Obs. exc. dial. Also Sc. FOUTH. [f. FULL a. + -TH; cf. length, depth.] Fullness. Also = FILL sb.1, in to eat one’s fulth.
c. 1325. English Metrical Homilies, 7. Ar the fulthe of tim was comen.
c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, Paulus, 863. Quhare hele beis ay but seknes … fulth but hungir.
a. 1400–50. Alexander, 2171. Þare his forrayouris fand þe fulth of vitaill.
c. 1425. Wyntoun, Cron., I. xiii. 12. Fra fwlth of mete.
1641. H. Best, Rural Economy in Yorkshire in 1641 (Surtees), 4. A lambe will fall to the grownde, or to eatinge of grasse, when it is aboute a moneth or five weekes olde; yett if it have its fulth of milke, it will forbeare the longer.
1855. Robinson, Whitby Gloss., s.v. ‘Take and eat your fulth on ’t,’ eat till you are satisfied.
1881. Leicestersh. Gloss., Fulth, fulness; full growth; perfection, as applied to flowers, &c.
