To make full; put or pour something into till no more can be contained; cause to be occupied so that no space, or no available space, is left vacant: as, to fill a basket with fruit; to fill a bottle or a vessel; to fill a church; to fill a cavity in the ground or in a tooth.To occupy the whole capacity or extent of; occupy so as to leave no space, or no appropriate space, vacant; permeate; pervade: as, the water fills the vessel; the company filled the house; air fills the space all around us.To satisfy or content with fullness; glut; satiate.Nautical: To distend, as a sail, to its full extent by pressure, as of the wind.To brace, as the yards, so that the wind will bear upon the sails and distend them.To supply with an incumbent: as, to fill an office or a vacancy.To possess and perform the duties of; officiate in as an incumbent; hold or occupy: as, he fills his office acceptably; to fill the speaker's chair.To pour into something.To stop up the cracks, crevices, or pores of, or hollows in; cover with a substance, as varnish, paste, or sizing, which will smooth or even the surface of, as leather, wood, canvas, or the like; specifically, to apply a varnish or paste to (wood), in order to fill the grain. See filler, 3.In trade, to make up the bulk, or produce a desired appearance of, by using sham or inferior materials; adulterate; doctor; water.To insert so as to complete a list, an account, etc.: as, he filled in the omitted items.To pour out.To make complete or finished.To pour a liquid into a cup or glass until it is full; hence, to give or take to drink.To grow or become full: as, corn fills well in a warm season; a mill-pond fills during the night.n. A full supply; enough to satisfy want or desire; as much as gives complete satisfaction.n. An amount of something sufficient for filling; a charge.n. A shaft; a thill.An obsolete variant of fell.An obsolete preterit of fall.n. A dialectal variant of field.n. Thyme.In poker, to draw cards which improve the hand: usually restricted to filling four-card flushes or straights.To execute: as. to fill an order for goods.To make up: as, to fill a prescription.n. In engineering: An embankment of earth or rock made as a road-bed: the opposite of cut.n. The vertical height of the top of an embankment above the natural surface at any point.n. Deposition alternating with or in contrast to scouring out. The contrasting terms are scour and fill, cut and fill.