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Tallo(u)n, -oune, -own, v. [Late ME and e.m.E. taloghid p.p. (a1400-50), talluyd p.t. (1463), tallowe (1530); Tallo(u)n n.²] tr.

1. To smear with tallow; to grease (freq., a ship's bottom). 1494 Treas. Acc. I 249.
To a man that dycht the ȝard at the barge mycht be tallonyt 1497 Treas. Acc. I 378.
For twa stane of hardis to calfind the ship … Item, for pyk to hir and to talloune hir 1497 Treas. Acc. I 379.
For haddir to talloune the schippes with 1512 Treas. Acc. IV 458 (see Tallo(u)n n.² (3).).
Tallon 1548 Treas. Acc. IX 198.
For thre stane of Orknay buttar to talloun the Frenche monitioun, extreis and quhelis xxx s.ellipt. a1568 Sempill in Sat. P. xlvi 18.
To calfet hir oft can do non ill, And talloun quhair the flud-mark flowis

2. To furnish with tallow. 1574 Glasgow B. Rec. I 25.
That the pund of candill be sauld for tuelf penneis the pund, and that the samyn be small wickeit and weill tallownit