Middle English Dictionary Entry
font-ful n.
Entry Info
| Forms | font-ful n. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A quantity sufficient to fill a baptismal font.
Associated quotations
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.ML.(Manly-Rickert)B.357 : Thogh his wyf be cristned neuer so white, She shal haue nede to wasshe awey the rede, Thogh she a font ful [vr. a fontful of] water with hir lede.