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To F AT'TEN, v. a . To feed; to make flefhy ; to plump 
with fat.—Frequent blood-lettings, in fmall quantities, 
often increafeth the force of the organs of digeftion, and 
fatteneth and increafeth the diftemper. Arbuthnot. —To 
make fruitful.—Town of fluff to fatten land. Lib. Lon- 
dinenfs. 
Dare not, on thy life, 
Touch ought of mine; 
This falchion elfe, not hitherto withflood, 
Thefe hoflile fields (hall fatten with thy blood. Dryden. 
To feed grofly j to increafe : 
Obfcene Orontes 
Conveys his wealth to Tyber’s hungry fhores. 
And fattens Italy with foreign whores. Dryden. 
FoFAT'TEN, v.n. To grow fat; to be pampered; 
to grow flefhy : 
All agree to fpoil the public good, 
And villains fatten with the brave man’s labour. Otway. 
Tygers and wolves fhall in the ocean breed, 
The-whale and dolphin fatten on the mead, 
And every element exchange its kind, 
When thriving honefty in courts we find. Granville. 
FAT'TIK, a town of Africa, and capital of the king¬ 
dom of Sanialli, in the country of Senegal. 
FAT'TIKO, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of Je¬ 
na arrow. 
FATTIPOU'R, or Fatepour, a town of Kindooftan, 
in the province of Agra, founded by Acbar, once a mag¬ 
nificent city, but now falling to decay. It was formerly 
called Sicbry, and its name implies the habitation of liars : 
twenty-eight miles weft-fouth-weft of Agra. Lat. 27.10. N. 
Ion. 78. 8. E. Greenwich. 
FAT'TY, ad] . Umffuous; oleaginous; greafy; par¬ 
taking of the nature of fat.—The common fymptoms of 
the muriatic fcurvy are, a faline tafle in the fpittle, and a 
lixivial urine, fometimes with a fatty fubftance like a 
thin lkin a-top. Arbuthnot. 
The gourd 
Andthirfty cucumber, when they perceive 
Th’ approaching olive, with refentment fly 
Her fatty fibres, and with tendrils creep 
Diverfe, detefting contadt. Philips. 
FATUA'RIT, f. in antiquity, perfons who, appearing 
infpired, pretended to foretel things to come. The word, 
as well,as the origin of the fraternity, is from Fatua, wife 
of the god Faunus, who was fuppofed to infpire women 
with the knowledge of futurity, as Faunus did the men. 
Fatua had her name from fari, q. d. vaticinari , “to pro- 
phefy.” 
. To FAT'UATE, v.a. [fatuatum , Lat.] To play the 
fool or fimpleton. 
FATU'ITY, f. [fatuite, Fr.] Fooliflmefs; weaknefs 
of mind; morbid feeblenefs of intelledt.—It had argued 
averyfliort fight of things, and extreme fatuity of mind 
in me, to bind my own hands at their requeft. King Charles. 
FAT'UOUS, adj. [fattens, Lat. a fando, becaufe they 
are apt to talk much and foolifhly ; or rather from via fati , 
Heb. an ideot.] Silly; deficient in the powers of reafon. 
Stupid; foolilh ; feeble ,pf mind.—We pity or laugh at 
thole fatuous extravagants, while yet ourfelv^es ltave a 
confiderable dole of what makes them fo. Glanvillc .— 
Impotent; without force ; illufory ; alluding to an ignis 
fatuus : 
And when that flame finds combuflible earth, 
Thence fatuous fires and meteors take their birth. Denham. 
FAT'WITTED, adj. Heavy; dull; ftupid.—'Thou 
art fo fatwitted with drinking old lack, and unbuttoning 
thee after fupper, and deeping upon benches in the after¬ 
noon, that thou haft forgotten. Shakefpearc. 
FAVAGNA'NA, or FovognAna, an ifland of the 
Mediterranean, about feven miles in circumference, near 
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the we (lent eoafl of Sicily. It is fertile, with fome ex- 
cellent meadow land. It belongs to the houfe of Pala- 
vicini, and fometimes yields from the fifheries eighty thou- 
fand livres. Lat. 38. N. Ion. 30. 10. E. Ferro. 
