filled, ppl. a.
(fɪld)
[f. as prec. + -ed1.]
1. a. In various senses of the vb. U.S. (quot. 1843): stuffed.
| 1580 Baret Alv. F 494 Filled, satisfied, saturatus. 1769 Falconer Dict. Marine (1789) Y y iij, The filled cartridges. 1772 Ann. Reg. 9/1 A Chinese..offered me a filled tobacco pipe. 1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase viii. 51 Why should we trespass on patience with the account of..steaks, filled chickens, plum puddings, and the curious dish of what-nots? 1882 Pall Mall G. 12 July 8/2 Barges laden with filled shell are arriving. 1892 Lockwood Mech. Engin. Dict., Filled Rail, a point rail, or a stock rail, which has one or both sides filled up flush. |
b. Made up by the addition of foreign materials; adulterated. Of cotton fabrics: Faced or sized with certain preparations serving to give the appearance of greater substance.
| 1887 Pall Mall G. 25 June 12/1 A word in defence of the much abused ‘filled’ cottons. 1888 Nature 26 July 294/1 The methods of production of ‘filled’ (i.e. adulterated and watered) soaps. 1890 Daily News 25 Apr. 5/3 A mysterious product analogous to margarine, known to the trade as ‘filled cheese’. 1934 Webster, Filled milk. 1959 Observer 8 Feb. 4/6 ‘Filled milk’—that is, milk in which the natural animal fats are replaced by special vegetable fats. |
2. With adverbs: see fill v. 15–17.
| 1849 Florist 264 The variety caused by numerous petals and a filled-up outline. 1865 Cornhill Mag. Feb. 179, I will..take them before and after my filled-up hours. 1866 Howells Venet. Life xvi. 248 A filled-up canal. 1880 Daily News 26 Aug. 2/3 The booking clerk gives him a filled-out memorandum. 1899 T. Eaton & Co. Catal. Spring & Summer 218 Fine English China tea sets..with filled-in colors. 1905 Westm. Gaz. 15 July 12/2 That..filled-in look [of a bodice]. 1951 Auden Nones (1952) 42 Halting at each of the now filled-in shafts. 1968 H. Harmar Chihuahua Guide 237 Filled-up face, one in which the cheek muscles are well developed, such as in the Staffordshire. |