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FATNESS n. 3 definitions
The quality or state of being fat, plump, or full-fed; corpulency; fullness of flesh. Their eyes stand out with fatness. Ps. lxxiii. 7.
FATTEN v. 3 definitions
To make fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fleshy or plump with fat; to fill full; to fat.
FATTENER n.
One who, or that which, fattens; that which gives fatness or fertility.
FATTINESS n.
State or quality of being fatty.
FATTISH a.
Somewhat fat; inclined to fatness. Coleridge, a puffy, anxious, obstructed-looking, fattish old man. Carlyle.
FATTY 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 subs…
FATUITOUS a.
Stupid; fatuous.
FATUITY n.
Weakness or imbecility of mind; stupidity. Those many forms of popular fatuity. I Taylor.
FATUOUS a. 2 definitions
Feeble in mind; weak; silly; stupid; foolish; fatuitous. Glanvill.
FAUBOURG n.
A suburb of French city; also, a district now within a city, but formerly without its walls.
FAUCAL a.
Pertaining to the fauces, or opening of the throat; faucial; esp., (Phon.) produced in the fauces, as certain deep guttural sounds found in the Semitic and some other languages. Ayin is the most difficult of the faucals. I. Taylor (The Alphabet).
FAUCES n. 3 definitions
ted between the soft palate and the base of the tongue; -- called also the isthmus of the fauces. On either side of the passage two membranous folds, called the pillars of the fauces, inclose the tonsils.
FAUCET n. 2 definitions
A fixture for drawing a liquid, as water, molasses, oil, etc., from a pipe, cask, or other vessel, in such quantities as may be desired; -- called also tap, and cock. It consists of a tubular spout, stopped with a movable plug, spigot, valve, or slide.
FAUCHION n.
See Falchion. [Obs.]
FAUCIAL a.
Pertaining to the fauces; pharyngeal.
FAUGH interj.
An exclamation of contempt, disgust, or abhorrence.
FAULCHION n.
See Falchion.
FAULCON n.
See Falcon.
FAULD n.
The arch over the dam of a blast furnace; the tymp arch.
FAULE n.
A fall or falling band. [Obs.] These laces, ribbons, and these faules. Herrick.
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