Obs. [f. WOMB sb. + -FUL.] As much as will fill the womb or the stomach.

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1387.  Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), III. 437. Sche leved þere thrittene dayes in flescheliche likyng, and hadde her wombeful, and went hir wey [L. impleto utero abscessit].

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1637.  Rutherford, Lett., to Parishioners, 13 July (1664), 7. The earth worme, who can never get his wombfull of clay. Ibid. (1637), Lett. to A. Gordon, 234. I would break the door and be in upon him, to get a wombfull of love; for I am an hungered … soul.

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