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TAYLOR MEMORIAL UNITED METHODIST Credit Union (finance) and tallow (iou)


TAYLOR MEMORIAL UNITED METHODIST Credit Union (finance)


TAYLOR MEMORIAL UNITED METHODIST is a credit union with head office in OAKLAND, CA





tallow (iou)



tallow noun & verb. As noun also (earlier) talg, talug. ME.
[Middle Low German talg, talch, of unkn. origin.]
A. noun.
A hard fatty substance which is usu. obtained by rendering the suet of sheep or cattle, contains stearin, palmitin, and olein, and is used for making candles and soap, dressing leather, etc. ME.
b. The fat or adipose tissue of an animal, esp. that which yields the above suet. Now rare. LME.
Any of various greases or greasy substances obtained from plants, minerals, etc. Now rare. M18.
mineral tallow = HATCHETTITE. vegetable tallow a vegetable fat used as tallow.
In full tallow candle. A candle made of tallow. E19.
Comb.: tallow candle: see sense 3 above; tallow-catch (rare, Shakes.) a very fat person; tallow-chandler a maker or seller of tallow candles; tallow-chandlery the business or workplace of a tallow-chandler; tallow-cut adjective = tallow-topped below; tallow-dip a candle made by dipping a piece of string in melted tallow; tallow-drop a style of cutting precious stones so that at least one side is made smooth and convex (freq. attrib.); tallow-face (chiefly derog.) (a) (now rare) a pale, yellowish-white face; (b) (rare, Shakes.) a person with such a face; tallow-faced adjective (of a person) having a pale, yellowish-white face; tallow-nut the mountain plum, Ximenia americana, whose fruit has an oily seed; tallow shrub the wax myrtle or bayberry, Myrica cerifera; tallow-top a precious stone cut in tallow-drop Fashion; tallow-topped adjective (of a precious stone) cut in tallow-drop Fashion; tallow-tree any of several trees yielding substances resembling tallow; spec. (a) (more fully Chinese tallow-tree) a Chinese tree of the spurge family, Sapium sebiferum, cultivated for the fatty covering of its seeds; (b) a W. African tree, Pentadesma butyracea (family Guttiferae), whose seeds yield an edible fat; tallow-wood a large Australian eucalyptus, Eucalyptus microcorys, which yields a very hard greasy wood.
b. verb.
a. verb trans. Smear or grease (formerly esp. the bottom of a ship) with tallow. LME.
b. verb intrans. Of (the bottom of) a ship: be greased with tallow. M17-E18.
verb intrans. Of a cow etc.: form, produce, or yield tallow. E18.
b. verb trans. Cause (a cow etc.) to form or produce tallow; fatten. M18.
tallowed adjective (a) that has been tallowed; (b) (of a cow etc.) producing or containing much tallow: LME.
tallower noun (a) rare an animal which produces tallow; (b) a tallow-chandler: E19.
tallowish adjective of the Nature of or resembling tallow M16.