tallow

• The tallow, as soon as it is congealed, looks like common tallow or wax, but has a dirty green color. —  Home Life in Colonial Days
• This tallow is dearer than common tallow, but cheaper than wax. —  Home Life in Colonial Days
• Keep the tallow hot, over a portable furnace, and fill up the kettle, with hot water, as fast as the tallow is used up. —  A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School
• But when the A C attacked the tallow of the candle he astonished us more For, so to speak, he took the tallow, and he said to himself, Now, here's tallow--an unpleasant animal fat: let's see what it is made of Years ago I should have at once told him that it was grease, obtained by melting down the soft parts of an animal. —  Cormorant Crag A Tale of the Smuggling Days
• Candles are kept burning by means of a wick of cotton or rush, placed in the centre of the tallow, which is moulded into a cylindrical form Cylindrical_, having the form of a cylinder Is there not a tree which yields a vegetable Tallow Yes; China possesses a tree producing a substance like our tallow, of which the Chinese make their candles; this tallow is extracted from the stone of the fruit, the tallow being a white pulp which surrounds it. —  A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery. With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena. For the Use of Schools and Families. Enlarged and Revised Edition.

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