FAVA'NI (La), a river of Italy, in the kingdom of 
Naples, which runs into the fea, nine miles fouth-foutlu 
eaft of Squillace. 
FAVA'RA, a river of Sicily, which runs into the Me¬ 
diterranean, about five miles fouth of Modica. 
FAUBA'ASH, a town of Upper Egypt: thirteen 
miles weft-north-weft of Dendera. 
FAU'CES,/. called alfo iftkmion ; the top of the throat. 
Upon looking into a perfon’s mouth when wide open, we 
fee a foft curtain hanging from the palate bones, named 
velum pendulum palati ; in the middle of which we like- 
wife obferve a papilla projecting from the velum, named 
uvula, or pap of the throat. From each fide of the uvula, 
at its root, two arches or columns are fent down, the an¬ 
terior to the root of the tongue, the polterior to the pha¬ 
rynx. Between thefe arches, on each fide, the cellular 
glands, called amygdala, or almonds of the ears, are fitu. 
ated. The common opening behind the anterior arch 
may be named fauces, from which there are fix paffages, 
viz. two upwards, being one to each noftril; two at the 
fides, or one to each ear, called the Eujlackian tubes ; two 
downwards, the anterior is the palfage through the glottis 
and larynx, or windpipe, into the trachea, which termi¬ 
nates in the lungs; the pofterior is the largeft, named 
pharynx , or the top of the oefophagus, which leads to the 
ftomach. See Anatomy, vol. i. p. 603, 604. 
FAU'CET, f. [ fauffet, Fr. fauces, Lat.] The pipe in- 
ferted into a veffel to give vent to the liquor, and (lopped 
up by a peg or fpigot. It is fometimes, though impro¬ 
perly, written fojfet. —You wore out a good wholefome 
forenoon in hearing a caufe between an orange-wife and a 
fffet-k Her. Shakefpeare. —If you are fent down to draw 
drink, and find it will not run, blow ftrongly into the fau¬ 
cet. Swift. 
FAU'CHET (Claude), a writer of French hiftory and 
antiquities, born at Paris in 1529. Henry IV. gave him 
a penfion, with the title of hiltoriographer. He died in 
1601. His principal works were: 1. Antiquites Gauloifts 
& Frangoifcs, in two parts ; the firft bringing down the 
hiftory of Gaul to the arrival of the Franks ; the fecond, 
from Pharamond to Hugh Capet. 2. A Treatife on the 
Liberties of the Gallican Church. 3. On the Origin of 
Knights, Coats of Arms, and Heralds. 4. Origin of the 
Dignities and Magiftrates of France. In all thefe works 
are many curious particulars not to be found elfewhere, 
yet related in a rude and barbarous ftyle, and without 
any (kill of compofition. It is faid that Fauchet’s Hiftory 
of France gave Louis XIII. a difguft to reading. Theau- 
thor was, in language and manners, a fample of the anti¬ 
quity of which he treated. All his works were printed 
together at Paris in 1610, in 4to. 
FAUCHEUR' (Michael le), an eminent French pro- 
teftant minifter in the feventeenth century. He particu¬ 
larly excelled as a preacher ; in which capacity he firft 
diftinguifhed himfelf at Montpellier, whence his increaf- 
ing reputation occafioned his being preferred to the church 
at Charenton. His difcoitrfes contained a happy mixture 
of folidity and pathos, and were recommended by the 
charms of animated and eloquent delivery. He drew up 
a learned treatife upon the Eucharift, in anfwer to the 
great work of cardinal du Perron ; which was confidered 
to be Of fuch importance in the controverfy, that it was 
printed at Geneva in 1635, folio* at the expence of the 
reformed churches. His other works were, feveral vo¬ 
lumes of Sermons on different Texts of Scripture, 8vo. ; 
Chriftian Prayers and Meditations, 8vo. ; and A Treatife 
on the Aftion of an Orator, 12010. He died at Paris in 
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FAU'CHION,/. [See Falchion.] A crooked fword: 
A (lately tomb, whole top a trumpet bore; 
A foldier’s fauckion. and a teaman’s oar. Dryden. 
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