fat-lean 
jaw, but it is also found in other |>;irts of the animal. It 
was formerly thrown away, but is now usually saved and 
tried out. 
fatling (fat'ling), n. and a. [< fafl + -f/iii/ 1 .] 
1. n. A lamb, kid, or other young animal fat- 
tened for slaughter; a fat animal: applied to 
quadrupeds the flesh of which is used for food. 
He [David] sacrificed oxen and fallings. 2 Sara. vi. 13. 
II. a. Fat; fleshy. [Rare.] 
The babe, . . . 
Uneared for, spied its mother, and began 
A blind and babbling laughter, and to dance 
Its body, and reach its fatling innocent arms 
And lazy, lingering lingers. Tennyson, Princess, vi. 
fat-lute (fat'lut), n. A mixture of pipe-clay 
and linseed-oil, used for filling joints, aper- 
tures, etc. 
fatly (fat'li), adv. 1. Grossly; greasily. Cot- 
grace. 2. In a lumbering manner, as of a fat 
person. 
Renaissance angels and cherubs in marble, floating and 
./'''/v tumbling about on the broken arches of the altars 
[of the Church of the Scalzi]. Ilowells, Venetian Life, xi. 
fatnert (fat'ner), n. An obsolete form of fat- 
tener. 
fatness (fat'nes), n. [< ME. fatties, < AS. fcet- 
nes, fastness, < fat, fat, + -nes, -ness.'] 1. The 
state or quality of being fat, plump, or full-fed; 
fullness of flesh ; corpulency. 
But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked : thou art waxen 
fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness. 
Deut. xxxii. 15. 
Asay, the point in the breast of the buck at which the 
hunter's knife was inserted to make trial of the animal's 
fatness. 
Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), Gloss. 
2. Unetuousness ; sliminess: applied to earth ; 
hence, richness ; fertility; fruitfulness. 
Right fatte or dounged lande thai loveth best, 
Or valey ther lii\leBfattenesse hath rest. 
Palladius, Uusbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 207. 
God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of 
the earth, and plenty of corn and wine. Gen. xxvii. 28. 
The clouds dropp'd fatness. Philips, Cider. 
3f. Grossness; sensuality. 
In the fatiie8 of these pursy times, 
Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg. 
Skat., Hamlet, iii. 4. 
Fatsla (fat'si-a), n. [NL., < fatsi, a native 
name.] A genus of araliaceous shrubs of east- 
ern Asia, including three species, one of which, 
F. horrida, is also native on the northwest 
Coast of America. F. papyrifera, a native of Formosa, 
but extensively cultivated on the mainland of China, has a 
large white pith, from which the so-called "rice-paper" is 
cut. 
fatten (fat'n), v. [< ME. "fatnen, < AS. ge-fcet- 
nian, fatten (= Sw. fctna, grow fat), < f<et, fat: 
see fa ft, a. Cf.faft, r.] I. trans. 1. To make 
fat; feed for slaughter; make fleshy or plump 
with fat. 
Yea, their Apis might not drinke of Nilus, for this riuers 
fatning qualitie, but of a fountaiiie peculiar to his holi- 
nesse. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 571. 
Fatten the courtier, starve the learned band. 
Pope, Dunciad, i. 315. 
2. To enrich ; make fertile and fruitful. 
Dare not, on thy life, 
Touch aught of mine : 
This falchion else, not hitherto withstood, 
These hostile fields shall fatten with thy blood. 
Dryden. 
When wealth . . . shall slowly melt 
In many streams to fatten lower lands. 
Tennyson, Golden Year. 
II. intrans. To grow fat or corpulent ; grow 
plump, thick, or fleshy. 
And villains/atfen with the brave man's labour. Otway. 
The Pere and his Capuchins slept and ate 
And thrived and fattened for many a year, 
Ungrudged by none of their royal cheer. 
Harper's Mag., LXXVI. 187. 
fattener (fat'uer), n. One who or that which 
fattens; that which gives fatness, or richness 
and fertility. 
The wind was west, on whiuh that philosopher bestowed 
the encomium of fatner of the earth. Arbuthnot. 
fattiness (fat' i-nes), n. The state of being fatty ; 
grossness; greasiness. 
Having now spoken of hardning of the juices of the 
body, we are to come next to the oleosity or fattiness of 
them. Bacon, Life and Death. 
fatting-knife (fat'ing-nif), . Same as mack- 
erel-plow. 
fattrels (fat'relz), n. pi. [So., also written fat- 
trtts; < OF.fatraille, trash, trumpery, connect- 
ed with fatras, a confused heap or bundle of 
trash, trifles ; origin uncertain.] 1. The ends 
of a ribbon. 2. The folds or puckerings in a 
woman's dress. 
2156 
Now, haud ye there, ye're out o' sight, 
Below the fatt'rells, snug and tight. 
Burns, To a Louse. 
fatty (fat'i), a. [< faft, n., + -yi.] 1. Con- 
sisting of fat. 2. Containing fat ; adipose: as, 
fatty tissue. 3. Having certain of the proper- 
ties of fat ; especially, having a greasy feel ; re- 
sembling fat. 
