Definition of Fat

Fat

A large tub, cistern, or vessel; a vat.

A measure of quantity, differing for different commodities.

Abounding with fat

Fleshy; characterized by fatness; plump; corpulent; not lean; as, a fat man; a fat ox.

Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich; -- said of food.

Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid.

Fertile; productive; as, a fat soil; a fat pasture.

Rich; producing a large income; desirable; as, a fat benefice; a fat office; a fat job.

Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.

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.

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.

The best or richest productions; the best part; as, to live on the fat of the land.

Work. containing much blank, or its equivalent, and, therefore, profitable to the compositor.

To make fat; to fatten; to make plump and fleshy with abundant food; as, to fat fowls or sheep.

To grow fat, plump, and fleshy.

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The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
Albert Einstein

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.
Benjamin Franklin

I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.
Ronald Reagan

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
Erma Bombeck

I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people.
Rodney Dangerfield

It's simple, if it jiggles, it's fat.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
Walt Whitman

There were years when I was a beer and tequila guy, then I got real fat. And then I found that you could actually go on a diet and drink scotch. Then I got hooked on scotch, and if you get hooked on scotch, then everything else just tastes wrong.
Ron White

None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.
Paul McCartney

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.
George Orwell