Word Meanings - TALLOWER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
An animal which produces tallow.
Related words: (words related to TALLOWER)
- ANIMALIZATION
1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen. - ANIMALCULISM
The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules. - ANIMALITY
Animal existence or nature. Locke. - TALLOW-FACED
Having a sickly complexion; pale. Burton. - ANIMALLY
Physically. G. Eliot. - ANIMALNESS
Animality. - TALLOWY
Of the nature of tallow; resembling tallow; greasy. - ANIMALCULIST
1. One versed in the knowledge of animalcules. Keith. 2. A believer in the theory of animalculism. - ANIMAL
1. An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - TALLOWISH
Having the qualities of tallow. - ANIMALCULE
An animal, invisible, or nearly so, to the naked eye. See Infusoria. Note: Many of the so-called animalcules have been shown to be plants, having locomotive powers something like those of animals. Among these are Volvox, the Desmidiacæ, and the - WHICH
the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who. - ANIMALCULAR; ANIMALCULINE
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, animalcules. "Animalcular life." Tyndall. - ANIMALISH
Like an animal. - TALLOW-FACE
One who has a sickly, pale complexion. Shak. - ANIMALISM
The state, activity, or enjoyment of animals; mere animal life without intellectual or moral qualities; sensuality. - TALLOW
Dan. and Sw. talg, Icel. tolgr, tolg, tolk; and perhaps to Goth. 1. The suet or fat of animals of the sheep and ox kinds, separated from membranous and fibrous matter by melting. Note: The solid consistency of tallow is due to the large amount - TALLOWER
An animal which produces tallow. - ANIMALCULUM
An animalcule. Note: Animalculæ, as if from a Latin singular animalcula, is a barbarism. - BELL ANIMALCULE
An infusorian of the family Vorticellidæ, common in fresh-water ponds.