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Webster 1913 Edition
Cheese
1.
The curd of milk, coagulated usually with rennet, separated from the whey, and pressed into a solid mass in a hoop or mold.
2.
A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the form of a cheese.
3.
The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of the dwarf mallow (
Malva rotundifolia
). [Colloq.]
4.
A low courtesy; – so called on account of the cheese form assumed by a woman’s dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration.
De Quincey.
Thackeray.
Cheese cake
, a cake made of or filled with, a composition of soft curds, sugar, and butter.
Prior
. – Cheese fly
(Zool.)
, a black dipterous insect (
– Piophila casei
) of which the larvæ or maggots, called skippers or hoppers, live in cheese. Cheese mite
(Zool.)
, a minute mite (
– Tryoglyhus siro
) in cheese and other articles of food. Cheese press
, a press used in making cheese, to separate the whey from the curd, and to press the curd into a mold.
– Cheese rennet
(Bot.)
, a plant of the Madder family (
– Golium verum
, or yellow bedstraw
), sometimes used to coagulate milk. The roots are used as a substitute for madder. Cheese vat
, a vat or tub in which the curd is formed and cut or broken, in cheese making.
Webster 1828 Edition
Cheese
CHEESE
, n.1.
The curd of milk, coagulated by rennet, separated from the serum or whey, and pressed in a vat, hoop or mold.2.
A mass of pumice or ground apples placed on a press.