ppl. a. [f. as prec. + -ED1.]
1. In various senses of the vb.
1580. Baret, Alv., F 494. Filled, satisfied, saturatus.
1769. Falconer, Dict. Marine (1789), Y y iij. The filled cartridges in a ship’s magazine.
1772. Ann. Reg., 9/1. I was met by a Chinese, who offered me a filled tobacco pipe; but, on my refusing to accept of it, he took hold of my coat, and endeavoured with all his might to take my knee-buckles.
1882. Pall Mall G., 12 July, 8/2. Barges laden with filled shell are arriving.
1892. Lockwood, Dict. Mech. Engin., Filled Rail, a point rail, or a stock rail, which has one or both sides filled up flush.
b. Made up by the addition of foreign materials; adulterated. Of cotton fabrics: Faced or sized with certain preparations serving to give the appearance of greater substance.
1887. Pall Mall G., 25 June, 12/1. A word in defence of the much abused ‘filled’ cottons.
1888. Nature, XXXVIII. 26 July, 294/1. The methods of production of ‘filled’ (i.e. adulterated and watered) soaps.
1890. Daily News, 25 April, 5/3. A mysterious product analogous to margarine, known to the trade as ‘filled cheese.’
2. With adverbs: see FILL v. 15–17.
1849. Florist, 264. The variety caused by numerous petals and a filled-up outline.
1865. Cornhill Mag., XI. Feb., 179. I will get up in the morning and take them before and after my filled-up hours.
1866. W. D. Howells, Venet. Life, xvi. 248. The street is a rio terrà,—a filled-up canal.
1880. Daily News, 26 Aug., 2/3. The booking clerk gives him a filled-out memorandum.
