v. t. [ L. ad + fatuus foolish. ] To infatuate. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the fatty substance of milk from which butter is made. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ n., } n., etc. Same as Caliph, Caliphate, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. cho`ndros cartilage. ] (Physiol. Chem.) A colorless, amorphous, mucopolysaccharide having N-acetyl chondrosine as the repeating unit with one sulfate group per disaccharide. Typical preparations have a molecular weight of about 50, 000. Preparations are sold over-the-counter, often referred to as chondroitin, with the putative ability to relieve pain in joints and assist joint cartilage growth or regeneration; such claims are, as of 2001, yet unproven. [ PJC ]

p. a. Fated or decreed with something else. [ R. ] A. Tucker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Hot liquified fat used to deep-fry food. See deep-fry. [ PJC ]

v. t. To fry in deep fat. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ See Defatigate. ] Capable of being wearied or tired out. [ R. ] Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. defatigatus, p. p. of defatigare; de- + fatigare to weary. See Fatigue. ] To weary or tire out; to fatigue. [ R. ] Sir T. Herbert. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. defatigatio. ] Weariness; fatigue. [ R. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Fatter superl. Fattest ] [ AS. f&aemacr_;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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid. [ 1913 Webster ]

Making our western wits fat and mean. Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Make the heart of this people fat. Is. vi. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Fertile; productive; as, a fat soil; a fat pasture. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Rich; producing a large income; desirable; as, a fat benefice; a fat office; a fat job. [ 1913 Webster ]

Now parson of Troston, a fat living in Suffolk. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Persons grown fat and wealthy by long impostures. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fat lute, a mixture of pipe clay and oil for filling joints. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Vat, n. ] 1. A large tub, cistern, or vessel; a vat. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The fats shall overflow with wine and oil. Joel ii. 24. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A measure of quantity, differing for different commodities. [ Obs. ] Hebert. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The best or richest productions; the best part; as, to live on the fat of the land. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Typog.) Work. containing much blank, or its equivalent, and, therefore, profitable to the compositor. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Fatted p. pr. & vb. n. atting ] [ OE. fatten, AS. f&aemacr_;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. [ 1913 Webster ]

We fat all creatures else to fat us. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To grow fat, plump, and fleshy. [ 1913 Webster ]

An old ox fats as well, and is as good, as a young one. Mortimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. fatalis, fr. fatum: cf. F. fatal. See Fate. ] 1. Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny; necessary; inevitable. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

These thing are fatal and necessary. Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

It was fatal to the king to fight for his money. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Foreboding death or great disaster. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

That fatal screech owl to our house
That nothing sung but death to us and ours. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Causing death or destruction; deadly; mortal; destructive; calamitous; as, a fatal wound; a fatal disease; a fatal day; a fatal error. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. fatalisme. ] The doctrine that all things are subject to fate, or that they take place by inevitable necessity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. fataliste. ] One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Implying, or partaking of the nature of, fatalism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.;pl. Fatalities [ L. fatalitas: cf. F. fatalité ] 1. The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Stoics held a fatality, and a fixed, unalterable course of events. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being fatal; tendency to destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate; mortaility. [ 1913 Webster ]

The year sixty-three is conceived to carry with it the most considerable fatality. Ser T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

By a strange fatality men suffer their dissenting. Eikon Basilike. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. In a manner proceeding from, or determined by, fate. Bentley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In a manner resulting in death or ruin; mortally; destructively; as, fatally deceived or wounded. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality of being fatal. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ It.; -- so called because this phenomenon was looked upon as the work of a fairy (It. fata) of the name of Morgána. See Fairy. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The menhaden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Dull of apprehension. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. fatum a prophetic declaration, oracle, what is ordained by the gods, destiny, fate, fr. fari to speak: cf. OF. fat. See Fame, Fable, Ban, and cf. 1st Fay, Fairy. ] 1. A fixed decree by which the order of things is prescribed; the immutable law of the universe; inevitable necessity; the force by which all existence is determined and conditioned. [ 1913 Webster ]

Necessity and chance
Approach not me; and what I will is fate. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Beyond and above the Olympian gods lay the silent, brooding, everlasting fate of which victim and tyrant were alike the instruments. Froude. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Appointed lot; allotted life; arranged or predetermined event; destiny; especially, the final lot; doom; ruin; death. [ 1913 Webster ]

