FATTEN
Fat"ten, v. i.
Defn: To grow fat or corpulent; to grow plump, thick, or fleshy; to
be pampered.
And villains fatten with the brave man's labor. Otway.
FATTENER
Fat"ten*er, n.
Defn: One who, or that which, fattens; that which gives fatness or fertility.
FATTINESS
Fat"ti*ness, n.
Defn: State or quality of being fatty.
FATTISH
Fat"tish, a.
Defn: Somewhat fat; inclined to fatness.
Coleridge, a puffy, anxious, obstructed-looking, fattish old man.
Carlyle.
FATTY
Fat"ty, a.
Defn: 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.