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.
Otway.
Fat"ten*er (?), n. One who, or that which, fattens; that which gives
fatness or fertility.
Fat"ti*ness (?), n. State or quality of being fatty.
Fat"tish (?), a. Somewhat fat; inclined to fatness.
Coleridge, a puffy, anxious, obstructed-looking, fattish old man.
Carlyle.
Fat"ty (?), a. Containing fat, or having the qualities of fat; greasy;
gross; as, a fatty substance.
Fatty acid (Chem.), any one of the paraffin series of monocarbonic
acids, as formic acid, acetic, etc.; -- so called because the higher
members, as stearic and palmitic acids, occur in the natural fats, and
are themselves fatlike substances. -- Fatty clays. See under Clay. --
Fatty degeneration (Med.), a diseased condition, in which the oil
globules, naturally present in certain organs, are so multiplied as
gradually to destroy and replace the efficient parts of these organs.
-- Fatty heart, Fatty liver, etc. (Med.), a heart, liver, etc., which
have been the subjects of fatty degeneration or infiltration. -- Fatty
infiltration (Med.), a condition in which there is an excessive
accumulation of fat in an organ, without destruction of any essential
parts of the latter. -- Fatty tumor (Med.), a tumor consisting of fatty
or adipose tissue; lipoma.
Fa*tu"i*tous (?), a. Stupid; fatuous.
Fa*tu"i*ty (?), n. [L. fatuitas, fr. fatuus foolish: cf. F. fatuitÈ Cf.
Fatuous.] Weakness or imbecility of mind; stupidity.
Those many forms of popular fatuity.