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Descended from Fatima, the daughter and only child of Mohammed. -- n.

A gaping or opening; state of being chinky, or having apertures. Kirwan.

A calf, lamb, kid, or other young animal fattened for slaughter; a fat animal; -- said of such animals as are used for food. He sacrificed oxen and fatlings. 2 Sam. vi. 13.

Grossly; greasily.

One who fattens. [R.] See Fattener. Arbuthnit.

The quality or state of being fat, plump, or full-fed; corpulency; fullness of flesh. Their eyes stand out with fatness. Ps. lxxiii. 7.

To make fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fleshy or plump with fat; to fill full; to fat.

One who, or that which, fattens; that which gives fatness or fertility.

State or quality of being fatty.

Somewhat fat; inclined to fatness. Coleridge, a puffy, anxious, obstructed-looking, fattish old man. Carlyle.

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…

Stupid; fatuous.

Weakness or imbecility of mind; stupidity. Those many forms of popular fatuity. I Taylor.

Feeble in mind; weak; silly; stupid; foolish; fatuitous. Glanvill.

To infatuate. [Obs.] Milton.

Same as Caliph, Caliphate, etc.

Fated or decreed with something else. [R.] A. Tucker.

Capable of being wearied or tired out. [R.] Glanvill.

To weary or tire out; to fatigue. [R.] Sir T. Herbert.

Weariness; fatigue. [R.] Bacon.