The great, th'important day, big with the fate
Of Cato and of Rome. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

Our wills and fates do so contrary run
That our devices still are overthrown. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The whizzing arrow sings,
And bears thy fate, Antinous, on its wings. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The element of chance in the affairs of life; the unforeseen and unestimated conitions considered as a force shaping events; fortune; esp., opposing circumstances against which it is useless to struggle; as, fate was, or the fates were, against him. [ 1913 Webster ]

A brave man struggling in the storms of fate. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sometimes an hour of Fate's serenest weather strikes through our changeful sky its coming beams. B. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. pl. [ L. Fata, pl. of fatum. ] (Myth.) The three goddesses, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, sometimes called the Destinies, or Parcæwho were supposed to determine the course of human life. They are represented, one as holding the distaff, a second as spinning, and the third as cutting off the thread. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Among all nations it has been common to speak of fate or destiny as a power superior to gods and men -- swaying all things irresistibly. This may be called the fate of poets and mythologists. Philosophical fate is the sum of the laws of the universe, the product of eternal intelligence and the blind properties of matter. Theological fate represents Deity as above the laws of nature, and ordaining all things according to his will -- the expression of that will being the law. Krauth-Fleming.

Syn. -- Destiny; lot; doom; fortune; chance. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. & a. 1. Decreed by fate; destined; doomed; as, he was fated to rule a factious people. [ 1913 Webster ]

One midnight
Fated to the purpose. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Invested with the power of determining destiny. [ Obs. ] “The fated sky.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Exempted by fate. [ Obs. or R. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. . Having the power of serving or accomplishing fate. “The fateful steel.” J. Barlow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Significant of fate; ominous. [ 1913 Webster ]

The fateful cawings of the crow. Longfellow.

-- Fate"ful*ly, adv.- Fate"ful*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. containing no fat; -- of foods. Opposite of fat-containing.
Syn. -- fatless, nonfat. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. (Zool.) (a) A cyprinoid fish of the Mississippi valley (Pimephales promelas); -- called also black-headed minnow. (b) A labroid food fish of California; the redfish. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. same as stupid. Opposite of smart. [ informal ]
Syn. -- blockheaded, boneheaded, loggerheaded, thick, thickheaded, thick-skulled, wooden-headed. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. [ OE. fader, AS. fæder; akin to OS. fadar, D. vader, OHG. fatar, G. vater, Icel. faðir Sw. & Dan. fader, OIr. athir, L. pater, Gr. path`r, Skr. pitr, perh. fr. Skr. pā protect. √75, 247. Cf. Papa, Paternal, Patriot, Potential, Pablum. ] 1. One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent. [ 1913 Webster ]

A wise son maketh a glad father. Prov. x. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor; a founder of a race or family; -- in the plural, fathers, ancestors. [ 1913 Webster ]

David slept with his fathers. 1 Kings ii. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

Abraham, who is the father of us all. Rom. iv. 16. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One who performs the offices of a parent by maintenance, affetionate care, counsel, or protection. [ 1913 Webster ]

I was a father to the poor. Job xxix. 16. [ 1913 Webster ]

He hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house. Gen. xiv. 8. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A respectful mode of address to an old man. [ 1913 Webster ]

And Joash the king of Israel came down unto him [ Elisha ], . . . and said, O my father, my father! 2 Kings xiii. 14. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A senator of ancient Rome. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A dignitary of the church, a superior of a convent, a confessor (called also father confessor), or a priest; also, the eldest member of a profession, or of a legislative assembly, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bless you, good father friar ! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. One of the chief ecclesiastical authorities of the first centuries after Christ; -- often spoken of collectively as the Fathers; as, the Latin, Greek, or apostolic Fathers. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. One who, or that which, gives origin; an originator; a producer, author, or contriver; the first to practice any art, profession, or occupation; a distinguished example or teacher. [ 1913 Webster ]

The father of all such as handle the harp and organ. Gen. iv. 21. [ 1913 Webster ]

Might be the father, Harry, to that thought. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The father of good news. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. The Supreme Being and Creator; God; in theology, the first person in the Trinity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Our Father, which art in heaven. Matt. vi. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

