Tallow-face

Related Words

• Tallow

  ·vt To grease or smear with tallow. II. Tallow ·vt To cause to have a large quantity of tallow; to ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Face

  ·vi To present a face or front. II. Face ·noun The style or cut of a type or font of type. III. Fa...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Face

  Means simply presence, as when it is recorded that Adam and Eve hid themselves from the "face [R.V.,...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• face

  The edge of a sharp instrument. Also, the word of command to soldiers, marines, and small-arm men, t...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Tallow-faced

  ·adj Having a sickly complexion; pale. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• tallow-wood

  n. another name for one of the Stringy-barks (q.v.), Eucalyptus microcorys,F. v. M., N.O. Myrtaceae...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• White-face

  ·noun A white mark in the forehead of a horse, descending almost to the nose; — called also white-b...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• buck's face

  A cuckold. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• carbuncle face

  A red face, full of pimples. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• face-making

  Begetting children. To face it out; to persist in a falsity. No face but his own: a saying of one wh...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• friday-face

  A dismal countenance. Before, and even long after the Reformation, Friday was a day of abstinence, o...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• frosty face

  One pitted with the small pox. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• hatchet face

  A long thin face. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• mossy face

  The mother of all saints. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• rich face

  or NOSE A red pimpled, face. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• pig-face

  Pig-faces, and Pig's-face,or Pig's-faces. Names given to an indigenous «iceplant,» Mesembryanthemum...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• white-face

  n. a name applied to the Australianbird, Xerophila leucopsis, Gould. Another species isthe Chestnut...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• after-face

  See back of the post. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• face-piece

  A piece of elm tabled on to the knee of the head, in the fore-part, to assist the conversion of the ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Tallow Chandlers' Hall

  On the west side of Dowgate Hill, No.5 (P.O. Directory). In Dowgate Ward. First mention: S. p.232. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• jack nasty face

  A sea term, signifying a common sailor. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• to run one's face

  To make use of one's credit. 'To run one's face for a thing,' is to get it on tick. Any one who can...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• jack nasty-face

  A cook's assistant. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• face of a gun

  The surface of the metal at the extremity of the muzzle. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Melters of Tallow and Lard

  Unctarii-excluded from Chepe 1283 (Cal. L. Bk. A. p. 221). In the Calendar, "unctarii" = "oynters."...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.