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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..

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

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

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

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

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

Tallow-face :: Tallow-face (n.) One who has a sickly, pale complexion..

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

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..

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

Saponify :: Saponify (v. t.) To convert into soap, as tallow or any fat; hence (Chem.), to subject to any similar process, as that which ethereal salts undergo in decomposition; as, to saponify ethyl acetate..

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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