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Webster 1913 Edition

Cream

Cream

(krēm)
,
Noun.
[F.
crême
, perh. fr. LL.
crema
cream of milk; cf. L.
cremor
thick juice or broth, perh. akin to
cremare
to burn.]
1.
The rich, oily, and yellowish part of milk, which, when the milk stands unagitated, rises, and collects on the surface. It is the part of milk from which butter is obtained.
2.
The part of any liquor that rises, and collects on the surface.
[R.]
3.
A delicacy of several kinds prepared for the table from cream, etc., or so as to resemble cream.
4.
A cosmetic; a creamlike medicinal preparation.
In vain she tries her paste and
creams
,
To smooth her skin or hide its seams.
Goldsmith.
5.
The best or choicest part of a thing; the quintessence;
as, the
cream
of a jest or story; the
cream
of a collection of books or pictures
.
Welcome, O flower and
cream
of knights errant.
Shelton.
Bavarian cream
,
a preparation of gelatin, cream, sugar, and eggs, whipped; – to be eaten cold.
–
Cold cream
,
an ointment made of white wax, almond oil, rose water, and borax, and used as a salve for the hands and lips.
–
Cream cheese
,
a kind of cheese made from curd from which the cream has not been taken off, or to which cream has been added.
–
Cream gauge
,
an instrument to test milk, being usually a graduated glass tube in which the milk is placed for the cream to rise.
–
Cream nut
,
the Brazil nut.
–
Cream of lime
.
(a)
A scum of calcium carbonate which forms on a solution of milk of lime from the carbon dioxide of the air.
(b)
A thick creamy emulsion of lime in water.
–
Cream of tartar
(Chem.)
,
purified tartar or argol; so called because of the crust of crystals which forms on the surface of the liquor in the process of purification by recrystallization. It is a white crystalline substance, with a gritty acid taste, and is used very largely as an ingredient of baking powders; – called also
potassium bitartrate
,
acid potassium tartrate
, etc.

Cream

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Creamed
(kr?md)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Creaming
.]
1.
To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.
2.
To take off the best or choicest part of.
3.
To furnish with, or as with, cream.
Creaming
the fragrant cups.
Mrs. Whitney.
To cream butter
(Cooking)
,
to rub, stir, or beat, butter till it is of a light creamy consistency.

Cream

,
Verb.
I.
To form or become covered with cream; to become thick like cream; to assume the appearance of cream; hence, to grow stiff or formal; to mantle.
There are a sort of men whose visages
Do
cream
and mantle like a standing pool.
Shakespeare

Webster 1828 Edition

Cream

CREAM

,
Noun.
[L., G.]
1.
In a general sense, any part of a liquor that separates from the rest, rises and collects on the surface. More particularly, the oily part of milk, which, when the milk stands unagitated in a cool place, rises and forms a scum on the surface, as it is specifically lighter than the other part of the liquor. This by agitation forms butter.
2.
The best part of a thing; as the cream of a jest or story.
Cream of lime, the scum of lime water; or that part of lime which, after being dissolved in its caustic state, separates from the water int he mild state of chalk or limestone.
Cream of tartar, the scum of a boiling solution of tartar.
The purified and crystalized supertartrate of potash.

CREAM

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To skim; to take off cream by skimming.
2.
To take off the quintessence or best part of a thing.

CREAM

,
Verb.
I.
1.
To gather cream; to flower or mantle.
2.
To grow stiff, or formal.

