tallowing

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English

Etymology

From tallow +‎ -ing.

Noun

tallowing (uncountable)

  1. The act, or art, of causing animals to produce tallow.
  2. The property in animals of producing tallow.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for tallowing”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)