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bbon grass, a striped leaved form of Reed canary grass. Rye grass, pasture, hay. Lolium perenne, var. Seneca grass, fragrant basket work, etc. North. Hierochloa borealis. Sesame grass. Same as Gama grass (above). Sheep's fescue, sheep pasture, native in Northern Europe and Asia. Festuca ovina. Small reed grass, meadow…

ocreative power; inability to copulate, or beget children; also, sometimes, sterility; barrenness.

Want of fecundity or fruitfulness; barrenness; sterility; unproductiveness.

The state or quality of being infertile; unproductiveness; barrenness. The infertility or noxiousness of the soil. Sir M. Hale.

The stomach of a calf, prepared for rennet. Halliwell.

third division, or that between the reticulum, or honeycomb stomach, and the abomasum, or rennet stomach, in the stomach of ruminants; the omasum; the psalterium. So called from the numerous folds in its mucous membrane. See Illust of Ruminant.

The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness; barrenness.

To seize and plunder; to snatch by violence. Dryden. "[Ye] waste all that ye may rape and renne." Chaucer. All they could rap and rend pilfer. Hudibras. -- To rap out, to utter with sudden violence, as an oath. A judge who rapped out a great oath. Addison.

A perennial European grass (Lolium perenne); -- called also rye grass, and red darnel. See Darnel, and Grass. Italian ray, or rye, grass. See Darnel, and Grass.

Rennet. See 3d Reed. [Prov. Eng.]

The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet. [Prov. Eng. or Scot.]

See Renne. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See 2d Rennet. [Obs.] Asses' milk is holden for to be thickest, and therefore they use it instead of renning, to turn milk. Holland.

obs. p. p. of Renne, to run. Chaucer.

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the cream may rise to the surface. (b) To cause it to become curdled as by the action of rennet. See 4 (e). -- To set much, or little, by, to care much, or little, for. -- To set of, to value; to set by. [Obs.] "I set not an haw of his proverbs." Chaucer. -- To set off. (a) To separate from a whole; to assign to a…

A rennet bag. [Prov. Eng.]

The salted stomach of a calf, used in making cheese; a rennet bag. [Prov. Eng.]

The maws, or stomachs, of young calves, used a rennet for curdling milk. [Scot.]

Curd produced from milk by adding acetic acid, after rennet has ceased to cause coagulation. Brande & C.