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ˌfuller's ˈearth
A hydrous silicate of alumina, used in cleansing cloth; also Geol. a group of strata characterized by the presence of this earth.
1523Fitzherb. Surv. 31 Mynes of tynne, leed, ore, cole..lymestonne, chalke, furlers [sic 1526; ed. 1534fullers] erthe, Sande, cley. 1601Holland Pliny xxxv. xvii. II. 560 This Fullers earth Cimolia, is of a cooling nature. 1667E. Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. i. (1684) 7 Fullers Earth is no where else produced in that abundance and excellency as in England. 1738Chesterfield Comm. Sense 11 Nov. (1739) II. 238 Fuller's-Earth, the Exportation of which is strictly prohibited by our Laws. 1836Hor. Smith Tin Trump. I. 9 Like fuller's earth, defiling for the moment but purifying in the end. 1854F. C. Bakewell Geol. 50 The bed of clay called fuller's earth..may be considered merely local. 1878Huxley Physiogr. 36 This Fuller's earth forms a thick bed of clay which retains the water that reaches it.
fig.1670Eachard Cont. Clergy 56 The blots of sin will be easily taken out by the soap of sorrow, and the fullers-earth of contrition. 1727Gay Beggar's Opera i. ix, Money, Wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for Reputations, there is not a Spot or a Stain but what it can take out.
attrib.1816W. Smith Strata Ident. 31 The Fuller's Earth Rock..in many places is imperfectly lapidified. |