Definition for FAT'TEN

FAT'TEN, v.i. [fat'n.]

To grow fat or corpulent; to grow plump, thick or fleshy; to be pampered. And villains fatten with the brave man's labor. Otway. Tigers and wolves shall in the ocean breed, / The whale and dolphin fatten on the mead. Glanville.

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