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A large tub, cistern, or vessel; a vat. [Obs.] The fats shall overflow with wine and oil. Joel ii. 24.

Dull of apprehension.

Gross; lubberly. Peace, ye fat-kidneyed rascal ! Shak.

Dull; stupid. Shak.

A kind of mirage by which distant objects appear inverted, distorted, displaced, or multiplied. It is noticed particularly at the Straits of Messina, between Calabria and Sicily.

Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny; necessary; inevitable. [R.] These thing are fatal and necessary. Tillotson. It was fatal to the king to fight for his money. Bacon.

The doctrine that all things are subject to fate, or that they take place by inevitable necessity.

One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity.

Implying, or partaking of the nature of, fatalism.

The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control. The Stoics held a fatality, and a fixed, unalterable course of events. South.

In a manner proceeding from, or determined by, fate. Bentley.

, . Quality of being fatal. Johnson.

The menhaden.

e is determined and conditioned. Necessity and chance Approach not me; and what I will is fate. Milton. Beyond and above the Olympian gods lay the silent, brooding, everlasting fate of which victim and tyrant were alike the instruments. Froude.

Decreed by fate; destined; doomed; as, he was fated to rule a factious people. One midnight Fated to the purpose. Shak.

Having the power of serving or accomplishing fate. "The fateful steel." J. Barlow.

A cyprinoid fish of the Mississippi valley (Pimephales promelas); -- called also black-headed minnow.

en a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent. A wise son maketh a glad father. Prov. x. 1.

See Daddy longlegs, 2.

The father of one's husband or wife; -- correlative to son-in- law and daughter-in-law.