efflate Elasticity Election Embalm Embalmed Embalming Empty Englut Enthusiastic Eolipile Episcopate Eter Ethereal Expletive Fagot Fain Fantasied Farce Fascia Fasciated Fascine Fatten Felicitate Fether Fether-bed Fill Filler Fillet Fillip Fireball Firepot Fireship Foal Fogginess Foggy Founder Frame Fraught Fret Frontlet Fulcrum Full Full-stuffed Fullness Fulsome Fusee Gabion Gap Geode Glass Gloom Glut Gorge Gospel Graywacke Grenade Grief Hairlace Headband Hexagon Horror Howling Hydatid Hydrogen Implement Impletion Imposture Impregnated Impregnating Incarnation Incompetent Indorse Infarction Infiltration Inflate Injection Inkle Insaturabale Intrenchment Inundate Iron Ivory Jeopardy Junk Label Lapse Largely Levity Light Lighten Lightroom List Listel Lock Look Lumber Lung Margin Marrow Mask Mass Mindfilling Misgive Misgiving Misty Moat Mouth Mummy Muse Nogging Obstruct Occupy Oppilate Oppilation Oppleted Organ Orle Orlet Osteocol Overcharge Overcloy Overfill Overflow Overfreight Overload Overstock Overstore Perfume Pile Pillow Piston Planted Platband Pleonasm Pod Point Pointing Pomegranate Possess Predigestion Preoccupate Print Puff Quadrant Quadrat Quail-pipe Ranging Rare Refrigeratory Repair Replenish Replenished Replenishing Replete Repletion Repletive Represent Reputably Requirement Ring Rocket Roller Romanize Rudenture Sack Salt Sandal-wood Sate Sated Satiate Satiation Saturate Saturation Saucisse Scent Scribble Scrupulous Seam Sentence Set Shackle Shady Shark Sheaf Shriek Smoky Snod Sod Soggy Spare Spin Spite Spiteful Spred Squib Stag Star Station Stead Steel Stock Stomached Stop Stopper Straw-drain Stringing Stuff Stuffed Stuffing Stun Sucking-bottle Supersaturating Supplement Supply Surfeit Surfeiting Swamp Sward Swath Take Tallowed Tape Temper Thicken Thin Thine Threatening Tine Tirade Toad-stone Torricellian Trig Turbulent Turf Turnpike Tyrannicide Unbind Unfilled Ungorged Unliquored Unobstructed Unreplenished Unsatisfied Unseasoned Unstuffed Untaken Unworthy Vacancy Vacant Vacuity Vacuum Vanity Vapor Variegate Vein Vesicle Vessel Vicarious Violence Void Vote Wake Wall-wort Warbling Water-soak Water-soaked Wet Wetness Whitlow Wonder
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