full

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• transitive verb To increase the density and usually the thickness of (cloth) by shrinking and beating or pressing.
• adjective Containing all that is normal or possible.
• adjective Complete in every particular.
• adjective Amounting to three balls and two strikes. Used of a count.
• adjective Having a base runner at first, second, and third base.
• adjective Of maximum or highest degree.
• adjective Being at the peak of development or maturity.
• adjective Of or relating to a full moon.
• adjective Having a great deal or many.
• adjective Totally qualified, accepted, or empowered.
• adjective Rounded in shape; plump.
• adjective Having or made with a generous amount of fabric.
• adjective Having an appetite completely satisfied, especially for food or drink.
• adjective Providing an abundance, especially of food.
• adjective Having depth and body; rich.
• adjective Completely absorbed or preoccupied.
• adjective Possessing both parents in common.
• adverb To a complete extent; entirely.
• adverb Exactly; directly.
• intransitive verb To make (a garment) full, as by pleating or gathering.
• intransitive verb To become full. Used of the moon.
• noun The maximum or complete size or amount.
• noun The highest degree or state.

from The Century Dictionary.

• In sewing, to bring (the cloth) on one side of a seam to a little greater fullness than on the other by gathering or tucking very slightly, as is done to produce certain effects of tailoring, etc.
• To draw up; pucker; bunch: as, the skirt fulls too much in front.
• Containing or provided with all that can be contained or received; admitting of or entitled to no more or no other, either as to contents or supply; filled; replete: as, full measure; a full stomach; a full list of names; a regiment marching with full ranks.
• Filled or carried to completion or entirety; not defective, partial, or insufficient; complete according to a standard; whole; entire: as, full compensation; full age (an age complete or sufficient for some purpose); a full ballot; the full stature of a grenadier; a full term of office or course of study.
• Filled or rounded out; complete in volume; ample in extent; copious; comprehensive: as, a full body or voice; a full statement or argument; a full confession.
• Filled by or engrossed with the quantity, number, volume, importance, contemplation, or the like (of): as, a house full of people; life is full of perplexities; she is full of her own conceits; also, abounding in.
• Filled with food; satisfied with food.
• Filled with liquor; drunk.
• Heavy with young, as a ewe, or with spawn, as a fish; full-roed, as fish.
• In poker, consisting of three of a kind and a pair.
• Capacious, broad, large, extensive.
• Satiated, glutted, cloyed.
• In organ-playing, with all the stops drawn; with the whole power of the instrument: as, the piece was played full.
• Fully; completely; without reserve or qualification.
• Quite; to the same degree; equally.
• Exactly; precisely; directly; straight.
• In full measure; to a great degree; abundantly; very.
• To baptize.
• To thicken or make compact in a mill, as cloth. See fulling-mill.
• To become compacted or felted: as, a cloth which fulls well.
• noun Utmost measure or extent; highest state or degree: as, this instrument answers to the full; fed to the full.
• noun That phase in the revolution of the moon when it presents to the earth its whole face illuminated.
• noun In the game of poker, a hand consisting of three cards of the same denomination and a pair, counting between a flush and fours; a full hand. Sometimes called a full house.