ful"some*ness

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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Fulsome \Ful"some\, 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]

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