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Fuller
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Ful·ler  (flr), Melville Weston 1833-1910.
American jurist who served as the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1888-1910) and maintained that governmental powers must derive from a strict interpretation of the Constitution.

Fuller, R(ichard) Buckminster 1895-1983.
American architect and inventor who sought to solve practical problems with simple designs that require a minimum of materials and energy. The geodesic dome is his best-known invention.

Fuller, (Sarah) Margaret 1810-1850.
American writer and critic who edited the transcendentalist periodical Dial (1840-1842), was a pioneering literary critic for the New York Tribune (1844-1846), and wrote Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845), a major feminist tract.

full·er 1  (flr)
n.
One that fulls cloth.

full·er 2  (flr)
n.
1. A hammer used by a blacksmith for grooving or spreading iron.
2. A groove made by such a hammer.

[Possibly from full, to pleat.]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.Fuller - United States jurist and chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1833-1910)
2.FullerFuller - United States architect who invented the geodesic dome (1895-1983)
3.fuller - a workman who fulls (cleans and thickens) freshly woven cloth for a living
working man, working person, workingman, workman - an employee who performs manual or industrial labor


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