<adj.all> fertile farmland a fat land a productive vineyard rich soil
Fat \Fat\, n. [See {Vat}, n.] 1. A large tub, cistern, or vessel; a vat. [Obs.]
The fats shall overflow with wine and oil. --Joel ii. 24.
2. A measure of quantity, differing for different commodities. [Obs.] --Hebert.
Fat \Fat\, a. [Compar. {Fatter}; superl. {Fattest}.] [AS. f[=ae]tt; akin to D. vet, G. fett, feist, Icel. feitr, Sw. fet, Dan. fed, and perh. to Gr. pi^dax spring, fountain, pidy`ein to gush forth, pi`wn fat, Skr. pi to swell.] 1. Abounding with fat; as: (a) Fleshy; characterized by fatness; plump; corpulent; not lean; as, a fat man; a fat ox. (b) Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich; -- said of food.
2. Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid.
Making our western wits fat and mean. --Emerson.
Make the heart of this people fat. --Is. vi. 10.
3. Fertile; productive; as, a fat soil; a fat pasture.
4. Rich; producing a large income; desirable; as, a fat benefice; a fat office; a fat job.
Now parson of Troston, a fat living in Suffolk. --Carlyle.
5. Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate. [Obs.]
Persons grown fat and wealthy by long impostures. --Swift.
6. (Typog.) Of a character which enables the compositor to make large wages; -- said of matter containing blank, cuts, or many leads, etc.; as, a fat take; a fat page.
{Fat lute}, a mixture of pipe clay and oil for filling joints.
Fat \Fat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fatted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {atting}.] [OE. fatten, AS. f[=ae]ttian. See {Fat}, a., and cf. {Fatten}.] 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.
Fat \Fat\, v. i. To grow fat, plump, and fleshy.
An old ox fats as well, and is as good, as a young one. --Mortimer.
Fat \Fat\, n. 1. (Physiol. Chem.) An oily liquid or greasy substance making up the main bulk of the adipose tissue of animals, and widely distributed in the seeds of plants. See {Adipose tissue}, under {Adipose}.
Note: Animal fats are composed mainly of three distinct fats, tristearin, tripalmitin, and triolein, mixed in varying proportions. As olein is liquid at ordinary temperatures, while the other two fats are solid, it follows that the consistency or hardness of fats depends upon the relative proportion of the three individual fats. During the life of an animal, the fat is mainly in a liquid state in the fat cells, owing to the solubility of the two solid fats in the more liquid olein at the body temperature. Chemically, fats are composed of fatty acid, as stearic, palmitic, oleic, etc., united with glyceryl. In butter fat, olein and palmitin predominate, mixed with another fat characteristic of butter, butyrin. In the vegetable kingdom many other fats or glycerides are to be found, as myristin from nutmegs, a glyceride of lauric acid in the fat of the bay tree, etc.
2. The best or richest productions; the best part; as, to live on the fat of the land.
3. (Typog.) Work. containing much blank, or its equivalent, and, therefore, profitable to the compositor.
{Fat acid}. (Chem.) See {Sebacic acid}, under {Sebacic}.
{Fat series}, {Fatty series} (Chem.), the series of the paraffine hydrocarbons and their derivatives; the marsh gas or methane series.
{Natural fats} (Chem.), the group of oily substances of natural occurrence, as butter, lard, tallow, etc., as distinguished from certain fatlike substance of artificial production, as paraffin. Most natural fats are essentially mixtures of triglycerides of fatty acids.
The scientists substituted the extruded whole soybeans for the meal in an effort to retain soy oil which is relatively high in polyunsaturated fat.
Regional companies have been cutting too but less savagely, they argue, because they had less fat.
"Once they deplete their fat reserves, then they start metabolizing protein at a more extensive rate," said Glenn DelGiudice, a wildlife biologist specializing in nutrition and physiology.
KKR loaded up the cable and television company with debt in an 1985 buy-out, then later sold Storer's cable operations at a fat profit.
A different texture," he said. "You have to chew it a very long time." Cundiff and his colleagues, whose lab is at Clay Center, Neb., have worked to identify breeds or breed crosses that help improve tenderness while reducing fat.
We'll often cut fat at the corporate level.
"Avoiding fat and cholesterol is becoming more popular among h-conscious adults, but it may be too restrictive for rapidly gneed about two and a half times more calories per day, pound for pound, than adts," he said.
To keep down fat consumption, buy low- or no-fat yogurt.
He wore a fat suit, a fake moustache and had to cut off most of his hair.
Almost all of the extra financing will come from higher taxes and increased borrowing, while Germany's fat welfare budget will remain untouched.
Now, 23 months later, the Resolution Trust Corp. is finally beginning those renegotiations, buying back notes issued to shore up the institutions' net worth and trying to trim fat off the payments for covered assets.
"It was a fat, overweight industry that ran into a wall and ended up in the hospital for a few years.
Most animal fats are 45% saturated. A notable and healthy exception is fish; if fish carried such a load of saturated fat, they'd become stiff as boards in cold water and couldn't swim.
His dozen elderly men found the benefits were temporary, with the lean muscle dissolving back into fat once the hormone injections ceased.
He found that animals fed a low-fat diet like the one recommended by the American Heart Association to lower their cholesterol committed 50 percent more aggressive acts than did those eating fat levels closer to the typical American diet.
'We can't get any closer to the bone,' Goldin says. Still, a lot of fat needed to be cut.
"We can take our country back from the career politician and shock the bejabbers out of some of those fat cats who thought they were safe for years," he said.
Most obvious is the prospect of a fat fee.
However, they said people should still hold down fat consumption.
Big production and strong prices mean fat receipts.
According to a recent Food Marketing Institute survey, 42% of consumers said fat was the thing they worried about most in their daily diet.
Chocolate manufacturers have been searching for a low-calorie fat for candy, so P&G could have a winner if caprenin is approved.
But in spite of all this action against fat, only 56 percent of respondents admitted worrying about it.
And it said drugs that concentrate in fatty tissue may stay in the body longer simply because there is more fat.
This is important when, for example, doctors need to know if weight gains of premature infants and other patients are due to changes in fat, water or muscle content.
The electricity ate through his fat," says McDonald, whose real name is Joabe Pereira da Silva.
Most cholesterol is made by the liver from raw materials supplied by fat from the diet.
He has sucked fat off his wife's stomach and neck, and his 11-year-old daughter has already inquired about the procedure.
Quaker's announcement comes as the National Cattlemen's Association declared what it called a "war on fat" to bolster sales.
"He'll have to trim the fat: get rid of the boat, the mansions, the helicopter," one banker involved in the Trump talks told The Wall Street Journal.