FULLER

A cleanser of cloth. His process is unknown. Christ’s robes at the transfiguration were white "so as no fuller on earth can white them," Mr 9:3. We read also of fullers’ soap, Mal 3:2, and of the fullers’ fountain. See EN-ROGEL.

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Fuller. Fuller
The word “full” is from the Anglo-Saxon fullian, meaning “to whiten.” To full is to press or scour cloth in a mill. This art is one of great antiquity. Mention is made of “fuller’s soap” (Mal. 3:2), and of “the fuller’s field” (2 Kings 18:17). At his transfiguration our Lord’s rainment is said to have been white “so as no fuller on earth could white them” (Mark 9:3). En-rogel (q.v.), meaning literally “foot-fountain,” has been interpreted as the “fuller’s fountain,” because there the fullers trod the cloth with their feet.

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FULLER. → General scriptures concerning Mal 3:2; Mr 9:3

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fuller. Fuller, n. one who fulls cloth

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Full″er (?), n. [[AS. fullere, fr. L. fullo. See Full, v. t.]] One whose occupation is to full cloth. Fuller's earth, a variety of clay, used in scouring and cleansing cloth, to imbibe grease. — Fuller's herb (Bot.), the soapwort (Saponaria officinalis), formerly used to remove stains from cloth. — Fuller's thistle or weed (Bot.), the teasel (Dipsacus fullonum) whose burs are used by fullers in dressing cloth. See Teasel.