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Definition of Bayberry tallow
1. Noun. A fragrant green wax obtained from the wax myrtle and used in making candles.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bayberry Tallow
Literary usage of Bayberry tallow
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practical physiological chemistry: A Book Designed for Use in Courses in by Philip Bovier Hawk (1916)
"Add about 10 grams of bayberry tallow and boil, ... This 1 bayberry tallow is
derived from the fatty covering of the berries ..."
2. Plant Names, Scientific and Popular, Including in the Case of Each Plant the by Albert Brown Lyons (1900)
"Fruit source of American vegetable wax or tallow ^myrtle war, bayberry tallow),
which is said to have astringent and mildly narcotic properties. c ..."
3. Practical Microscopy: A Course of Normal Histology for Students and by Maurice Norton Miller (1887)
"bayberry tallow is found in commerce in various grades. The best is white, clean,
and of a consistency about equal to that of hard mutton tallow. ..."
4. The Microtomist's Vade-mecum: A Handbook of the Methods of Microscopic Anatomy by Arthur Bolles Lee (1893)
"bayberry tallow (Myrtle Wax, Vegetable "Wax, Japan Wax). ... bayberry tallow has
the, for some objects, valuable qualityof working with alcohol as a solvent ..."
5. The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette (1838)
"... with a composition of common tallow, bayberry tallow, and beeswax, in the
following proportions, viz. two pounds of common tallow to one pound of ..."
6. An Introduction to the Study of the Compounds of Carbon, Or, Organic Chemistry by Ira Remsen (1922)
"For example, it is found in butter, human fat, olive oil, cocoanut oil, bayberry
tallow, and in large quantity in palm oil, whence its name. ..."
7. The Shrubs of Northeastern America by Charles Stedman Newhall (1893)
"The wax of the gathered berries, when removed by soaking in boiling water, forms
the " bayberry tallow " of commerce. " The production of myrica wax, ..."
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