tallow cup

A lubricating device for journal boxes, ., in which tallow is employed as the lubricant. tallow-dip, subst. A tallow candle; so called on account of the proce of manufacture by dipping the wick in melted tallow. tallow-drop, s. Jewelery: The same as CARBUNCLE (q. v.). tallow-face, subst . One of a sickly pale complexion. "You tallow -face!"-Shakesp.: Romeo and Juliet , iii. 5. tallow-faced, adj . Having a sickly pale complexion. "Red, yellow, tand, tallow - faced , ."-Burton: Anat. Melancholy, p. 515. tallow-gourd, s. Bot.: Ben in casa cerifera . tallow-grease, s . Tallow, especially candle-fat. *tallow-keech, s. A ma of fat rolled up in a round lump. (TALLOW-CATCH.] tallow-shrub, s. Bot.: Myrica cerifera. [MYRICA-TALLOW.] tallow-tree, s. Botany : 1. Stilling i a sebifera , a native of China. The leaves are rhomboidal, tapering at the tip, with two glands at the top of the petiole. The fruits are IMG:content-0788.png:[blocks in formation] tally about half an inch in diameter, and have three seeds, which are covered by a kind of wax, used in China for making candles, whence the name tallow tree. They are boiled in large cauldrons, then sufficiently bruised to enable the fat to be removed without breaking the seeds, and pre ed. The candles made from this wax are coated with bees' wax to prevent them from melting in hot weather. The wood is hard, and used for printing blocks, and the leaves for dyeing black. 2. Vateria indica , a native of the Malabar coast. [VATERIA.] 3. Pentadesma butyracea. [PENTADESMA.] tăl-lōw, v. t. [TALLOW, s.] 1. To grease or smear with tallow. "Having thus ript off all our worm-eaten plank, and clapt on new, by the beginning of December, 1686, our ship's bottom was sheathed and tallowed."-Dampier: Voyages (an. 1686). 2. To fatten; to cause to have a large quantity of tallow; as, to tallow sheep.