That from which supplies are drawn; a storehouse; a
magazine; a repository.
1. To make fat by plenteous feeding; to fatten. "Battening our flocks." Milton. 2. To fertilize or enrich, as land.
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,...