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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.

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.

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.

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Notes and Queries, Number 01, November 3, 1849 (page 22) First and Last Things (page 15) Words of Cheer for the Tempted, the Toiling, and the Sorrowing (page 13)

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