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Definition of Fattens
1. fatten [v] - See also: fatten
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fattens
Literary usage of Fattens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Statutes at Large from the Magna Charta, to the End of the Eleventh by Great Britain (1763)
"... fattens, fattens reveries and and P1"11"1«11- ... of making of the faid teb
fattens, ... nor any fattens rever- of them, within the faid city, ..."
2. The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs. Delany: With by Delany (Mary) (1862)
"... but that she was so in the habit of " composing fattens" in her novels, that
she was not to be depended upon where she desired to work up an effect, ..."
3. The New Cure for Consumption by Its Own Virus: Illustrated by Numerous Cases by James Compton Burnett (1900)
"And here I will allow myself to interpose the remark, that Hydrastis given as
just named fattens up patients after the cure with the ..."
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