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Fat-kidneyed
(Fat"-kid`neyed) a. Gross; lubberly.

Peace, ye fat-kidneyed rascal !
Shak.

Fatling
(Fat"ling) n. [Fat + - ling.] A calf, lamb, kid, or other young animal fattened for slaughter; a fat animal; — said of such animals as are used for food.

He sacrificed oxen and fatlings.
2 Sam. vi. 13.

Fatly
(Fat"ly), adv. Grossly; greasily.

Fatner
(Fat"ner) n. One who fattens. [R.] See Fattener. Arbuthnit.

Fatness
(Fat"ness), n.

1. The quality or state of being fat, plump, or full-fed; corpulency; fullness of flesh.

Their eyes stand out with fatness.
Ps. lxxiii. 7.

2. Hence; Richness; fertility; fruitfulness.

Rich in the fatness of her plenteous soil.
Rowe.

3. That which makes fat or fertile.

The clouds drop fatness.
Philips.

Fatten
(Fat"ten) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fattened ; p. pr. & vb. n. Fattening ] [See Fat, v. t.]

1. To make fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fleshy or plump with fat; to fill full; to fat.

2. To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich; as, to fatten land; to fatten fields with blood. Dryden.

Fatten
(Fat"ten), v. i. To grow fat or corpulent; to grow plump, thick, or fleshy; to be pampered.

And villains fatten with the brave man's labor.
Otway.

Fattener
(Fat"ten*er) n. One who, or that which, fattens; that which gives fatness or fertility.

Fattiness
(Fat"ti*ness) n. State or quality of being fatty.

Fattish
(Fat"tish) a. Somewhat fat; inclined to fatness.

Coleridge, a puffy, anxious, obstructed-looking, fattish old man.
Carlyle.

Fatty
(Fat"ty) a. Containing fat, or having the qualities of fat; greasy; gross; as, a fatty substance.

Fatty acid (Chem.), 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. — Fatty clays. See under Clay. — Fatty degeneration (Med.), 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. — Fatty heart, Fatty liver, etc. (Med.), a heart, liver, etc., which have been the subjects of fatty degeneration or infiltration. — Fatty infiltration (Med.), a condition in which there is an excessive accumulation of fat in an organ, without destruction of any essential parts of the latter. — Fatty tumor (Med.), a tumor consisting of fatty or adipose tissue; lipoma.