2. (Mech.) That by which a lever is sustained, or about which it turns
in lifting or moving a body.
3. (Bot.) An accessory organ such as a tendril, stipule, spine, and the
like. [R.] Gray.
4. (Zoˆl.) (a) The horny inferior surface of the lingua of certain
insects. (b) One of the small, spiniform scales found on the front edge
of the dorsal and caudal fins of many ganoid fishes.
5. (Anat.) The connective tissue supporting the framework of the retina
of the eye.
Ful*fill" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fulfilled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Fulfilling.] [OE. fulfillen, fulfullen, AS. fulfyllan; ful full +
fyllan to fill. See Full, a., and Fill, v. t.] [Written also fulfil.]
1. To fill up; to make full or complete. [>Obs.] "Fulfill her week"
Gen. xxix. 27.
Suffer thou that the children be fulfilled first, for it is not
good to take the bread of children and give to hounds.
Wyclif (Mark vii. 27).
2. To accomplish or carry into effect, as an intention, promise, or
prophecy, a desire, prayer, or requirement, etc.; to complete by
performance; to answer the requisitions of; to bring to pass, as a
purpose or design; to effectuate.
He will, fulfill the desire of them fear him.
Ps. cxlv. 199.
Here Nature seems fulfilled in all her ends.
Milton.
Servants must their masters' minds fulfill.
Shak.
Ful*fill"er (?), n. One who fulfills. South.