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▪ I. fattening, vbl. n.|ˈfæt(ə)nɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
The process of making fat or becoming fat. Also the action of thickening (a type).
1614Markham Cheap Husb. vii. xxi. (1668) 124 Peacocks being..seldome..eaten, it mattereth not much for their fatning. 1623–6Cockeram ii, A Fattening..sagination. 1676Moxon Print. Lett. 32 The Fatning is made by setting off 5 on either side the Centre. 1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. 114 Nothing contributes more to expedite the fattening of cattle, than moderate warmth.
▪ II. fattening, ppl. a.|ˈfæt(ə)nɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That fattens. a. That makes fat. b. That grows fat.
a.1697Dryden Virg. Georg. i. 119 Load with fat'ning Dung thy fallow Ground. 1866B. Taylor Poems, Mondanim 255 Fed by fattening rains. 1876Foster Phys. ii. v. (1879) 395 Sugar or starch..is always a large constituent of ordinary fattening foods.
b.1697Dryden Virg. Past. vi. 6 Apollo..bade me feed My fatning Flocks. 1790–1811Coombe Devil upon Two Sticks (1817) VI. 185 An occasional sermon for the service of fattening ignorance, or idle opulence. 1804Earl of Lauderdale Publ. Wealth (1819) 178 Cattle and sheep of a peculiar fattening kind. |