Tallow vs Callow - What's the difference?
tallow | callow |
a hard animal fat obtained from suet etc.; used to make candles, soap and lubricants
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To grease or smear with tallow.
To cause to have a large quantity of tallow; to fatten.
(obsolete) Bald.
Unfledged (of a young bird).
* Dryden
Immature, lacking in life experience.
Lacking color or firmness (of some kinds of insects or other arthropods, such as spiders, just after ecdysis). Teneral.
Shallow or weak-willed.
Unburnt (of a brick)
A callow young bird.
A callow or teneral phase of an insect or other arthropod, typically shortly after ecdysis, while the skin still is hardening, the colours have not yet become stable, and as a rule, before the animal is able to move effectively.
As nouns the difference between tallow and callow
is that tallow is a hard animal fat obtained from suet etc; used to make candles, soap and lubricants while callow is a callow young bird.As a verb tallow
is to grease or smear with tallow.As an adjective callow is
(obsolete) bald.tallow
English
(wikipedia tallow)Noun
(-)- Nor were the wool prospects much better. The .
Verb
(en verb)- to tallow sheep
callow
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- And in the leafy summit spy'd a nest, / Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed.
- Those three young men are particularly callow youths.