Stearic: alternatives and connections

tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral…

A piece of tallow placed in a cavity at the lower end of a sounding lead, to bring up the sand, shells, etc., of the sea bottom.

Money obtained as the price, or at the cost, of another's life; -- said of a reward for supporting a capital charge, of money obtained…

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 tempo…

A slender, cylindrical body of tallow, containing a wick composed of loosely twisted linen of cotton threads, and used to furnish ligh…

Food for dogs, made from the refuse of tallow melting.

In currying, a mixture of fish oil and tallow worked into leather; -- called also dubbing.

A dressing of flour and water used by weavers; a mixture of oil and tallow for dressing leather; daubing.

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.

The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.

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

The sediment of melted tallow. It is made into cakes for dogs' food. In Scotland it is called cracklings.

Pertaining to, or derived from, fat. The word was formerly used specifically to designate a supposed acid obtained by the oxidation of…

To apply a lubricant to, as oil or tallow.

A place where animals are slaughtered for their hides and tallow.

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.

One of several volatile inflammable liquids obtained by the distillation of certain carbonaceous materials and resembling the naphtha…

A liquid oil made from animal fats (esp. beef fat) by separating the greater portion of the solid fat or stearin, by crystallization.…