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

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

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

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

Tallower :: Tallower (n.) An animal which produces tallow.

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..

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

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..

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

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

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..

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..

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

Dubbing :: Dubbing (n.) A dressing of flour and water used by weavers; a mixture of oil and tallow for dressing leather; daubing.

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

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

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 cause to have a large quantity of tallow; to fatten; as, tallow sheep..

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

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