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

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

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

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..

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..

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.

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

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

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..

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

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..

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

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

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

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..

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

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..

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

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

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