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Tallow :: Tallow (n.) 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..

Suety :: Suet (n.) The fat and fatty tissues of an animal, especially the harder fat about the kidneys and loins in beef and mutton, which, when melted and freed from the membranes, forms tallow..

Rendering :: Rendering (n.) The process of trying out or extracting lard, tallow, etc., from animal fat..

Pay :: Pay (v. t.) To cover, as bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc., with tar or pitch, or waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear..

Sebiferous :: Sebiferous (a.) Producing vegetable tallow.

Daubing :: Daubing (n.) In currying, a mixture of fish oil and tallow worked into leather; -- called also dubbing..

Tallowy :: Tallowy (a.) Of the nature of tallow; resembling tallow; greasy.

Arming :: Arming (n.) A piece of tallow placed in a cavity at the lower end of a sounding lead, to bring up the sand, shells, etc., of the sea bottom..

Graves :: Graves (n. pl.) The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.

Stuffy :: Stuffing (n.) A mixture of oil and tallow used in softening and dressing leather.

Sweal :: Sweal (v. i.) To melt and run down, as the tallow of a candle; to waste away without feeding the flame..

Boottopping :: Boottopping (n.) The act or process of daubing a vessel's bottom near the surface of the water with a mixture of tallow, sulphur, and resin, as a temporary protection against worms, after the slime, shells, etc., have been scraped off..

Tallow :: Tallow (n.) The suet or fat of animals of the sheep and ox kinds, separated from membranous and fibrous matter by melting..

Raw :: Raw (superl.) Not tried; not melted and strained; as, raw tallow.

Flake :: Flake (n.) A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock; lamina; layer; scale; as, a flake of snow, tallow, or fish..

Renderer :: Renderer (n.) A vessel in which lard or tallow, etc., is rendered..

Tallower :: Tallower (n.) An animal which produces tallow.

Tallow-faced :: Tallow-faced (a.) Having a sickly complexion; pale.

Tallowing :: Tallowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tallo.

Lubricate :: Lubricate (v. t.) To apply a lubricant to, as oil or tallow..

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