the Week of Proper 19 / Ordinary 24
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Fat
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. i.) To grow fat, plump, and fleshy.
(2):
(a.) To make fat; to fatten; to make plump and fleshy with abundant food; as, to fat fowls or sheep.
(3):
(n.) Work. containing much blank, or its equivalent, and, therefore, profitable to the compositor.
(4):
(superl.) Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.
(5):
(superl.) Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich; - said of food.
(6):
(superl.) Fertile; productive; as, a fat soil; a fat pasture.
(7):
(superl.) Fleshy; characterized by fatness; plump; corpulent; not lean; as, a fat man; a fat ox.
(8):
(superl.) Abounding with fat
(9):
(n.) A measure of quantity, differing for different commodities.
(10):
(n.) A large tub, cistern, or vessel; a vat.
(11):
(n.) The best or richest productions; the best part; as, to live on the fat of the land.
(12):
(superl.) Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid.
(13):
(superl.) Rich; producing a large income; desirable; as, a fat benefice; a fat office; a fat job.
(14):
(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.
(15):
(superl.) 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.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Fat'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/f/fat.html. 1828.
