a. Also Sc. taughy. [f. TALLOW sb. + -Y.]

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  1.  Having the nature or properties of tallow; sebaceous.

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c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 486/1. Talwy, ceposus.

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1530.  Palsgr., 327/1. Talowye, grasseux.

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1594.  T. B., La Primaud. Fr. Acad., II. 112. Oyle, or some other tallowy and moyst matter.

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1771.  Smollett, Humph. Cl., 8 June. The tallowey rancid mass called butter.

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1904.  Farrer, Garden Asia, 130. The tallowy noisomeness of the temple smells.

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  b.  Smeared with tallow; greasy.

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1867.  N. Macleod, Starling, xxiv. I assure you he has a taughy fleece to scoor in this parish!

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  2.  Resembling tallow in color or complexion.

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1832.  [implied in TALLOWINESS].

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1847.  Le Fanu, T. O’Brien, 170 A tallowy sensual face.

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1883.  Stevenson, Treas. Isl., I. ii. He was a pale, tallowy creature.

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1899.  Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VIII. 677. The integument became dense, tallowy in colour and otherwise changed.

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  3.  Of a beast: Abounding in tallow, fat.

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1495.  Trevisa’s Barth. De P. R., IX. xix. (W. de W.), 357. In Nouembre beestes wexen fatte and talowy and namely swyne.

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1818.  Blackw. Mag., III. 528. The bullock … lays himself down, with a lengthening groan, once more into his tallowy laziness.

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