Noah Webster
Fatten
FAT'TEN, verb transitive fat'n.
1. To make fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fleshy, or plump with fat.
2. To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich; as, to fatten land; to fatten fields with blood.
3. To feed grossly; to fill.
FAT'TEN, verb intransitive fat'n. to grow fat or corpulent; to grow plump, thick or fleshy; to be pampered.
And villains fatten with the brave man's labor.
Tigers and wolves shall in the ocean breed.
The whale and dolphin fatten on the mead.