Fatten \Fat"ten\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fattened}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fattening}.] [See {Fat}, v. t.] 1. To make fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fleshy or plump with fat; to fill full; to fat.
2. To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich; as, to fatten land; to fatten fields with blood. --Dryden.
Fatten \Fat"ten\, v. i. To grow fat or corpulent; to grow plump, thick, or fleshy; to be pampered.
And villains fatten with the brave man's labor. --Otway.
While the report, with its vacuous martial metaphors, proved a useful tool for school superintendents across America eager to fatten their budgets, little lasting change has taken place.
While rising oil prices are likely to fatten the nation's import bill, the weak economy will probably curb imports in other areas, many analysts believe.
But as demand rises, excess capacity becomes absorbed, operating rates increase and cash flows fatten, analysts predict the consolidation will indeed come.
Interest that banks receive on the Treasury bills would fatten their profits, helping them meet stringent new capital standards without pulling back on loans.
To fatten a pig for slaughter takes about six months.
Cattle prices had been falling because feedlots, which fatten livestock for slaughter, are housing a large number of unusually heavy cattle.
Feedlots fatten young cattle for slaughter, so a decline signals a tightening supply of beef.
Subsidizing ETBE would only fatten its coffers more.
"They may fatten the lines of the unemployed," he said of the strikers.
Traders are speculating that ranchers in August retreated from selling their cattle to feedlots, which fatten the animals for slaughter, because cattle prices sank a steep 7% from July.
It wanted to use local products to fatten margins.
Meanwhile, rising hog prices have made it profitable for producers to fatten up their animals a bit more before marketing them, which is contributing to the slower slaughter pace, analysts said.
But as its margins fatten, it could easily trim prices in a drive for market share.
The report substantiates recent speculation that the rise in cattle prices this year is beginning to encourage feedlot owners to fatten more animals for slaughter.
The agency proposed putting a ceiling on interstate long-distance charges but allowing AT&T to fatten its profit by cutting costs.
Exchange officials say that they are also trying to head off any attempt by legislators to try and apply to futures trading a proposal made by House Speaker James Wright (D., Texas) to tax securities trades in order to fatten federal coffers.
The United States contends the use of certain hormones to fatten animals, a common practice among American farmers, does not pose a health risk.
The U.S. is a more likely source of corn and soybean meal-commodities that the Soviets need to fatten their livestock herds in order to ease meat shortages.
Vinyl chloride monomer, a basic material, is in equally strong demand, helping fatten profit for Goodrich, which makes more monomer than it needs for its own polyvinyl chloride plants.
American farmers use the hormones to fatten cattle.
But the profit Lasmo is expected to realize from the sale would wipe out the company's debt and fatten its cash reserves.
In a decision that could fatten state coffers by millions of dollars, the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Connecticut companies should not have written off commissions they paid to their international sales subsidiaries.