1. Not filled; not made full.
1584. Cogan, Haven Health, ccxiv. 201. That it were better to eate fine meates first, and grosser meates afterward, if perchaunce any corner were left vnfilled.
1601. Shaks., Twel. N., II. iii. 7. A false conclusion: I hate it as an vnfill’d Canne.
1646. Crashaw, Sospetto d’Herode, xlii. A cursed Feast, Which Harpyes, with leane Famine feed upon, Unfill’d for ever.
1755. Johnson, Unstuffed, unfilled, unfurnished.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., I. VII. i. Our mouths, unfilled with bread, are to be shut, under penalties?
1893. Spectator, 15 April, 471/1. The Colonies … possess great properties in their unfilled lands.
b. With up.
c. 1640. J. Smyth, Lives Berkeleys (1883), II. 380. Hee … being within less then his length of an old Colepit unfilled up.
1817. J. Scott, Paris Revisit. (ed. 4), 105. That their capacities … did not seem to be improved,—that much of them remained unfilled up.
† 2. Unfulfilled. Obs.
c. 1400. Apol. Loll., 34. So is no man worþi to mak a letter or title of his to go by vnfillid.
1651. Baxter, Inf. Bapt., 296. Those to whom that Promise is yet unfilled.
