Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of fat English)
WordNet
n. a soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides); "pizza has too much fat"
a kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy; adipose tissue also cushions and insulates vital organs; "fatty tissue protected them from the severe cold" [syn: adipose tissue, fatty tissue]
excess bodily weight; "she found fatness disgusting in herself as well as in others" [syn: fatness, blubber, avoirdupois] [ant: leanness]
adj. having much flesh (especially fat); "he hadn't remembered how fat she was" [ant: thin]
having a relatively large diameter; "a fat rope"
containing or composed of fat; "fatty food"; "fat tissue" [syn: fatty] [ant: nonfat]
lucrative; "a juicy contract"; "a nice fat job" [syn: juicy]
marked by great fruitfulness; "fertile farmland"; "a fat land"; "a productive vineyard"; "rich soil" [syn: fertile, productive, rich]
a chubby body; "the boy had a rounded face and fat cheeks" [syn: rounded]
See fat
Usage examples of "fatting".
After some six weeks fatting amongst those Salvage Courtiers, at the minute of my execution, she hazarded the beating out of her owne braines to save mine, and not onely that, but so prevailed with her father, that I was safely conducted to Jamestowne, where I found about eight and thirty miserable poore and sicke creatures, to keepe possession of all those large territories of Virginia, such was the weaknesse of this poore Commonwealth, as had the Salvages not fed us, we directly had starved.
She'll see that the Confederation is the right thing to do, if we can just keep it from fatting apart too fast.
Worse still, I thought the One Called Night was fatting after me, falling faster than I was, reaching out with black, black hands in which never a star would shine.