fathen

Bot.: A name applied to various plants, but especially to certain Chenopod i a cere, having thick, succulent foliage: (1) Che no podium album , (2) Che no podium bonus henricus , (3) Che no podium rubrum, (4) Che no podium vulvar i a , (5) A triplex patula , (6) A triplex erect a, (7) A triplex hastata , (8) Polygonum fagopyrum , (9) Nepeta glechoma, (10) Chrysanthemum segetum, (11) Cap sell a bursa pastor is , (12) Artemisia vulgar is . ( Britten & Hol land .) IMG:content-1463.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Figuratively : *(1) Dull, heavy, stupid; as, a fat or coarse ani- [ADIPOSE TISSUE.] They are often situated in the IMG:content-1464.png:[blocks in formation] *(2) Coarse, gro . "Added fat pollutions of our own." Dryden: Mrs. Kill i grew, 64. (3) Wealthy, rich, affluent. "Mark the fat cit, whose good round sum Amounts at least to half a plum." Lloyd: A Familiar Epistle . (4) Rich; producing a large income. "A fat benefice is that which so abounds with an estate and revenues that a man may expend a great deal in delicacies of eating and drinking." - Auliffe : Parergon. (5) Fertile, fruitful, rich; affording a good return; as, a fat soil. "A fat londe and ful of donge foulest wedes groweth." P. Plowman, p. 213. *(6) Abounding in spiritual endowments and comfort. "They [the righteous] shall be fat and flourishing." Psalm cxii. 14. II. Technically : 1. Naut .: Broad; as, the quarter of a ship. 2. Print .: Applied to a page having many blank spaces or lines, and, hence, to any work which pays well. B. As substantive: I. Ordinary Language: 1. Literally: (1) Plumpne , fleshine . (2) In the same sense as II. 1. 2. The best or most choice part of anything. "Ye shall eat the fat of the land."- Genesis xlv. 18. II. Technically: 1. Anat .: An animal substance of a more or le oily character deposited in vesicles in adipose ti ue. It forms a considerable layer under the skin, is collected in large quantity around certain organs, as, for instance, the kidneys, fills up furrows on the surface of the heart, surrounds joints, and exists in large quantity in the marrow of bones. It is an excellent packing material in the body, being light, soft and elastic. It gives to the surface of the bad conductor of heat, it enables a person to retain the warmth which he has generated; but its chief use is for the purpose of nutrition. ( Quain .) 2. Firmly, steadfastly, faithfully. "The Duke of Gloucester was sure and fastlye faith full human frame its smooth, rounded contour. Being a to hys prince."-Sir T. More: Works, p. 43. 3. Firmly, earnestly, strongly. "That he so fastelye before hath affirmed."- Sir T. More: Works, p. 556. "She 4. Quickly, rapidly, hastily. walked fastly to and fro."-Sir J. Har the triatomic alcohol glycerine. They are insolu- rington: Account of Elizabeth . fate, fat, färe, amidst, what, fall, Interstices between organs, to which they afford protection. They also facilitate motion and improve the symmetry of the figure. ( Todd & Bow man: Phys . Anat .) *fat (2), *fatt, *fatte, *fet, s. [A. S. fæt .] [VAT.] 1. A vat; a large tub or ve el; a cask, a barrel. 2. A measure of capacity, differing in different commodities. A fat of grain was a quarter, or 8 bushels; a fat of wire, from 20 to 25 cwts.; a fat of isingla from 31 to 4 cwts. făt, v. t. & i. [FAT, a.] A. Trans.: To make fat or plump; to fatten. "I should have fatted all the region kites With this slave's offal."- Shakesp .: Hamlet , ii. 2. B. In trans.: To become fat; to fatten; to gain flesh. "An old ox fats as well and is as good as a young."Mortimer: Husbandry.