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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..

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

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

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

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.

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

Tallowish :: Tallowish (a.) Having the qualities of tallow.

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

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

Seam :: Seam (n.) Grease; tallow; lard.

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

Melt :: Melt (v.) To reduce from a solid to a liquid state, as by heat; to liquefy; as, to melt wax, tallow, or lead; to melt ice or snow..

Stuff :: Stuff (v. t.) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication..

Candle :: Candle (n.) A slender, cylindrical body of tallow, containing a wick composed of loosely twisted linen of cotton threads, and used to furnish light..

Tallow :: Tallow (v. t.) To grease or smear with tallow.

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..

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

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