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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 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..

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

Crackling :: Crackling (n.) Food for dogs, made from the refuse of tallow melting..

Stearin :: Stearic (a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, stearin or tallow; resembling tallow..

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

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..

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

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..

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..

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

Tallowed :: Tallowed (imp. & p. p.) of Tallo.

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

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

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

Tallow :: Tallow (v. t.) To cause to have a large quantity of tallow; to fatten; as, tallow sheep..

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

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

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..

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..

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