“filleth” is a form of
fill
/fɪl/ verb, noun, proper noun
Also a form of thill
- verb To add contents to (a container, cavity, or the like) so that it is full. “She filled a glass with milk.”
- verb To enter (something), making it full. “The doors opened and guests filled the auditorium.”
- verb To occupy fully, to take up all of. “The smell of spring filled the air.”
- verb (of containers, cavities, or the like) “The bucket filled with rain”
- verb To become pervaded with something. “My heart filled with joy.”
- verb (transitive) To satisfy or meet (as, an order, request, or requirement). “The pharmacist filled my prescription for penicillin.”
- verb (transitive) To install someone, or be installed, in (a position or office), eliminating a vacancy. “Sorry, no more applicants. The position has been filled.”
- verb (transitive) To treat (a tooth) by adding a dental filling to it. “Dr. Smith filled Jim's cavity with silver amalgam.”
- noun (after a possessive) A sufficient or more than sufficient amount. “Don't feed him any more: he's had his fill.”
- noun An amount that fills a container. “The mixer returned to the plant for another fill.”
- noun The filling of a container or area. “That machine can do 20 fills per minute.”
- noun Inexpensive material used to occupy empty spaces, especially in construction. “The ruins of earlier buildings were used as fill for more recent construction.”
- noun (archaeology) Soil and/or human-created debris discovered within a cavity or cut in the layers and exposed by excavation; fill soil.
- noun An embankment, as in railroad construction, to fill a hollow or ravine; also, the place which is to be filled.
- noun (music) A short passage, riff, or rhythmic sound that helps to keep the listener's attention during a break between the phrases of a melody. “bass fill”
- noun (weaving) The weft yarn.
- noun One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.
- proper noun A surname transferred from the given name.
Synonyms
stop pervade dick get up in knob swive filling fill up make full occupy take meet satisfy fulfill fulfil satiate sate replete
Antonyms
Etymology
From Middle English fillen, fullen, from Old English fyllan (“to fill, fill up, replenish, satisfy; complete, fulfill”), from Proto-West Germanic *fullijan, from Proto-Germanic *fullijaną (“to make full, fill”), from *fullaz (“full”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós (“full”).
Cognate with Scots fill (“to fill”), West Frisian folje (“to fill”), Low German füllen (“to fill”), Dutch vullen (“to fill”), German füllen (“to fill”), Danish fylde (“to fill”), Swedish fylla (“to fill”), Norwegian fylle (“to fill”), Icelandic fylla (“to fill”) and Latin plenus (“full”)
From Middle English fille, vülle, fülle, from Old English fyllu, from Proto-West Germanic *fullī, from Proto-Germanic *fullį̄ (“fullness”). Cognate with German Fülle.
See thill.
From a medieval diminutive of the given name Philip.
Webster’s 1913
- noun One of the thills or shafts of a carriage. Mortimer. Fill horse, a thill horse. Shak.
- verb To make full; to supply with as much as can be held or contained; to put or pour into, till no more can be received; to occupy the whole capacity of. The rain also filleth the pools. Ps. lxxxiv. 6.
- verb To furnish an abudant supply to; to furnish with as mush as is desired or desirable; to occupy the whole of; to swarm in or overrun.
- verb To become full; to have the whole capacity occupied; to have an abundant supply; to be satiated; as, corn fills well in a warm season; the sail fills with the wind.
Etymology [See Thill.]
Etymology [OE. fillen, fullen, AS. fyllan, fr. full full; akin to D. vullen, G. füllen, Icel. fylla, Sw. fylla, Dan. fylde, Goth. fulljan. See Full, a.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “fill”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details