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ange; current value or rate paid or demanded in market or in barter; cost. "Buy wine and milk without money and without price." Isa. lv. 1. We can afford no more at such a price. Shak.

of religion are merely probable; I have before asserted them to be morally certain. Bp. Wilkins.

the sassafras, wild cherry, and other trees, and suspends its cocoon from a branch by a silken band.

taining, as a rule, a small amount of sulphur; an albuminoid, as blood fibrin, casein of milk, etc. Proteids are present in nearly all animal fluids and make up the greater part of animal tissues and organs. They are also important constituents of vegetable tissues. See 2d Note under Food. -- Pro"te*id, a.…

moderately hard consistence, variously made, but often a compound of flour or meal, with milk and eggs, etc. And solid pudding against empty praise. Pope.

A kind of checked cotton or silk handkerchief.

A beverage composed of wine or distilled liquor, water (or milk), sugar, and the juice of lemon, with spice or mint; -- specifically named from the kind of spirit used; as rum punch, claret punch, champagne punch, etc. Milk punch, a sort of punch made with spirit, milk, sugar, spice, etc. -- Punch bowl, a large bowl i…

Same as Pyxis. Pyx cloth (R. C. Ch., a veil of silk or lace covering the pyx. Trial of the pyx, the annual testing, in the English mint, of the standard of gold and silver coins. Encyc. Brit.

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

A kind of clerical scarf fitted to a collar; as, a black silk rabat.

A beverage made of wine, ale (or milk), sugar, etc. [Obs.] Blount.

An inferior kind of silk, or mixture of silk and worsted. [Obs.] Donne.

Any plant of the genus Astragalus. See Milk vetch.

Not spun or twisted; as, raw silk or cotton.

ble certainty, I mean that which doth not admit of any reasonable cause of doubting. Bp. Wilkins. Men have no right to what is not reasonable. Burke.

A kind of milkweed (Asclepias Curassavica) with red flowers. It is used in medicine.

f, or other young ruminant; also, an infusion or preparation of it, used for coagulating milk. [Written also runnet.] Cheese rennet. (Bot.) See under Cheese. -- Rennet ferment (Physiol. Chem.), a ferment, present in rennet and in variable quantity in the gastric juice of most animals, which has the power of curdling m…

Provided or treated with rennet. [R.] "Pressed milk renneted." Chapman.

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

A fabric made of silk or wool, or of silk and wool, and having a transversely corded or ribbed surface.