The entire length or extension of any object.
1. In advbl. phrase, (at) full length.
1709. Steele & Addison, Tatler, No. 93, ¶ 4. I have … drawn at full Length, the Figures of all sorts of Men.
1844. Dickens, Mart. Chuz., vi. By constructing … a temporary sofa of three chairs … and lying down at full-length upon it.
1855. Singleton, Virgil, I. 47. Of polished marble thou full-length shalt stand.
2. attrib., as full-length figure, portrait, etc. Also ellipt. a full-length.
1850. L. Hunt, Autobiog., II. xiv. 141. A full-length portrait … of a little girl.
1894. A. D. White, in Pop. Set. Monthly, XLIV. 722. A full-length woodcut showing the Almighty in the act of extracting Eve.
1896. Westm. Gaz., 1 May, 1/2. Just above the line, hangs a full-length of the German Emperor.
1897. Daily News, 8 April, 8/1. This is, we understand, the first full-length novel he has written.
fig. 1822–34. Good’s Study Med. (ed. 4), I. 296. What may be called a close and full-length portrait [of a disease].
