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fat
CIDE DICTIONARY
- A large tub, cistern, or vessel; a vat. [1913 Webster]"The fats shall overflow with wine and oil." [1913 Webster]
- A measure of quantity, differing for different commodities. Hebert. [1913 Webster]
fat, a. [AS. f; 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.].
- Abounding with fat [1913 Webster]
- Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid. [1913 Webster]"Making our western wits fat and mean." [1913 Webster]"Make the heart of this people fat." [1913 Webster]
- Fertile; productive; as, a fat soil; a fat pasture. [1913 Webster]
- 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." [1913 Webster]
- Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate. [1913 Webster]"Persons grown fat and wealthy by long impostures." [1913 Webster]
- 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, n.
- 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] - The best or richest productions; the best part; as, to live on the fat of the land. [1913 Webster]
- Work. containing much blank, or its equivalent, and, therefore, profitable to the compositor. [1913 Webster]
To make fat; to fatten; to make plump and fleshy with abundant food; as, to fat fowls or sheep. [1913 Webster]
"We fat all creatures else to fat us." [1913 Webster]
fat, v. i.
To grow fat, plump, and fleshy. [1913 Webster]
"An old ox fats as well, and is as good, as a young one." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
fat, n., adj., & v.
--n.
1 a natural oily or greasy substance occurring esp. in animal bodies.
2 the part of anything containing this.
3 excessive presence of fat in a person or animal; corpulence.
4 Chem. any of a group of natural esters of glycerol and various fatty acids existing as solids at room temperature.
--adj. (fatter, fattest)
1 (of a person or animal) having excessive fat; corpulent.
2 (of an animal) made plump for slaughter; fatted.
3 containing much fat.
4 greasy, oily, unctuous.
5 (of land or resources) fertile, rich; yielding abundantly.
6 a thick, substantial in content (a fat book). b substantial as an asset or opportunity (a fat cheque; was given a fat part in the play).
7 a (of coal) bituminous. b (of clay etc.) sticky.
8 colloq. iron. very little; not much (a fat chance; a fat lot).
--v.tr. & intr. (fatted, fatting) make or become fat.
--n.
1 a natural oily or greasy substance occurring esp. in animal bodies.
2 the part of anything containing this.
3 excessive presence of fat in a person or animal; corpulence.
4 Chem. any of a group of natural esters of glycerol and various fatty acids existing as solids at room temperature.
--adj. (fatter, fattest)
1 (of a person or animal) having excessive fat; corpulent.
2 (of an animal) made plump for slaughter; fatted.
3 containing much fat.
4 greasy, oily, unctuous.
5 (of land or resources) fertile, rich; yielding abundantly.
6 a thick, substantial in content (a fat book). b substantial as an asset or opportunity (a fat cheque; was given a fat part in the play).
7 a (of coal) bituminous. b (of clay etc.) sticky.
8 colloq. iron. very little; not much (a fat chance; a fat lot).
--v.tr. & intr. (fatted, fatting) make or become fat.
Idiom
fat cat sl.
1 US a wealthy person, esp. as a benefactor.
2 Austral. a highly paid executive or official. fat-head colloq. a stupid person. fat-headed stupid. fat-headedness stupidity. fat hen the white goosefoot, Chenopodium album. the fat is in the fire trouble is imminent. kill the fatted calf celebrate, esp. at a prodigal's return (Luke 15). live off (or on) the fat of the land have the best of everything.
1 US a wealthy person, esp. as a benefactor.
2 Austral. a highly paid executive or official. fat-head colloq. a stupid person. fat-headed stupid. fat-headedness stupidity. fat hen the white goosefoot, Chenopodium album. the fat is in the fire trouble is imminent. kill the fatted calf celebrate, esp. at a prodigal's return (Luke 15). live off (or on) the fat of the land have the best of everything.
Derivative
fatless adj. fatly adv. fatness n. fattish adj.