The fatty compound of copper is produced when blue 
vitriol is mixed with a hot and strong solution of soap. 
O'Neill, Dyeing and Calico Printing, p. 185. 
The clay should be/otty and plastic. 
C. T. Davis, Bricks and Tiles, p. 286. 
Fatty acids, a class of monobasic acids formed by the 
oxidation of the primary alcohols. Formic and acetic 
acids are the simplest of the series. The more complex 
fatty acids are found in all oleaginous compounds, where 
they exist combined with glycerin, forming fats. When a 
fat is heated with a stronger base than glycerin, as potash 
or soda, the fatty acids leave the glycerin and combine 
with the metallic base, forming a soap. By treating the 
soap with a stronger acid, the fatty acids are displaced 
and set free. The most common of the complex fatty 
acids are oleic, stearic, and palmitic acids. Fatty de- 
generation. See degeneration. fsMy tissue. Same as 
adipose tissue, (which see, under adipose). 
fatuitOUS (fa-tu'i-tus), a. [< fatuity + -mis.] 
Characterized by fatuity ; foolish ; fatuous. 
We cry aloud for new avenues and consumers for the 
productions of our industry, and at the same time decline, 
with a fatuitous persistence, to take any step to obtain 
the one or to reach the other. 
G. F. Edmunds, Harper's Slag., LXXVI. 432. 
fatuity (fa-tu'i-ti), n. [=~F.fatuite = Pr.fatu- 
itat = Sp.'fatuitad = Pg. fatuitade = It. fatuitd, 
< L. fatuita(t-)s, foolishness, < fatuus, foolish: 
see fatuous.] 1. Self-conceited foolishness; 
weakness of mind with high self-esteem ; un- 
conscious stupidity ; also, as applied to things, 
springing from or exhibiting such traits. 
The follies which Moliere ridicules are those of affecta- 
tion, not those ot fatuity. Macaulay, Machiavelli. 
He still held to an impossible purpose with a tenacity 
which resembled/afm'ty. Motley, Dutch Republic, II. 336. 
James II. attacked with a strange fatuity the very 
Church on whose teaching the monarchical enthusiasm 
mainly rested, and thus drove the most loyal of his sub- 
jects into violent opposition. Lecky, Eng. in 18th Cent., i. 
2. Idiocy; congenital dementia ; imbecility. 
Idiocy, or fatuity a nativitate, vel dementia naturalis, 
. . . one . . . who knows not to tell twenty shillings, nor 
knows his own age, or who was his father. 
Sir M. Hale, Pleas of the Crown. 
fatuous (fat'u-us), a. [= Sp. Pg. It.fatuo, < L. 
fatuus, foolish, simple, silly, rarely insipid, 
tasteless (hence, through this sense, ult. E. 
fade*, o.,q. v.); as a noun, fatuus, fera. fatua, a, 
fool, a professional jester.] 1. Foolish; fool- 
ishly conceited; feebly or stupidly self-suffi- 
cient ; unconsciously silly : applied both to per- 
sons and to their acts. 
We pity or laugh at those fatuous extravagants. 
Glanville. 
The home government, in its fatuous policy of exasper- 
ating and vacillating dealing with the rebellion in the 
colonies. The Atlantic, LVIII. 561. 
2. Idiotic; demented; imbecile. 
In Scots law, a fatuous person, or an idiot, is one who, 
from a total defect of judgment, is incapable of managing 
his affairs. He is described as having an uniform stupid- 
ity and inattention in his manner and childishness in his 
speech. Bell's Law Diet. 
3. Unreal; illusory, like the ignis fatuus. 
Thence fatuous fires and meteors take their birth. 
Sir J. Denham. 
fatva, fatvah (fat'va), . Same &sfetwa. 
No decree of the Sultan touching any part of the Sacred 
Law has any force till it has received the fatvah (dogmatic 
sanction) of the Sheik-ul Islam. 
Contemporary Rev., LIU. 551. 
fat-witted (f at'wif'ed), a. Having a fat or dull 
wit; dull; stupid. 
Thou art . . . fat-witted with drinking of old sack. 
Shak., 1 Hen. IV., i. 2. 
faubourg (fo'borg), n. [F., formerly spelled 
faux-bourg, a form corrupted by popular etym., 
as if 'false town' ((faux, false); < OF.forbourg, 
fobour, forbourc, forbore, fortbourc, etc., lit. 
' out-town,' equiv. to L. suburbium, suburb ; < 
OF. fors,foers, foer, fur, also hors, F. tiors, out, 
beyond, < L. foris, out of doors (see door and 
forum), + bourg, town, borough: see borough 1 , 
burg 1 . Cf. ML. forisbarium, suburb, lit. out- 
side of the barriers.] A suburb, especially a 
part of a French city immediately beyond its 
walls ; also, in many cases, a quarter formerly 
so situated, but now within the limits of a city : 
as, the Faubourg St. Germain, Faubourg St. An- 
toine, etc., of Paris. 
On approaching it [the headquarters or capital of the 
Zaporovians] from the steppe, the traveler first entered a 
faubourg or bazaar, in which there was a considerable 
population of Jewish traders. 
