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• Fat

  ·superl Abounding with fat. II. Fat ·vi To grow fat, plump, and fleshy. III. Fat ·noun A large tub...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Fat

  (Heb. heleb) denotes the richest part of the animal, or the fattest of the flock, in the account of ...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• fat

  , or broad. If the tressing in or tuck of a ship's quarter under water hangs deep, or is overfull,...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Fat

  i.e. VAT, the word employed in the Authorized Version to translate the Hebrew term yekeb, in (Joel 2...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Fat-brained

  ·adj Dull of apprehension. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Fat-kidneyed

  ·adj Gross; lubberly. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Fat-wited

  ·adj Dull; stupid. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Otoba fat

  ·- A colorless buttery substance obtained from the fruit of Myristica otoba, a species of nutmeg tre...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• fat cull

  A rich fellow. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• fat headed

  Stupid. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• fat-cake

  n. ridiculous name sometimesapplied to Eucalyptus leucoxylon, F. v. M., according toMaiden (`Useful...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• fat-hen

  n. a kind of wild spinach.In England the name is applied to various plants of thickfoliage. 1847. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• mud-fat

  adj. fat as mud, very fat. 1891. Rolf Boldrewood, `A Sydney-side Saxon,' p. 142: «There's half th...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• guile-fat

  or gale the vat in which the beer is wrought up. N. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• to have one's fat in the fire

  is to have one's plans frustrated. A vulgar expression borrowed from the vocabulary of the kitchen. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• as fat as a hen in the forehead

  A saying of a meagre person. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose