Part 4199

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich; <as>as, to <ex>fatten</ex> land; to <ex>fatten</ex> fields with blood.</as></def>

<i>Dryden.</i>

<h1>Fatten</h1> <Xpage=546>

<hw>Fat"ten</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To grow fat or corpulent; to grow plump, thick, or fleshy; to be pampered.</def>

<blockquote>And villains <b>fatten</b> with the brave man's labor. <i>Otway.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Fattener</h1> <Xpage=546>

<hw>Fat"ten*er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt><def>One who, or that which, fattens; that which gives fatness or fertility.</def>

<h1>Fattiness</h1> <Xpage=546>

<hw>Fat"ti*ness</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt><def>State or quality of being fatty.</def>

<h1>Fattish</h1> <Xpage=546>

<hw>Fat"tish</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Somewhat fat; inclined to fatness.</def>

<blockquote>Coleridge, a puffy, anxious, obstructed-looking, <b>fattish</b> old man. <i>Carlyle.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Fatty</h1> <Xpage=546>

<hw>Fat"ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Containing fat, or having the qualities of fat; greasy; gross; <as>as, a <ex>fatty</ex> substance</as>.</def>

<cs><col>Fatty acid</col> <fld>(Chem.)</fld>, <cd>any one of the paraffin series of monocarbonic acids, as formic acid, acetic, etc.; -- so called because the higher members, as stearic and palmitic acids, occur in the natural fats, and are themselves fatlike substances.</cd> -- <col>Fatty clays</col>. <cd>See under <er>Clay</er>.</cd> -- <col>Fatty degeneration</col> <fld>(Med.)</fld>, <cd>a diseased condition, in which the oil globules, naturally present in certain organs, are so multiplied as gradually to destroy and replace the efficient parts of these organs.</cd> -- <mcol><col>Fatty heart</col>, <col>Fatty liver</col></mcol>, <cd>etc. <fld>(Med.)</fld>, a heart, liver, etc., which have been the subjects of fatty degeneration or infiltration.</cd> -- <col>Fatty infiltration</col> <fld>(Med.)</fld>, <cd>a condition in which there is an excessive accumulation of fat in an organ, without destruction of any essential parts of the latter.</cd> -- <col>Fatty tumor</col> <fld>(Med.)</fld>, <cd>a tumor consisting of fatty or adipose tissue; lipoma.</cd></cs>

<h1>Fatuitous</h1> <Xpage=546>

<hw>Fa*tu"i*tous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Stupid; fatuous.</def>

<h1>Fatuity</h1> <Xpage=546>

<hw>Fa*tu"i*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>fatuitas</ets>, fr. <ets>fatuus</ets> foolish: cf. F. <ets>fatuit\'82</ets> Cf. <er>Fatuous</er>.]</ety> <def>Weakness or imbecility of mind; stupidity.</def>

<blockquote>Those many forms of popular <b>fatuity</b>. <i>I Taylor.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Fatuous</h1> <Xpage=546>

<hw>Fat"u*ous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>fatuus</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Feeble in mind; weak; silly; stupid; foolish; fatuitous.</def>

<i>Glanvill.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Without reality; illusory, like the <i>ignis fatuus</i>.</def>

<blockquote>Thence <b>fatuous</b> fires and meteors take their birth. <i>Danham.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Fat-wited</h1> <Xpage=546>

<hw>Fat"-wit`ed</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Dull; stupid.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>