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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. Related Definitions: Abounding, Abundant, Adipose, Affluent, An, And, Animal, As, Benefice, Best, Blank, Bulk, By, Character, Characterized, Cistern, Coarse, Commodities, Compositor, Containing, Corpulent, Desirable, Different, Differing, Distributed, Dull, Equivalent, Exhibiting, Fat, Fatness, Fatten, Fertile, Fleshy, Food, For, Fortunate, Fowls, Greasy, Gross, Grow, Heavy, In, Income, Job, Land, Large, Lean, Liquid, Live, Main, Make, Making, Man, Many, Matter, Measure, Much, Not, Of, Office, Oily, On, Or, Ox, Page, Part, Pasture, Plump, Producing, Productive, Profitable, Qualities, Quantity, Rich, Riches, Said, See, Seeds, Sheep, Soil, Stupid, Substance, Take, The, Therefore, Tissue, To, Tub, Unctuous, Under, Up, Vat, Vessel, Wages, Which, Widely, With, Work

Fat Quotations I found there was only one way to look thin, hang out with fat people. Rodney Dangerfield A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat. Erma Bombeck I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old. Benjamin Franklin 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 A recent police study found that you're much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run. Dennis Miller

Fat Translations fat in Afrikaans is vetterig, vet fat in Danish is fed, tyk, fedt fat in Dutch is lijvig, dik fat in Finnish is rasva, paksu fat in German is fett fat in Italian is grassello, grosso fat in Latin is pinguis fat in Norwegian is fett, fet, tykk fat in Portuguese is gordo, gordura fat in Spanish is engrase, grueso, grasa, gordo fat in Swedish is fet, fett

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