Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A preparation from beef-suet and lard; a mixture of oleomargarin with lard, refined cottonseed-oil, or other fatty substances, used as a substitute for butter.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A mixture of oleomargarine with lard or other fatty ingredients. It is used as a substitute for butter. See butterine.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun rare a butter substitute usually made of suet or lard

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Examples

  • Forget not Madam Grissel Steevens nor the suine scions of the house of Lambert.

    Ulysses 2003

  • Forget not Madam Grissel Steevens nor the suine scions of the house of Lambert.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

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