Etymology
OE f{aelig}t (adj.), f{aelig}ttian (v.) f. Gmc
THESAURUS
fat
Boeotian, Haliver Oil, abounding, abounding in riches, abundant, adipose, adipose tissue, advantageous, affluent, all-sufficing, ample, animal oil, animal oils, aplenty, asinine, balmy, banausic, become overweight, bedizenment, beef tallow, beef-brained, beef-witted, beefy, big, big-bellied, big-rich, bloated, blockish, blocky, blooming, blossoming, blown up, blowzy, blubber, blubbery, bone oil, booming, bosomy, bottlenose oil, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, bovine, brawny, breadwinning, broad, broad-bodied, bulky, bull, bullnecked, burly, butter, butterfat, buttery, butyraceous, buxom, cerate, champion, choice, cholesterol, chosen, chrismal, chrismatory, chubby, chumpish, chunky, clear, cloddish, coarse, cod-liver oil, comfortable, consonant, copious, corpulent, cowish, crass, cream, deep, dense, diffuse, dilated, disgustingly rich, distended, doegling oil, doltish, dripping, drippings, dropsical, drying oil, dullard, dumb, dumpy, duncical, duncish, duplication, duplication of effort, edematous, effuse, elect, elite, embellishment, enchymatous, engross, epidemic, essential oil, ester, exhaustless, expletive, extravagance, extravagant, exuberant, fair, fatten, fattish, fatty, fatty oil, featherbedding, fertile, filling, fish oil, fixed oil, flatulent, fleshy, flourishing, flower, flowering, flush, frightfully rich, frill, frills, frippery, fruiting, full, full-bodied, gain weight, gainful, galore, gassy, gather flesh, generous, ghee, gingerbread, glyceride, going strong, goose grease, grease, greasy, great, gross, halcyon, heavy, heavyset, heavyweight, hefty, hippy, husky, hydrogenated fat, imposing, in full swing, in funds, in good case, in plenty, in quantity, in the money, incrassate, independent, independently rich, independently wealthy, ineducable, inexhaustible, inflated, klutzy, lanolin, lard, lard oil, lardaceous, lardy, lavish, leaden, liberal, lipid, lipin, lipoid, lipoma, loaded, lucrative, lumpish, lusty, luxuriant, luxurious, luxury, made of money, many, margarine, massive, massy, maximal, meaty, mineral oil, moneyed, moneymaking, much, mucoid, mutton tallow, needlessness, negligible, nonesuch, nonpareil, numerous, oafish, obese, off, oil, oily, oleaginous, oleic, oleo, oleomargarine, oleum, oofy, opaque, optimum, opulent, ornamentation, orotund, outside, overabundance, overadornment, overblown, overflow, overflowing, overkill, overlap, overmuch, overplus, overweight, padding, palmy, paragon, paunchy, paying, payroll padding, pick, pinguefy, piping, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, pleonasm, plethora, plethoric, plump, podgy, polyunsaturated fat, ponderous, porpoise oil, portly, potbellied, prevailing, prevalent, pride, prime, prize, prodigal, productive, profitable, profuse, profusive, prolixity, prospering, provided for, pudgy, puffed up, puffy, pug, pugged, pursy, put on weight, queen, quintessence, rampant, redundance, redundancy, remunerative, replete, resounding, retrousse, rich, rich as Croesus, rife, ringing, riotous, rolling in money, roly-poly, rosy, rotund, round, running over, seal oil, sebaceous, sebum, select, shortening, sleek, slender, slick, slight, slim, slippery, small, smooth, snub-nosed, soapy, sonorous, sottish, square, squat, squattish, squatty, stalwart, steroid, stocky, stout, strapping, stubbed, stubby, stumpy, stupid, suet, suety, superabundant, superfluity, superfluousness, superlative, surfeit, surplus, swelled, swollen, tallow, tallowy, tautology, teeming, the best, the best ever, the tops, the very best, thick, thick-bodied, thickset, three-dimensional, thriving, top, top-heavy, tubby, tumid, turgid, turned-up, unctuous, unguent, unguentary, unguentous, unnecessariness, unsaturated fat, unteachable, vegetable oil, ventose, verbosity, vibrant, vigorous, viscous, volatile oil, wallowing in wealth, warm, wealthy, weighty, well provided for, well-fed, well-fixed, well-found, well-furnished, well-heeled, well-off, well-paying, well-provided, well-stocked, well-to-do, whale oil, wholesale, wide, windy, wool fat, worthwhile, wrongheadedROGET THESAURUS
