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.

transitive. To shut up and feed (up) in a frank.

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…

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.

transitive. To fatten (animals). Also figurative.

transitive. To improve, feed to advantage, fatten up. Obsolete. (The past participle battened, belonged originally to the intransitive sense; cf…

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.)

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).

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

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).