a. [ Full, a. + -some. ] 1. Full; abundant; plenteous; not shriveled. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ] His lean, pale, hoar, and withered corpse grew fulsome, fair, and fresh. Golding. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. Offending or disgusting by overfullness, excess, or grossness; cloying; gross; nauseous; esp., offensive from excess of praise; as, fulsome flattery. [ 1913 Webster ] And lest the fulsome artifice should fail
Themselves will hide its coarseness with a veil. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. Lustful; wanton; obscene; also, tending to obscenity. [ Obs. ] “Fulsome ewes.” Shak. -- Ful"some*ly, adv. -- Ful"some*ness, n. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ] | 