tallows
- present tense form of tallow (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Milling-base.—The materials generally used are tallows and cocoa-nut oils of the finest quality.
From The Handbook of Soap Manufacture by Simmons, W. H.
Although the warp yarn is made very soft and pliable by boiling and beetling, the weaver always tallows it in order to make it work more easily.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various
It often happens, especially with the tallows, that a dark colored sample produces a light colored soap, whereas a bleached light colored tallow produces a soap off shade.
From Soap-Making Manual A Practical Handbook on the Raw Materials, Their Manipulation, Analysis and Control in the Modern Soap Plant. by Thomssen, E. G.
The oil and tallows which are chiefly carbon and hydrogen, unite with the oxygen of the air and form carbonic acid and watery vapor, producing heat during the process.
From American Woman's Home by Beecher, Catharine Esther
Their only question will be that of their Legendre, or some oilier of their legislative butchers: How he cuts up; how he tallows in the caul or on the kidneys.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
