Word Finder - offal

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The internal organs of an animal, used as animal food.

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A by-product of the grain milling process, which may include bran, husks, etc.

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A dead body; carrion.

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That which is thrown away as worthless or unfit for use; refuse; rubbish.

We once ate much more offal than we do now.

Other widely used ingredients include truffles, ham, pork, and offal and fresh vegetables are used with reverence.

This great assemblage is always a dangerous centre of infection, and the days of Mina especially, spent under circumstances originally adapted only for a Bedouin fair, with no provisions for proper cleanliness, and with the air full of the smell of putrefying offal and flesh drying in the sun, produce much sickness.

Let sinew bond with bone, gristle with offal blah blah blah blah... that should do it.

If you're feeling feisty, go for the very traditional frito Mallorquin - deep-fried offal and vegetables.

This consisted of animal meat and offal, honey, insects such as witchetty grubs, some marine life plus seasonal vegetation.

Because prohibited offal is handled by knackers and renderers, the processes were also examined in relation to possible occupational hazards from BSE.

Mr Scott stated that MBM from banned offal was still finding its way into animal feed.

The Hunt purchased an incinerator costing in excess of £ 6,000 almost two years ago and also pays for skips to remove the offal.

Our proposed ban on bovine offal for human consumption would not affect these uses, I assume.

These were the recycling of animal waste, biological medicinal products, research, and the use of ruminant offal in baby food.

Known as green offal for cattle and sheep, and black offal for pigs.

The feeding of sheep offal to cattle is believed to be the original cause of BSE.

The article also reported Dr. Grant as saying that infected cattle offal was still being used in pies and meat products.

The Report suggests, however, that manufacturers of baby foods should avoid the use of bovine thymus and offal.

In the meantime it was decided to consult on the basis that the banned offal would include tripe.

The judges, in making their awards at the show held annually in December, at Islington, North London (since 1862), are instructed to decide according to quality of flesh, lightness of offal, age and early maturity, with no restrictions as to feeding, and thus to promote the primary aim of the club in encouraging the selection and breeding of the best and most useful animals for the production of meat, and testing their capabilities in respect of early maturity.

Other offal listed has been included for the sake of consistency with existing regulations specifying offal.

Their filthy habits and disgusting practices of gross promiscuous feeding, even to the extent of eating offal and dead men's flesh, look almost like a direct repudiation of the strict Brahmanical code of ceremonial purity and cleanliness, and of the rules regulating the matter and manner of eating and drinking; and they certainly make them objects of loathing and terror wherever they are seen.

Turnip and beet greens, offal, feet and heads were given to the slaves for use as food.

Its range towards the pole seems to be only bounded by open water, and it is the constant attendant upon all who are employed in the whale and seal fisheries, showing the greatest boldness in approaching boats and ships, and feeding on the offal obtained from them.

There is much discrepancy as to the ordinary food of the lammergeyer, some observers maintaining that it lives almost entirely on carrion, offal and even ordure; but there is no question of its frequently taking living prey, and it is reasonable to suppose that this bird, like so many others, is not everywhere uniform in its habits.

On one side Prometheus arranged the best parts of the ox covered with offal, on the other the bones covered with fat, as the meat was covered in Homeric sacrifices.

The offal, which is quite as valuable as the flour itself, was thus retained abroad instead of being utilized for stock-feeding purposes in the United Kingdom.