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Five-day forecast for Jeanne.
Five computer models for Jeanne. The most accurate model for three previous storms of the season, the NOGAPS model, has Jeanne coming nearest our way.
bat·ten v. bat·tened, bat·ten·ing, bat·tens v. intr.
1. To become fat.
2. To thrive and prosper, especially at another's expense:
Five-day forecast for Jeanne.
Five computer models for Jeanne. The most accurate model for three previous storms of the season, the NOGAPS model, has Jeanne coming nearest our way.
bat·ten v. bat·tened, bat·ten·ing, bat·tens v. intr.
1. To become fat.
2. To thrive and prosper, especially at another's expense:
The pampered monarch lay battening in ease. --Garth.batten
Skeptics, with a taste for carrion, who batten on the hideous facts in history, -- persecutions, inquisitions. --Emerson.
n 1: stuffing made of rolls or sheets of cotton wool or synthetic fiber [syn: batting] 2: a strip fixed to something to hold it firm v 1: furnish with battens; "batten ships" [syn: batten down, secure] 2: secure with battens; "batten down a ship's hatches"
posted by Tom Matrullo at Saturday, September 25, 2004
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