BATTEN (2)

batten (2). Batten, n. a narrow piece of board, a scantling

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Bat″ten, v. i. To grow fat; to grow fat in ease and luxury; to glut one's self. Dryden. The pampered monarch lay battening in ease. Garth. Skeptics, with a taste for carrion, who batten on the hideous facts in history, — persecutions, inquisitions. Emerson.