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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..

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..

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

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..

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

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

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

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..

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

Greaves :: Greaves (n. pl.) The sediment of melted tallow. It is made into cakes for dogs' food. In Scotland it is called cracklings.

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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