D. M. Wallace, Russia, p. 366. 
faucitis 
Westwards, between El-Medinah and its faubourtj, lies 
the plain of Kl-Mlinakliah, about three quarters of a mile 
long by 300 yards broad. 
R. F. Burton, El-Mt-dlnah, p. 240. 
faucal (fa'kal), a. and n. [< L. fauces, the 
throat (see fauces), + -/.] I. a. Pertaining to 
the fauces or opening of the throat : specifically 
applied to certain deep guttural sounds, pecu- 
liar to the Semitic and some other tongues, 
which are produced in the fauces. 
They [the Semitic alphabets] possess a notation for the 
faucal breaths. Isaac Taylor, The Alphabet, I. 160. 
II. . In phonetics, a sound produced in the 
fauces. 
Cheth, defined as a "fricative faucal," was a strongly 
marked continuous guttural sound produced at the back 
of the palate. Isaac Taylor, The Alphabet, I. 181. 
fauces (fa'sez), n. pi. [L., rarely in sing, faux 
(fauc-), the throat, the gullet; origin uncer- 
tain.] 1 . The throat or gullet. [Bare or obso- 
lete.] 2. In anat., specifically, the back part 
of the mouth, leading into the pharynx ; the 
passage from the buccal cavity proper to the 
cavity of the pharynx, overhung by the soft pal- 
ate, and bounded on each side by the pillars of 
the soft palate. [The word has no singular, and 
is used cniefly in the two phrases given below.] 
3. In conch., that part of the cavity of the 
first chamber of a shell which may be seen by 
looking in at the aperture. 4. In bot., the 
opening or throat of the tube of a gamopetalous 
corolla. Isthmus of the fauces, the contracted space 
between the pillars of the fauces of opposite sides. Pil- 
lars "i- arches of the fauces, anterior and posterior, 
on each side, ridges of mucous membrane formed by the 
prominence of the palatoglossal and palatopharyngeal 
muscles. 
faucet (fa'set), . [E. dial, fosset (also fas- 
set: see fascet); < ME. faucet, fawcet, fawset, 
facett, faucet, in both senses, < OF. fattsset, also 
spelled faulset, F. fausset, a faucet, < OF. faus- 
ser, faulser, pierce, strike or break through 
(a shield, armor, a troop, etc.), earlier fauser, 
falser, break, bend, and lit. make false, falsify, 
forge, < OF.fals,faus, false : see false, v. <.] 1. 
A device fixed in a receptacle or pipe to control 
the flow of liquid from it by opening or closing 
an orifice. A faucet of the original form is a hollow plug 
inserted in the head or side of a cask, with a transverse 
perforation in its projecting part for the reception of a 
solid peg or spigot, which is removed to permit the (low 
of liquid. Faucets are now made in a great variety of 
forms, commonly with the spigot or valve itself also per- 
forated, to be turned by a handle or cock for opening or 
closing the orifice, but sometimes with valves otherwise 
constructed and controlled. 
Than was founde a fell [fierce, sharp] fawset, 
In the trie [choice] tiinne it was sette. 
Holy Hood (E. E. T. S.), p. 211. 
Stryke out the heed of your vesselles ; our men be to 
thrustye to tarye tyll their drinke be 
drawen with & faulted. 
Palsgrave, French Grammar, p. 740. 
You see, marble bath, faucets for hot 
water and cold. 
W. M. Baker, New Timothy, p. 169. 
2. The enlarged end of a pipe fitted 
to the spigot-end of another pipe. 
Self-closing faucet, a faucet of which 
the valve is secured to its seat by a spring 
to prevent the passage of the liquid, a lever 
lifting it when the liquid is to be drawn off. 
faucet-bit (fa'set-bit), n. A cut- 
ting-lip and router on a faucet; a 
boring-faucet. 
faucet-joint (fa'set-joint), n. 1. 
A form of expansion pipe-joint. 
2. A form of breech-loading fire- 
arm employing a perforated plug 
to uncover the rear of the bore. 
fauchard (fo'shard), n. [OF., also 
faussard, faussart, etc., < faux, a 
scythe, < L./ate, a sickle: see/ate.] 
A weapon of the middle ages con- 
sisting of a scythe-shaped blade Fauchard of 
with a lone handle, and differing the *s> _ cen - 
.1 .1 . ^ . AI, tury. (Horn 
from the war-scythe in having the vioiiet-ie-Duc's 
sharp edge convex. It is often 
confused with the guisanne and ca'") 
the halberd. Alsofalsarium. 
f auction t, fauchont, Obsolete forms of fal- 
chion. 
faucht (facht), n. A Scotch variant of fight. 
faucial (fa'sial), a. [< fauces + -ial.~\ Of or per- 
tain ing to the fauces; faucal. 
You have now a ragged mass of tissue between the/a- 
cial pillars, full of holes and lodging places for food and 
secretions. Medical News, LII. 382. 
faucitis (fa-si'tis), n. [NL., < fauces, throat, 
+ -ito.] In pathol., inflammation about the 
fauces. 
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