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Cheese - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Cheese : (noun)
1: a solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk
2: erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary
clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced in United
States [syn: tall mallow, high mallow, cheeseflower,
Malva sylvestris]
(verb)
1: used in the imperative (get away, or stop it); "Cheese it!"
2: wind onto a cheese; "cheese the yarn"
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Cheese : \Cheese\, n. [OE. chese, AS. c[=e]se, fr. L. caseus, LL.
casius. Cf. Casein.]
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 (Zo["o]l.), a black dipterous insect ({Piophila
casei) of which the larv[ae] or maggots, called skippers
or hoppers, live in cheese.
Cheese_mite_(Zo["o]l.),_a_minute_mite_({Tryoglyhus_siro">Cheese mite (Zo["o]l.), 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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Cheese : (A.S. cese). This word occurs three times in the Authorized
Version as the translation of three different Hebrew words: (1.)
1 Sam. 17:18, "ten cheeses;" i.e., ten sections of curd. (2.) 2
Sam. 17:29, "cheese of kine" = perhaps curdled milk of kine. The
Vulgate version reads "fat calves." (3.) Job 10:10, curdled milk
is meant by the word.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Example Usage of Cheese |
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GreenLeaf_UK: Served carrot cake with dairy free cream Cheese filling! |
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