Tallow
['tæləʊ] or ['tælo]
Definition
(noun.) obtained from suet and used in making soap, candles and lubricants.
Edited by Annabel--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The suet or fat of animals of the sheep and ox kinds, separated from membranous and fibrous matter by melting.
(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.
(v. t.) To grease or smear with tallow.
(v. t.) To cause to have a large quantity of tallow; to fatten; as, tallow sheep.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Suet (freed from adhering membranes).
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Definition
n. the fat of animals melted: any coarse hard fat.—v.t. to grease with tallow.—ns. Tall′ow-can′dle a candle made of tallow; Tall′ow-catch -keech (Shak.) a keech or lump of tallow: a low mean fellow; Tall′ow-chand′ler a dealer in tallow candles &c.; Tall′ow-chand′lery the trade or place of business of a tallow-chandler; Tall′ower a tallow-chandler; Tall′ow-face a yellow pasty-faced person.—adj. Tall′ow-faced.—n. Tall′ow-tree the name given to trees of different kinds which produce a thick oil or vegetable tallow or a somewhat resinous substance capable of making candles.—adj. Tall′owy like tallow greasy.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of tallow, forebodes that your possessions of love and wealth will quickly vanish.
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Examples
- Commercial soaps are made from a great variety of substances, such as tallow, lard, castor oil, coconut oil, olive oil, etc. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- If the tallow candle, hitherto unknown, were now invented, its creator would be hailed as one of the greatest benefactors of the present age. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- You know it is a mere bachelor's room, continued he, lighting a long tallow-candle by a short piece, which was burning in a broken candlestick. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The heat of the burning tallow melts more of the tallow near it, and this liquid fat is quickly sucked up into the burning wick. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- He said, Oh no, I've got another one here, and he produced another couple of inches of tallow candle. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Anyhow, he never got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The reddleman struck a light, kindled an inch of tallow-candle which he had brought, and sheltered it with his cap. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I had the tallow of three hundred cows, for greasing my boat, and other uses. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The candles which decorate our tea tables are of wax, while those which serve for general use are of paraffin and tallow. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- He bore in his right hand a tallow candle stuck in the end of a cleft stick. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- In some provinces of Spain, I have been assured, the sheep is frequently killed merely for the sake of the fleece and the tallow. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Cannons were fired and much tallow consumed in illumination. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- On a dirty table stand scores of corresponding brass candlesticks with tallow candles for the lodgers, whose keys hang up in rows over the candles. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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