Tallow

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  • noun. Hard fat obtained from parts of the bodies of cattle, sheep, or horses, and used in foodstuffs or to make candles, leather dressing, soap, and lubricants.
  • noun. Any of various similar fats, such as those obtained from plants.
  • transitive verb. To smear or cover with tallow.
  • transitive verb. To fatten (animals) in order to obtain tallow.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To grease or smear with tallow.
  • To fatten; cause to have a large quantity of tallow: as, to tallow sheep.
  • noun. The harder and less fusible fats melted and separated from the fibrous or membranous matter which is naturally mixed with them.
  • Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling tallow: as, a tallow cake; a tallow dip.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To grease or smear with tallow.
  • transitive verb. To cause to have a large quantity of tallow; to fatten.
  • noun. The suet or fat of animals of the sheep and ox kinds, separated from membranous and fibrous matter by melting.
  • noun. The fat of some other animals, or the fat obtained from certain plants, or from other sources, resembling the fat of animals of the sheep and ox kinds.
  • noun. a candle made of tallow.
  • noun. a keech.
  • noun. one whose occupation is to make, or to sell, tallow candles.
  • noun. the trade of a tallow chandler; also, the place where his business is carried on.
  • noun. a tree (Stillingia sebifera) growing in China, the seeds of which are covered with a substance which resembles tallow and is applied to the same purposes.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. a hard animal fat obtained from suet etc.; used to make candles, soap and lubricants
  • verb. To grease or smear with tallow.
  • verb. To cause to have a large quantity of tallow; to fatten.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. obtained from suet and used in making soap, candles and lubricants
  • Word Usage
    "All the fat of the inwards, that which we call the tallow and suet, with the caul that encloses it and the kidneys in the midst of it, were to be taken away, and burnt upon the altar, as an offering made by fire, v. 3-5."
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    Gallo  ballow  balow  callow  cavallo  
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    alum  beeswax  butter  charcoal  grease  
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