10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TALLOWISH»
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tallowish in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
tallowish and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
An Analytical Dictionary of the English Language in which ...
To TALLow (signifying to grease) TALLOWY and TALLOWISH belong only to
Glossaries. SaBACEOUS (from the Latin sebum, or sevum, suet,) is the modern
adjective; and, from the same origin, an acid which chemists have extracted, ...
David BOOTH (Author of the Analytical Dictionary.), 1835
2
Notes on Africa: particularly those parts which are situated ...
The fat of it is not so tallowish as European mutton.' The poorer sort of persons,
and all the slaves, use it instead of butter, from which, when melted", it is not
easily distinguished. The most remark-' able thing in the Cape sheep is the size
of ...
G. A. Robertson, Neele & Son, 1819
3
The Mexican War, by an English Soldier: Comprising Incidents ...
... and a complexion tallowish and singularly disagreeable. I could scarcely help
fancying sometimes, when I have suddenly met one of these hooded monks, that
there lurked a twinkle of the unholy fire from that "light of other days," the auto ...
4
A New and Improved Standard French and English and English ...
TALLOWISH tal'lolsh, adj.de la nature du suif. TALLOWY tal'loe, adj. de suif;
graisseux. TALLY tal'le, va. mettre a la taille ; ajuster. adapter. TALLY, i. taille (
petit baton),/ [com.] temperament, m. TALLY- MAN, a. personne qui marque la
taille, /.
Alexander G. Collot, 1856
His face has a tallowish-white hue, and presents that distressing expression
which has been named by the French, “ Face grippée." Pulse feeble and quick;
tongue clean and paid; the patient feels very weak and faint towards evening,
and has ...
6
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
The smell was decidedly tallowish, with the strong smell I have described as
adipocire smell, and with the smell of earth worms; all of these odours were plain,
and suggested themselves at once to the mind. The fat was hard, and resembled
...
7
Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, in Miniature: ...
... a loquacious fellow Talking, a. the act or power of speaking Tall, a. high in
stature, lofty ; Iwsty Tallow, t. the fat of heasts meited, suet Tallow chandier, t. one
who makes and sells tallow candies Tallowish, a. haeing the nature of tallow
Tally, ...
8
Autobiography of an English Soldier
Many of them are Mexicans of the lower class, that is half Indian caste, and these
are generally of most forbidding aspect, having the oblique, sinister eye, and "
forehead villanous low," of the Indian, and a complexion tallowish and singularly
...
9
Languages of Science in the Eighteenth Century
Some examples from Spöring (medicine) and Thunberg (entomology), who
coined new words to describe what they saw (with literal translations): svetthål '
sweat-hole' honungsdeg 'honey dough' talgaktig 'tallowish' löpfötter 'running-feet'
...
Britt-Louise Gunnarsson, 2011
10
A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean: Undertaken, by the Command of ...
And there seems to be foundation for it. For, admitting that European sheep were
* " The most remarkable thing in the Cape sheep, is the length and thickness of
their tails, which weigh from sifteen to twenty pounds. The fat is not so tallowish ...
James Cook, Charles Clerke, James King, 1784
