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Tallower vs Callower - What's the difference?

tallower | callower |

As a noun tallower

is an animal which produces tallow.

As an adjective callower is

(callow).

tallower

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An animal which produces tallow.
  • * 1813 , Arthur Young, General view of the agriculture of the county of Sussex (page 332)
    • The South Down sheep are not great tallowers , compared with some other sorts; but what they loose in tallow, they make up in a disposition to fatten.
  • A merchant who deals in tallow.
    • (Webster 1913)

    callower

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (callow)

    • callow

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • (obsolete) Bald.
  • Unfledged (of a young bird).
  • * Dryden
    • And in the leafy summit spy'd a nest, / Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed.
  • Immature, lacking in life experience.
    • Those three young men are particularly callow youths.
  • 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)

    • Noun

  • 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.

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