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FASTIDIO'SITY, f. Difdainfulnefs ; contemptuouf- 
nels. Swift. 
ASTJ'DIOUS, adj. [fafidiofus, Lat. fafidictix, fajli- 
cimijc, Fr.] Disdainful; fqueamifh; delicate to a vice; 
infolently nice.—A fqueamifli faJUdious nicenefs, in meats 
and drinks, muff be cttr.ed by ftarving. L’EjlrangCi 
I ASTI'DIOUSLY, adv. Diidainfully; contempfu- 
oudy ; fqueamifhly.—Tlieir foie talent is pride and fcorn : 
they look JhJhdiouJIy, and fpeak difdailifully. Government of 
the Tongue. 
FAS I'l'GIA, f The tops of plants, flowers, or any 
thing elfe. 
FASTFG J ATED, adj. [fajligiatus, Lat.] Roofed; 
narrowed up to the top. 
FAST'ING, part, at 11 . Abftaining from food; morti- 
lying the body by religious abftinence. 
FAST ' 1 NG-D A Y,J. Day of mortification by religious 
abflinence.—Do not call it a JaJling-day, unlefs alfo it be 
a day of extraordinary devotion and of alms. Taylor .— 
Though abflinence from eating of flefit is required on 
thofe days, by our laws, it is ncverthelefs made penal to 
affirm that any forbearing of flefli, or eating of fifli, is 
neceffary to Salvation, i Hawk. P.C. 
FAST'NEL ROCK, a rock in the Atlantic, near the 
coaft, of Ireland : five miles fouth-fouth-wefl of Cape 
Clear, and eleven fouth-eaft of Browhead. 
FAST'NESS, f. State of being fall. Firmnefs ; firm 
adherence.—Such as had given the king diftafle, did con¬ 
tend by their forwardnefs to (hew it was but their fajlne/s 
to the former government, and that thofe affedtions ended 
with the time! Clarendon. —Strength; Security : 
The foes had left the fsjlvefs of their place, 
Prevail’d in fight, and. had his men in cliacq. Dryden. 
A fireng place; a place not ealily forced.-j— If his adver¬ 
sary be not well aware of him, he entrenches himfelf in 
a new fafnefs, and holds out the Siege with a new artil¬ 
lery. Watts on the Mind. —Clofenefs; cor.cifenefs ; not dif¬ 
fusion. Not ifed. —Bring his (file from all loofe groflnefs 
to Such firm fajlnejs in Latin, as in Demoflhenes. Afcham. 
FAS'TOLF (Sir John), a valiant and renowned Englyfh 
officer, a knight banneret, who Served in France under 
Henry IV. V. and VI. was defeended from an ancient 
family in Norfolk, and born about the year 1377. Me was 
as much difiingui'hed for his virtue at home as for his va¬ 
lour abroad ; arid became no lefs amiable in his private, 
than he had been Honourable in his public, character. 
He died in 1459, upwards of eighty years of age, as we 
learn front his cotemporary William Caxton, the fil'd 
English printer. By an unaccountable midake it has been 
affected, that Shakefpeare’s Faldaff was drawn to ridicule 
this great,man ; and this has made judicious biographers 
more fludious to preferve his reputation. 
FASTUOS'iTY, /! Pride; difdainfulnefs. Scott. 
FAS'TUOUS, adj. [ fajluofus, Lat. fafueux, fajlueufe, 
Fr. ] Proud ; haughty. 
FAS'TUOUSNESS,/. Pride; haughtinefs. Scott. 
FAT, adj. [pet, Sax.] Full-fed; plump; fleffiy ; the 
contrary to lean. —Spare diet and labour will keep consti¬ 
tutions, where this difpolition is the dronged, from being 
Jat: yon may fee in an army forty thoufand- foot-loldiers 
without one fat man; and I dare affirm, that by plenty, 
and red, twenty of the forty (hall grow fat. Arbulhnot. — 
Coarfe; grofs; [fat, Fr.J 
We’re lntrry’d down 
This lubrique and adult’rale age; 
May, added fat pollutions of our own, 
T’ increafe the Steaming ordures of the dage. Dryden. • 
Dull: 
O.fouls! in whom no heav’nly fire is found, 
Fat minds, and ever-grov’ling on the ground. Dryden. 
