transitive. To feed (animals) on mast; to fatten.

transitive. To make fat, fatten; usually, to feed (animals) for use as food. Also to fat up.

To put (a horse, etc.) up in a stable; occasionally to keep (cattle) up to fatten them. Obsolete.

transitive. To make fat or plump. Also to fatten up. Usually: To feed (animals) for market, make fit to kill. Const. on.

To fill with food, to pamper; to fatten, make fleshy; occasionally of the food. dialect. to feed (full and) high, to feed up: to supply or obtain…

= farce, v.1 3. Also, to fatten (animals).

esp. To feed with excess of food (spec. poultry, etc., to fatten them for the table); to overfeed, stuff, fill to satiety.

transitive. To fill with grease; to fatten.

transitive. to raise in flesh: to fatten (an animal); also in extended use. Obsolete.

transitive. To fatten (animals). Also figurative.

To put (an animal) in a stall; to keep or confine in a stall, esp. for fattening; also to stall to (a particular kind of food), to stall up.

transitive. To cause (cattle, etc.) to form tallow; to fatten. (Cf. tallowed, adj. 2.)

Of an animal: To undergo feeding or fattening in a stall.

transitive and intransitive. To fatten. Also, to weigh (a specified weight) after fattening.

to fat off: to fatten for sale or slaughter.

To prepare. transitive. To get (a horse) into good condition, either for selling or for sporting performance; (also) to fatten (any animal) for the…

transitive. To buy and fatten up for the market. local. (Cf. higgler, n. 2b.)

To complete or perfect the fatting of (cattle).

to feed off: to fatten (an animal) for sale or slaughter.

With up: Agriculture, to subject (an animal) to steaming up (see steaming, n. 5).