fat

a. [ Compar. Fatter superl. Fattest ] [ AS. f&aemacr_;tt; akin to D. vet, G. fett, feist, Icel. feitr, Sw. fet, Dan. fed, and perh. to Gr. pi^dax spring, fountain, pidy`ein to gush forth, pi`wn fat, Skr. pi to swell. ] 1. Abounding with fat; as: (a) Fleshy; characterized by fatness; plump; corpulent; not lean; as, a fat man; a fat ox. (b) Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich; -- said of food. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid. [ 1913 Webster ]

Making our western wits fat and mean. Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Make the heart of this people fat. Is. vi. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Fertile; productive; as, a fat soil; a fat pasture. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Rich; producing a large income; desirable; as, a fat benefice; a fat office; a fat job. [ 1913 Webster ]

Now parson of Troston, a fat living in Suffolk. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Persons grown fat and wealthy by long impostures. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Typog.) Of a character which enables the compositor to make large wages; -- said of matter containing blank, cuts, or many leads, etc.; as, a fat take; a fat page. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fat lute, a mixture of pipe clay and oil for filling joints. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Vat, n. ] 1. A large tub, cistern, or vessel; a vat. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The fats shall overflow with wine and oil. Joel ii. 24. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A measure of quantity, differing for different commodities. [ Obs. ] Hebert. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Physiol. Chem.) An oily liquid or greasy substance making up the main bulk of the adipose tissue of animals, and widely distributed in the seeds of plants. See Adipose tissue, under Adipose. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Animal fats are composed mainly of three distinct fats, tristearin, tripalmitin, and triolein, mixed in varying proportions. As olein is liquid at ordinary temperatures, while the other two fats are solid, it follows that the consistency or hardness of fats depends upon the relative proportion of the three individual fats. During the life of an animal, the fat is mainly in a liquid state in the fat cells, owing to the solubility of the two solid fats in the more liquid olein at the body temperature. Chemically, fats are composed of fatty acid, as stearic, palmitic, oleic, etc., united with glyceryl. In butter fat, olein and palmitin predominate, mixed with another fat characteristic of butter, butyrin. In the vegetable kingdom many other fats or glycerides are to be found, as myristin from nutmegs, a glyceride of lauric acid in the fat of the bay tree, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The best or richest productions; the best part; as, to live on the fat of the land. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Typog.) Work. containing much blank, or its equivalent, and, therefore, profitable to the compositor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fat acid. (Chem.) See Sebacic acid, under Sebacic. --
Fat series,
Fatty series (Chem.), the series of the paraffine hydrocarbons and their derivatives; the marsh gas or methane series. --
Natural fats (Chem.), the group of oily substances of natural occurrence, as butter, lard, tallow, etc., as distinguished from certain fatlike substance of artificial production, as paraffin. Most natural fats are essentially mixtures of triglycerides of fatty acids. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To grow fat, plump, and fleshy. [ 1913 Webster ]

An old ox fats as well, and is as good, as a young one. Mortimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. fatalis, fr. fatum: cf. F. fatal. See Fate. ] 1. Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny; necessary; inevitable. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

These thing are fatal and necessary. Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

It was fatal to the king to fight for his money. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Foreboding death or great disaster. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

That fatal screech owl to our house
That nothing sung but death to us and ours. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Causing death or destruction; deadly; mortal; destructive; calamitous; as, a fatal wound; a fatal disease; a fatal day; a fatal error. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. fatalisme. ] The doctrine that all things are subject to fate, or that they take place by inevitable necessity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. fataliste. ] One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Implying, or partaking of the nature of, fatalism. [ 1913 Webster ]