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Sallow vs. Tallow — What's the Difference?

Sallow vs. Tallow — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Sallow and Tallow

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Sallow

Of a sickly yellowish hue or complexion.

Tallow

Tallow is a rendered form of beef or mutton fat, primarily made up of triglycerides. It is solid at room temperature.

Sallow

To make sallow.

Tallow

Hard fat obtained from parts of the bodies of cattle or sheep, used in foodstuffs or to make leather dressing, soap, and lubricants, and formerly used to make candles.

Sallow

Any of several low-growing or shrubby European willows, especially Salix caprea or S. cinerea, having large catkins that appear early in the spring and formerly used as a source of charcoal and tannin.
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Tallow

Any of various similar fats, such as those obtained from plants.

Sallow

(of skin) Yellowish.

Tallow

To smear or cover with tallow.

Sallow

Of a sickly pale colour.

Tallow

To fatten (animals) in order to obtain tallow.

Sallow

(Ireland) Of a tan colour, associated with people from southern Europe or East Asia.

Tallow

A hard animal fat obtained from suet, etc.; used in cooking as well as to make candles, soap and lubricants.

Sallow

(of a person) Having skin (especially on the face) of a sickly pale colour.

Tallow

To grease or smear with tallow.

Sallow

(of objects or dim light) Having a similar pale, yellowish colour.

Tallow

To cause to have a large quantity of tallow; to fatten.
To tallow sheep

Sallow

Foul; murky; sickly.

Tallow

The suet or fat of animals of the sheep and ox kinds, separated from membranous and fibrous matter by melting.

Sallow

(intransitive) To become sallow.

Tallow

The fat of some other animals, or the fat obtained from certain plants, or from other sources, resembling the fat of animals of the sheep and ox kinds.

Sallow

(transitive) To cause (someone or something) to become sallow.

Tallow

To grease or smear with tallow.

Sallow

A European willow, Salix caprea, that has broad leaves, large catkins and tough wood.

Tallow

To cause to have a large quantity of tallow; to fatten; as, tallow sheep.

Sallow

A willow twig or branch.

Tallow

Obtained from suet and used in making soap, candles and lubricants

Sallow

The willow; willow twigs.
And bend the pliant sallow to a shield.
The sallow knows the basketmaker's thumb.

Sallow

A name given to certain species of willow, especially those which do not have flexible shoots, as Salix caprea, S. cinerea, etc.

Sallow

Having a yellowish color; of a pale, sickly color, tinged with yellow; as, a sallow skin.

Sallow

To tinge with sallowness.
July breathes hot, sallows the crispy fields.

Sallow

Any of several Old World shrubby broad-leaved willows having large catkins; some are important sources for tanbark and charcoal

Sallow

Cause to become sallow;
The illness has sallowed her face

Sallow

Unhealthy looking

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