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.