Very often the errors implied by such names are flagrant; sometimes the allusions are ridiculous, grotesque, or merely imbecile.

So long as they have a decent sound, how infinitely preferable are locutions in which etymology finds nothing to dissect! Of such would be the word _fullo_, were it not that it already has a meaning which immediately occurs to the mind.

This Latin expression means a _fuller_; a person who kneads and presses cloth under a stream of water, making it flexible and ridding it of the asperities of weaving.

What connection has the subject of this chapter with the fuller of cloth?
I may puzzle my head in vain: no acceptable reply will occur to me.
The term _fullo_ as applied to an insect is found in Pliny.

In one chapter the great naturalist treats of remedies against jaundice, fevers, and dropsy.