What is "stearine"

Usage examples of "stearine".

Then, besides the fat, which would insure for a long time a store of stearine and glycerine, there were still the bones, for which a use could doubtless be found, although there were neither umbrellas nor stays used at Granite House.

Until recently these fats, coconut stearine and others, could be ignored by the reputable chocolate makers as the confection produced by their use was inferior to true chocolate both in taste and in keeping properties.

A bottle of ink stood by him, as well as a low, cast-iron candlestick with, incidentally, a stearine candle.

When the dressmakers were done, Tsybukin paid them not in cash but in goods from his shop, and they went away from him sadly, carrying bundles of stearine candles and sardines, which they did not need at all, and when they got out of the village into the fields, they sat down on a knoll and began to cry.

His legs obeyed him rather reluctantly, and he could not hold the candlestick without the stearine dripping on to the carpet.

Quite a large box--though nearly empty now--of stearine candles, six to the pound.

In the bedroom I found a large box that had contained a considerable stock of hard stearine candles, six to the pound, and that was now nearly empty.

However, when looking over the drawers in the bedroom, I came upon a large box that had held a considerable quantity of hard stearine candles.