Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A young animal, such as a lamb or calf, fattened for slaughter.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A lamb, kid, or other young animal fattened for slaughter; a fat animal: applied to quadrupeds the flesh of which is used for food.
- Fat; fleshy.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A calf, lamb, kid, or other young animal fattened for slaughter; a fat animal; -- said of such animals as are used for food.
Etymologies
- fat + -ling (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The fatling which is the 'head-raiser' of mankind --”
“The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.”
“The calf and the lion and the fatling will be together and a child will lead them.”
“Strangers, who wear sunglasses at night, will look at them on the street with all the familiarity of a wolf watching a fatling bunny rabbit.”
“In addition to his artistic endeavors, Hicks was also a Quaker minister, which explains the consistent religious themes in his work and the theme of the painting, which was taken from the Book of Isaiah: "The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.”
“They accompanied themselves with castanets, and, though the little fatling toed in and wore a common dress of blue-striped gingham, I am afraid she won our hearts from her graceful rival.”
“The full text reads: The wolf shall also dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.”
““The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them,” she recited.”
“¶ The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.”
“Cancut was a jolly fatling, -- almost too fat, if he will pardon me, for sitting in the stern of the imponderable canoe.”
Lists
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Words. Just words.
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The Shambles
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"A place or situation referred to as a shambles is usually a mess, but it is no longer always the bloody mess it once was. The history of the wo...rendering, packing plant, meat, hard hat, tallow, greaves, captive bolt pistol, pig scalder, scalding house, boxed beef, oleochemicals, blood meal and 42 more...
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bilby "And the wolf will dwell with the lamb,
And the leopard will lie down with the young goat,
And the calf and the young lion and the fatling together;
And a little boy will lead them."
- Isaiah 11:6, New American Standard Bible. Nov 8, 2008