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To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich; as, to fatten land; to fatten fields with blood. Dryden.

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

To make fat by plenteous feeding; to fatten. "Battening our flocks." Milton.

B. taurus, including the bull, cow, and ox, in their full grown state; esp., an ox or cow fattened for food.

A castrated cock, esp. when fattened; a male chicken gelded to improve his flesh for the table. Shak. The merry thought of a capon. W. Irving.

To cover or dress with lard or grease; to fatten. Shak.

To make fat; to fatten; to make plump and fleshy with abundant food; as, to fat fowls or sheep. We fat all creatures else to fat us. Shak.

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.

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

One who eats or feeds; specifically, an animal to be fed or fattened. With eager feeding, food doth choke the feeder. Shak.

the act of eating, or of supplying with food; the process of fattening.

To shut up in a frank or sty; to pen up; hence, to cram; to fatten. [Obs.] Shak.

To fatten; to make fat. [Obs.] Bacon.

The act of making fat, or the state of being fat or fattened. [Obs.]

To fatten; to enrich. [The oak] with his nuts larded many a swine. Spenser. Falstaff sweats to death. And lards the lean earth as he walks along. Shak.

To feed; to fatten. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Fed; fattened. [Obs.] Tusser.

A cage for hawks while mewing; a coop for fattening fowls; hence, any inclosure; a place of confinement or shelter; -- in the latter sense usually in the plural. Full many a fat partrich had he in mewe. Chaucer. Forthcoming from her darksome mew. Spenser. Violets in their secret mews. Wordsworth.

tulana), about the size of the lark, with black wings. It is esteemed delicious food when fattened. Called also bunting.

dal river or other water on or near the seashore, where oysters are deposited to grow and fatten for market. See lst Scalp, n. -- Oyster catcher (Zoöl.), any one of several species of wading birds of the genus Hæmatopus, which frequent seashores and feed upon shellfish. The European species (H. ostralegus), the common…