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(b) Oily; greasy; unctuous;
rich; -- said of food.

2. Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal;
coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid.

Making our western wits fat and
mean.

Emerson.

Make the heart of this people fat.

Is. vi. 10.

3. Fertile; productive; as, a fat
soil; a fat pasture.

4. Rich; producing a large income; desirable;
as, a fat benefice; a fat office; a fat
job.

Now parson of Troston, a fat living in
Suffolk.

Carlyle.

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

Persons grown fat and wealthy by long
impostures.

Swift.

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.

Fat lute, a mixture of pipe clay and oil for
filling joints.

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Notes and Queries, Number 01, November 3, 1849 (page 26) First and Last Things (page 187) Words of Cheer for the Tempted, the Toiling, and the Sorrowing (page 238)

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