Now had the almighty Father from above . . .
Bent down his eye. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Adoptive father, one who adopts the child of another, treating it as his own. --
Apostolic father,
Conscript fathers, etc. See under Apostolic, Conscript, etc. --
Father in God, a title given to bishops. --
Father of lies, the Devil. --
Father of the bar, the oldest practitioner at the bar. --
Fathers of the city, the aldermen. --
Father of the Faithful. (a) Abraham. Rom. iv. Gal. iii. 6-9. (b) Mohammed, or one of the sultans, his successors. --
Father of the house, the member of a legislative body who has had the longest continuous service. --
Most Reverend Father in God, a title given to archbishops and metropolitans, as to the archbishops of Canterbury and York. --
Natural father, the father of an illegitimate child. --
Putative father, one who is presumed to be the father of an illegitimate child; the supposed father. --
Spiritual father. (a) A religious teacher or guide, esp. one instrumental in leading a soul to God. (b) (R. C. Ch.) A priest who hears confession in the sacrament of penance. --
The Holy Father (R. C. Ch.), the pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Fathered p. pr. & vb. n. Fathering. ] 1. To make one's self the father of; to beget. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cowards father cowards, and base things sire base. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To take as one's own child; to adopt; hence, to assume as one's own work; to acknowledge one's self author of or responsible for (a statement, policy, etc.). [ 1913 Webster ]

Men of wit
Often fathered what he writ. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To provide with a father. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Think you I am no stronger than my sex,
Being so fathered and so husbanded ? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

To father on or
To father upon, to ascribe to, or charge upon, as one's offspring or work; to put or lay upon as being responsible. “Nothing can be so uncouth or extravagant, which may not be fathered on some fetch of wit, or some caprice of humor.” Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. God, when considered as the first person in the Trinity.
Syn. -- Father. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The state of being a father; the character or authority of a father; paternity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Fathers-in-law The father of one's husband or wife; -- correlative to son-in-law and daughter-in-law. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ A man who marries a woman having children already, is sometimes, though erroneously, called their father-in-law. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Imitated fr. D. vaderland. See Father, and Land. ] One's native land; the native land of one's fathers or ancestors. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A European marine fish (Cottus bubalis), allied to the sculpin; -- called also lucky proach. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Destitute of a living father; as, a fatherless child. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Without a known author. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being without a father. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Fatherly. ] The qualities of a father; parantal kindness, care, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) See Daddy longlegs, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Like a father in affection and care; paternal; tender; protecting; careful. [ 1913 Webster ]

You have showed a tender, fatherly regard. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to a father. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being a father; fatherhood; paternity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. fadme, faðme, AS. fæðm fathom, the embracing arms; akin to OS. faðmos the outstretched arms, D. vadem, vaam, fathom, OHG. fadom, fadum, G. faden fathom, thread, Icel. faðmr fathom, Sw. famn, Dan. favn; cf. Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; to spread out, &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; outspread, flat, L. patere to lie open, extend. Cf. Patent, Petal. ] 1. A measure of length, containing six feet; the space to which a man can extend his arms; -- used chiefly in measuring cables, cordage, and the depth of navigable water by soundings. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The measure or extant of one's capacity; depth, as of intellect; profundity; reach; penetration. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Another of his fathom they have none
To lead their business. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Fathomed p. pr. & vb. n. Fathoming. ] 1. To encompass with the arms extended or encircling; to measure by throwing the arms about; to span. [ Obs. ] Purchas. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To measure by a sounding line; especially, to sound the depth of; to penetrate, measure, and comprehend; to get to the bottom of. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

The page of life that was spread out before me seemed dull and commonplace, only because I had not fathomed its deeper import. Hawthotne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being fathomed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who fathoms. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Incapable of being fathomed; immeasurable; that can not be sounded. [ 1913 Webster ]

And buckle in a waist most fathomless. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Incomprehensible. [ 1913 Webster ]

The fathomless absurdity. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. fatidicus; fatum fate + dicere to say, tell. ] Having power to foretell future events; prophetic; fatiloquent; as, the fatidical oak. [ R. ] Howell. -- Fa*tid"i*cal*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]