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.
Fat (?), n. 1. (Physiol. Chem.) 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.
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.
2. The best or richest productions; the best part; as, to live on the
fat of the land.
3. (Typog.) Work. containing much blank, or its equivalent, and,
therefore, profitable to the compositor.
Fat acid. (Chem.) See Sebacic acid, under Sebacic. -- Fat series, Fatty
series (Chem.), the series of the paraffine hydrocarbons and their
derivatives; the marsh gas or methane series. -- Natural fats (Chem.),
the group of oily substances of natural occurrence, as butter, lard,
tallow, etc., as distinguished from certain fatlike substance of
artificial production, as paraffin. Most natural fats are essentially
mixtures of triglycerides of fatty acids.
Fat, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fatted (?); p. pr. & vb. n. atting (?).] [OE.
fatten, AS. fttian. See Fat, a., and cf. Fatten.] To make fat; to
fatten; to make plump and fleshy with abundant food; as, to fat fowls
or sheep.
We fat all creatures else to fat us.
Shak.
Fat, v. i. To grow fat, plump, and fleshy.
An old ox fats as well, and is as good, as a young one.
Mortimer.
Fa"tal, a. [L. fatalis, fr. fatum: cf. F. fatal. See Fate.] 1.
Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny; necessary;
inevitable. [R.]
These thing are fatal and necessary.
Tillotson.
It was fatal to the king to fight for his money.
Bacon.