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.
(1608-1661) Divine and antiquary, s. of a clergyman of the same name, was b. at Aldwinkle, Northamp...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
(1810-1850) Was b. in Massachusetts, dau. of a lawyer, who encouraged her in over-working herself i...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin