fat1 (fat)

and n. [ G. fett ) = MHG. veiz = Icel. feitr = Sw.fet= fat Dan. fed (with long vowel), fat. For the AS. contr. fætt, zif the i (the children] ben fatte , the i eten hem anon. Mandeville, Travels, p. 179. Next was November; he full gro e and fat As fed with lard. Spenser, F. Q., VII. vii. 40. Sher. One of them is well known, my gracious lord, A gro fat man. IMG:content-1122.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Containing the substance called fat (see II.); containing or consisting of fat, oil, or grease; oily; greasy; unctuous: as, a fat dish; fat cheese. And for his beef, says he, "look how fat it is, the lean appears only here and there a speck, like beauty-spots. Pepys , Diary, III. 1. With citron groves adorn a distant soil, And the fat olive swell with floods of oil. Add is on, Letter from Italy. Hence-3. Containing much resin; resinous: as, fat pine. [C. S.] -4. Containing much plastic or unctuous matter; pinguid: said of clay which is free from intermingled sand, and consequently highly plastic; or of lime made from limestone which contains but a small amount (ten per cent. or le ) of the ordinary impurities of limestone-silica, alumina, oxid of iron, etc. What are called fat clays - those, that is to say, which are very plastic and unctuous shrink very much, losing from one-third to one-fourth of their bulk; they are also very liable to crack or twist during the firing. Encyc. Brit ., XIX. 600. 5. Having or showing, in mind or movement, the qualities of a fat animal; heavy; dull; stupid. Duller shouldst thou be than the fat weed That rots itself in ease on Lethe wharf, Wouldst thou not stir in this. Shak ., Hamlet, i. 5. There is little or no sense in the fat parts of any creature: hence the ancients said of any dull fellow that he had a fat wit. Holy David Clear'd (1706), p. 257. 6. Well supplied with what is needful or desired; abounding in comforts; prosperous. They [the righteous) shall be fat and flourishing. Ps. xcii. 14. These were terrible alarms to persons grown fat and wealthy by a long and succe ful imposture. South , Sermons. 7. Abundant in production, or yielding large profits; rich in results or yield; profitable. The bulbes of cal cases settyng sone In landes moiste and fatte is goode this moone. Palladius , Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 85. After I was entered into Lombardy I observed.. infinite abundance of fat meadows. Coryat , Crudities, I. 111. Litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees. Milton. His whole divinity is moulded and bred up in the beggarly and brutish hopes of a fat Prebendary, Deanery, or Bishop rick. Milton , On Def. of Humb. Remonst. jobs. The American, VI. 38. And fixes their regard on Congre as the creator of fat 8. Naut., broad, as the quarter of a ship.-Fat amber. See amber2. - Fat work, fat take, in type - set ting, work, or a piece of work, especially profitable to the compositor from having much open space (filled up with quadrats or leads), abounding with woodcuts, or in any other way admitting of rapid execution. The extra profit arises from the fact that the scale of prices for piece-work makes no discrimination in this respect. - To beat or ink fatt, in printing, to overcolor (a form of types) with an exce of ink. To cut it too fat. See cut. II. n. [= D. vet , G. fett , Sw. fett = Dan. fedt, fat, n.; from the adj.] 1. A white or yellowish oily solid substance forming the chief part of the adipose ti ue of animals, and also found in plants. In chemistry the fats are odorle , tastele , colorle or white bodies, which may be either solid or liquid. They are insoluble in water and cold alcohol, but di olve freely in ether, chloroform, and benzine. The solid neutral fats, like spermaceti, suet, and lard, and the liquid non-volatile oils, like sperm and olive-oil, are cla ed together as fats. They are compound ethers formed by the union of fatty acids with the triatomic alcohol glycerin. They are composed of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, but contain no nitrogen. The most common and abundant are stearin, palmitin, and olein. Of these stearin and palmitin are solids at ordinary temperatures, and olein is a liquid. Most animal and vegetable fats are mixtures of two or more of the simple fats, and their hardne depends largely on the relative quantity of olein or other liquid fat in them. When a fat is treated with an alkali, the fatty acid unites with the alkaline base, making a soap, and glycerin is set free. When a soap is treated with an acid, the base is taken from the fatty acid which is thus set free. The Indian Fair Is nicely smear'd with Fat of Bear. Prior, Alma, ii. 2152 Every face, however full, Padded round with flesh and fat , Is but modell'd on a skull. Tennyson, Vision of Sin. 2. The best or richest part of a thing. We see their plenty depended not so much upon the fat of the land, as upon the dew and ble ing of heaven. Stilling fleet, Sermons, I. viii. If now they conquer, The fat of all the kingdom lies before 'em. Fletcher, Bonduc a, i. 2. IMG:content-1123.png:[blocks in formation] Ger. Here's a woman wanting. Count. We may go whistle; all the fat's i the fire . Fletcher (and another ), Two Noble Kinsmen, iii. 5. One would have thought that, the examination failing and no vote pa ed tending that way, all this jat had been in the fire. Roger North , Examen, p. 623. fat1 (fat), v.; pret. and pp. fatted, ppr. fatting. [ And thrushes fede upon that other syde; To faat hem is avayling and plesaunte. Palladius , Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 21. When Rome sent the Flowr Of Italy, into the wealthy Clime Which Euphrates fats with his fruit full slime. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 2. Ere this, I should have fatted all the region kites With this slave's offal. Shak ., Hamlet, ii. 2. He... fats his fortune shortly In a great dowry with a goldsmith's daughter. Middle ton , Chaste Maid, ii. 1. II. in trans. To become fat; grow fat. fat2 (fat), n. [ fat , fet , also (southern ME.) vat , ret (whence the usual E. form vat ), fatality The fatal facility of Italian rhyme which has created the improvisatore here breaks forth. N. and Q., 6th ser., XI. 77. There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is grovelling and sensual. Lowell, Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 363. 5t. Doomed; cursed. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cro 'd lovers take their life. Shak., R. and J., Prol.