Wealthy; rich.—Some are allured to law, not on the 
contemplation of equity, but on tiie promifing and pleaf- 
ing thoughts of litigious term ;-,/at contentious, and flow- 
F A T 
ing fees. Milton. — & fat benefice is that which fo abounds 
with an edate and revenues, that a man may expend a 
great deal in delicacies of eating and drinking. Ay life. — 
In fea-language, broad : thus, if the tuck of a diip’s quar¬ 
ter be deep, they fay, She has a fat quarter. 
FAT , f. [adtps, Lat. ] A condenfed inflammable fub- 
dance, contained in that part of the cellular membrane 
called membrana adipefa. That which furrounds the kid¬ 
neys is called axungia, axunge, or diet. I n the very young 
foetus there is fcarcely any fat ; but in the older feetus, 
fat begins to appear. When the child is born, and during 
a few years after, it hath much fat immediately beneath 
the (kin ; in men the fat is mod abundantly Spread on the 
glutei mufcles. How it is Separated from the blood, is 
not certainly known. Tiiere is alfo a fatty fubftance, 
got from the milk of animals, called Butter; for its 
properties, fee vol.iii. p.553,356. From the mod ac¬ 
curate analyfis of Crell, it appears that fat is a kind of 
oil, or butter rendered'concrete by an acid. This, which 
is called febacic acid, exids ready formed in fuet, two 
pounds affording fomewhat more than feven ounces. It 
is more fluid in living than in dead bodies ; indolence 
renders it lefs fluid, whence by inactivity it is accumu¬ 
lated. Its ufes are to keep up the heat of the body, and 
defend the vifeera from the impreffion of external cold ; 
to ferve as nourifhment or Support for the animal on the 
occafion of want, f^knefs, &c. Fat differs from fuet 
prinoipally in the great quantity of water it contains, 
which being Slowly evaporated, is converted into a Seba¬ 
ceous fubftance. In the human body it Sometimes con¬ 
cretes into.a hardifh fubftance, forming tumours of the 
fteatomatous kind. In profufe fweating the fat is melted 
down, and paffes off through the pores, and thus the per- 
fon is much weakened. The human fat does not become 
fluid when Fahrenheit’s thermometer rifes to the nine¬ 
tieth degree ; but when it begins to putrify, iteufily, and 
with a fmal! degree of warmth, runs into oil. In ceta¬ 
ceous fillies, the fat is thin as oil ; in animals that live on 
herbage only, the fat is harder, and yet harder in thofe 
that chew the cud. Animal fats preferve fteel from ruff: 
better than vegetable ones: mutton fuet prevents brafs 
from growing ill-coloured, longer than any other fat ; 
and if a little camphor and white lead is added, thefe 
ends are (till better anfwered.—For the chemical and me¬ 
dical properties of fat, fee the article Chemistry, vol. iv. 
p. 170, and 363. 
To FAT, v. a. To make fat ; to fatten ; to make plump 
and fleffiy with abundant food.—The Caribbees were 
wont to geld their children, on purpofe to fat and eat 
them. Locke. —Cattle fatted by good pafture, after violent 
motion, fometimes die fuddenly. Arbulhnot. 
To FAT, v.n. To grow fat; to grow full-flefiied.— 
The one labours in his duty with a good confidence ; the 
other, like a bead, but fatting up for the (laughter. 
DEfirange. —An old ox fats as well, and is as good, as a 
young, Mortimer. 
FAT,/, [piet:, Sax . vatte, Dut. This is generally writ¬ 
ten vat.'] A veffel in which any thing is put to ferment or 
be (baked,—The fats (hall overflow with wine and oif. 
Joel, ii. 24.—A meafure of eight bufhels. A fat of nier- 
charidife is an uncertain quantity ; as, of yarn 210 to 22-1 
bundles; of unbound books, eleven half maund ; of 
wire, twenty to twenty-five hundred-weight; of ifinglafs, 
three and a quarter to four hundred-weight. Bailey. 
FA'TA MORGA'NA, or the Fairy Morgana. See 
the article Faro.of Messina, p. 222 of this volume. 
FATAGA'R, a country of Africa, fituated to the 
fouth-eaft of Abyffinia, about lat. 9. N. and Ion. 39. E. 
Greenwich. 
FA'TAL, adj. [fatalls, Lat. fatal, Fr. ] Deadly ; mor¬ 
tal; deflxubtive; caufing deftrubtion.— A palfy in the 
brain is molt dangerous ; when it feizeth the heart, or or¬ 
gans of breathing, fatal. Arbutlinot. 
O fatal maid ! thy marriage is endow’d 
With Phrygian, Latian, and Rutilian, blood. Dryden. 
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