a. [f. as prec. + -ED2.]

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  1.  Of a wig: Having a full or large bottom.

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1711.  Budgell, Spect., No. 150, ¶ 7. My Banker ever bows lowest to me when I wear my full-bottom’d Wig.

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1797.  The College, 15. A huge full-bottom’d wig, and college gown.

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1878.  N. Amer. Rev., CXXVI. 52. Their hero … wore a Greek helmet over a full-bottomed wig.

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  2.  Naut. (See quot.)

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1867.  Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk., Full-bottomed, an epithet to signify such vessels as are designed to carry large cargoes.

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