fat
Size
N size, magnitude, dimension, bulk, volume, largeness, greatness, expanse, amplitude, mass, proportions, capacity, tonnage, tunnage, cordage, caliber, scantling, turgidity, corpulence, obesity, plumpness, embonpoint, corporation, flesh and blood, lustihood, hugeness, enormity, immensity, monstrosity, giant, Brobdingnagian, Antaeus, Goliath, Gog and Magog, Gargantua, monster, mammoth, Cyclops, cachalot, whale, porpoise, behemoth, leviathan, elephant, hippopotamus, colossus, tun, cord, lump, bulk, block, loaf, mass, swad, clod, nugget, bushel, thumper, whooper, spanker, strapper, Triton among the minnows, mountain, mound, heap, largest portion, full size, life size, large, big, great, considerable, bulky, voluminous, ample, massive, massy, capacious, comprehensive, spacious, mighty, towering, fine, magnificent, corpulent, stout, fat, obese, plump, squab, full, lusty, strapping, bouncing, portly, burly, well-fed, full-grown, corn fed, gram fed, stalwart, brawny, fleshy, goodly, in good case, in good condition, in condition, chopping, jolly, chub faced, chubby faced, lubberly, hulky, unwieldy, lumpish, gaunt, spanking, whacking, whopping, walloping, thumping, thundering, hulking, overgrown, puffy, huge, immense, enormous, mighty, vast, vasty, amplitudinous, stupendous, monster, monstrous, humongous, monumental, elephantine, jumbo, mammoth, gigantic, gigantean, giant, giant like, titanic, prodigious, colossal, Cyclopean, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, Herculean, Gargantuan, infinite, large as life, plump as a dumpling, plump as a partridge, fat as a pig, fat as a quail, fat as butter, fat as brawn, fat as bacon, immeasurable, unfathomable, unplumbed, inconceivable, unimaginable, unheard-of, of cosmic proportions, of epic proportions, the mother of all, teh granddaddy of all.Expansion
N expansion, increase of size, enlargement, extension, augmentation, amplification, ampliation, aggrandizement, spread, increment, growth, development, pullulation, swell, dilation, rarefaction, turgescence, turgidness, turgidity, dispansion, obesity, hydrocephalus, hydrophthalmus, dropsy, tumefaction, intumescence, swelling, tumor, diastole, distension, puffing, puffiness, inflation, pandiculation, dilatability, expansibility, germination, growth, upgrowth, accretion, budding, gemmation, overgrowth, overdistension, hypertrophy, tympany, bulb, plumper, superiority of size, big bang, Hubble constant, expanded larger, &c (large), swollen, expansive, wide open, wide spread, flabelliform, overgrown, exaggerated, bloated, fat, turgid, tumid, hypertrophied, dropsical, pot bellied, swag bellied, edematous, oedematous, obese, puffy, pursy, blowzy, bigswoln, distended, patulous, bulbous, full blown, full grown, full formed, big, abdominous, enchymatous, rhipidate, tumefacient, tumefying.Unctuousness
N unctuousness, unctuosity, lubricity, ointment, anointment, lubrication, unctuous, oily, oleaginous, adipose, sebaceous, unguinous, fat, fatty, greasy, waxy, butyraceous, soapy, saponaceous, pinguid, lardaceous, slippery.Oil
N oil, fat, butter, cream, grease, tallow, suet, lard, dripping exunge, blubber, glycerin, stearin, elaine, oleagine, soap, soft soap, wax, cerement, paraffin, spermaceti, adipocere, petroleum, mineral, mineral rock, mineral crystal, mineral oil, vegetable oil, colza oil, olive oil, salad oil, linseed oil, cottonseed oil, soybean oil, nut oil, animal oil, neat's foot oil, train oil, ointment, unguent, liniment, aceite, amole, Barbados tar, fusel oil, grain oil, rape oil, seneca oil, hydrate of amyl, ghee, heating oil, #2 oil, No, 2 oil, distillate, residual oils, kerosene, jet fuel, gasoline, naphtha, stearin.Also see definition of "fat" in Bible Study Dictionaries
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