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