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sation like that caused by insects creeping on the skin. [Colloq.] One's whole blood grew curdling and creepy. R. Browning.

See Curd. [Obs.]

To curdle. [Obs.] See how thy blood cruddles at this. Bea

To curdle, as milk. [Prov. Eng.]

To curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or "feathers;" as, the cream feathers [Colloq.]

A mixture of buttermilk and boiling whey; curds. [prov. Eng.] Wright.

ions which books hold forth and pretend to teach." Locke. -- To held in, to restrain; to curd. -- To hold in hand, to toy with; to keep in expectation; to have in one's power. [Obs.] O, fie! to receive favors, return falsehoods, And hold a lady in hand. Beaw. & Fl. --To hold in play, to keep under control; to dally w…

; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop, as the cylinder (cheese hoop) in which the curd is pressed in making cheese.

A curdy white substance, obtained by the decomposition of parillin.

A beverage composed of hot milk curdled by some strong infusion, as by wine, etc., -- much in favor formerly. "I have drugged their posset." Shak.

To curdle; to coagulate, as milk. [Obs.] Holland.

net and in variable quantity in the gastric juice of most animals, which has the power of curdling milk. The ferment presumably acts by changing the casein of milk from a soluble to an insoluble form. -- Rennet stomach (Anat.), the fourth stomach, or abomasum, of ruminants.

To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle; as, to set milk for cheese.

A dish made by mixing wine or cider with milk, and thus forming a soft curd; also, sweetened cream, flavored with wine and beaten to a stiff froth. [Written also syllabub.]

soothest shepherd that ever piped on plains. Milton. With jellies soother than the creamy curd. Keats.

The act of squeezing curd with the hand, to expel the whey. (b) pl.

To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle, etc.: as, to turn cider or wine; electricity turns milk quickly.

Curdled milk. [India]

Not cruddled, or curdled. [Obs.] Her breast like to a bowl of cream uncrudded. Spenser.

ble part, esp. in the process of making cheese. In this process, the thick part is called curd, and the thin part whey.