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

Render :: Render (v. t.) To try out or extract (oil, lard, tallow, etc.) from fatty animal substances; as, to render tallow..

Tallowing :: Tallowing (n.) The act, or art, of causing animals to produce tallow; also, the property in animals of producing tallow..

Wick :: Wick (n.) A bundle of fibers, or a loosely twisted or braided cord, tape, or tube, usually made of soft spun cotton threads, which by capillary attraction draws up a steady supply of the oil in lamps, the melted tallow or wax in candles, or other material used for illumination, in small successive portions, to be burned..

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

Try :: Try (v. t.) To purify or refine, as metals; to melt out, and procure in a pure state, as oil, tallow, lard, etc..

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..

Grease :: Grease (n.) Animal fat, as tallow or lard, especially when in a soft state; oily or unctuous matter of any kind..

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

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

Matanza :: Matanza (n.) A place where animals are slaughtered for their hides and tallow.

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

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

Greaves :: Greaves (n. pl.) The sediment of melted tallow. It is made into cakes for dogs' food. In Scotland it is called cracklings.

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

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..

Stearolic :: Stearin (n.) One of the constituents of animal fats and also of some vegetable fats, as the butter of cacao. It is especially characterized by its solidity, so that when present in considerable quantity it materially increases the hardness, or raises the melting point, of the fat, as in mutton tallow. Chemically, it is a compound of glyceryl with three molecules of stearic acid, and hence is technically called tristearin, or glyceryl tristearate..

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

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..

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

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