Definition 2024

cream

cream

See also: créam and creăm

English

Alternative forms

  • creme (14th century onwards)
  • creyme (14th-15th centuries)

Noun

cream ‎(plural creams)

  1. The butterfat/milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
    Take 100 ml of cream and 50 grams of sugar …‎
    1. (standard of identity, US) The liquid separated from milk, possibly with certain other milk products added, and with at least eighteen percent of it milkfat.
    2. (standard of identity, Britain) The liquid separated from milk containing at least 18 percent milkfat (48% for double cream).
  2. A yellowish white colour; the colour of cream.
    cream colour:    
  3. (informal) Frosting, custard, creamer, or another substance similar to the oily part of milk or to whipped cream.
    • 2004, Joey Green, Joey Green's Incredible Country Store, Rodale, ISBN 1579548482, page 267:
      Originally the cream filling in Oreo cookies was made with pork lard.
  4. (figuratively) The best part of something.
    the cream of the crop;  the cream of a collection of books or pictures‎
    • Thomas Shelton (fl.1612-1620)
      Welcome, O flower and cream of knights errant.
  5. (medicine) A viscous aqueous oil/fat emulsion with a medicament added, used to apply that medicament to the skin. (compare with ointment)
    You look really sunburnt; you should apply some cream.‎
    • Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774)
      In vain she tries her paste and creams, / To smooth her skin or hide its seams.
  6. (vulgar, slang) Semen.
    • 2001, Darwin Porter, Hollywood’s Silent Closet: The Lusty Saga of America’s First Star F*#%er!![sic] (novel), Blood Moon Productions, Ltd., ISBN 0-9668030-2-7, page 155,
      He rode me for ten—or was it fifteen?—minutes before one final fuckthrust that filled me completely with his cream.
    • 2003, Dominique Adair, “Two Days, Three Nights” in Tied with a Bow, Ellora’s Cave Publishing, ISBN 1843607433, page 74,
      He tucked his cock into his pants before rubbing his cream into her breasts in slow, teasing strokes.
    • 2004, Art Wiederhold, Wild Flowers, iUniverse, ISBN 0595317898, page 158,
      When he did come, he spurted his cream all over the front of Rosalee’s T-shirt and neck.
  7. (obsolete) The chrism or consecrated oil used in anointing ceremonies.
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d’Arthur, Book V:
      there shall never harlot have happe, by the helpe of Oure Lord, to kylle a crowned Kynge that with Creyme is anoynted.

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Adjective

cream ‎(not comparable)

  1. Cream-coloured; having a yellowish white colour.

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Verb

cream ‎(third-person singular simple present creams, present participle creaming, simple past and past participle creamed)

  1. To puree, to blend with a liquifying process.
    Cream the vegetables with the olive oil, flour, salt and water mixture.
  2. To turn a yellowish white colour; to give something the color of cream.
  3. (slang) To obliterate, to defeat decisively.
    We creamed the opposing team!
  4. (intransitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate (used of either gender).
  5. (transitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate in (clothing).
  6. (transitive, cooking) To rub, stir, or beat (butter) into a light creamy consistency.
  7. (transitive) To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.
  8. (transitive, figuratively) To take off the best or choicest part of.
  9. (transitive) To furnish with, or as if with, cream.
    • Mrs. Whitney
      Creaming the fragrant cups.

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Colors in English · colors, colours (layout · text)
     red      green      yellow      cream      white
     crimson      magenta      teal      lime      pink
     indigo      blue      orange      gray, grey      violet
     black      purple      brown      azure, sky blue      cyan

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [kreˈam]

Verb

cream

  1. first-person singular imperfect of crea
  2. first-person plural imperfect of crea

Etymology

From Middle English creime, creme, from Old French creme, cresme, blend of Late Latin chrisma ‎(“ointment”) (from Ancient Greek χρῖσμα ‎(khrîsma, “unguent”)), and Late Latin crāmum ‎(“skim”), from Gaulish *crama (compare Welsh cramen ‎(“scab, skin”), Breton crammen), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krama- (compare Middle Irish screm ‎(“surface, skin”), Dutch schram ‎(“abrasion”), Lithuanian kramas ‎(“scurf”)). Displaced native Old English rēam ‎(“cream”) (> modern ream). Figurative sense of "most excellent element or part" appears from 1581. Verb meaning "to beat, thrash, wreck" is 1929, U.S. colloquial. The U.S. standard of identity is from 21 CFR 131.3(a).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɹiːm/
  • Rhymes: -iːm

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