Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - tallow
Tallow
tallow
n. & v. --n. the harder kinds of (esp. animal) fat melted down for use in making candles, soap, etc. --v.tr. grease with tallow. Phrases and idioms tallow-tree any of various trees, esp. Sapium sebiferum of China, yielding vegetable tallow. vegetable tallow a vegetable fat used as tallow. Derivatives tallowish adj. tallowy adj. Etymology: ME talg, talug, f. MLG talg, talch, of unkn. orig.
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English talgh, talow; akin to Middle Dutch talch ~ Date: 14th century the white nearly tasteless solid rendered fat of cattle and sheep used chiefly in soap, candles, and lubricants, ~y adjective II. transitive verb Date: 15th century to grease or smear with ~ ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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