Usually means: Rendered fat from beef, sheep.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word tallow:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. tallow: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tallow: Merriam-Webster
  3. tallow: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tallow: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tallow: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tallow: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tallow, tallow: Wordnik
  8. tallow: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. tallow: Wiktionary
  10. tallow: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tallow: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tallow: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. tallow: Dictionary.com
  14. tallow: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Tallow (disambiguation), Tallow: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Tallow: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. tallow: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. tallow: Rhymezone
  19. Tallow: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. tallow: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. tallow: FreeDictionary.org
  22. tallow: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. tallow: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tallow: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. tallow: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. tallow: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tallow: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary for the Modern Soap Maker (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  3. Sandahl, Middle English Sea Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See tallowed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A hard animal fat obtained from suet, etc.; used in cooking as well as to make candles, soap and lubricants.
verb:  To grease or smear with tallow.
verb:  To cause to have a large quantity of tallow; to fatten.

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