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A shell or cup of pastry filled with custard, whipped cream, crushed macaroons, etc.

Sweet to the taste; luscious. [Obs.] She tempers dulcet creams. Milton.

or globular, and eight or ten inches long. It has a hard prickly rind, containing a soft, cream-colored pulp, of a most delicious flavor and a very offensive odor. The seeds are roasted and eaten like chestnuts.

A kind of frosted cake, containing flavored cream.

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

with a fatty "filling," such as oleomargarine or lard, to replace the fat removed in the cream.

To take the cream from; to skim. [Prov. Eng.] Johnson.

loating island, a dish for dessert, consisting of custard with floating masses of whipped cream or white of eggs. -- Floating kidney. (Med.) See Wandering kidney, under Wandering. -- Floating light, a light shown at the masthead of a vessel moored over sunken rocks, shoals, etc., to warn mariners of danger; a light-…

A compound of gooseberries scalded and crushed, with cream; -- commonly called gooseberry fool.

A species of pastry, containing cream and almonds.

ols or freezes, as a refrigerator, or the tub and can used in the process of freezing ice cream.

An instrument for ascertaining the quality of milk (i.e., its richness in cream) by determining its specific gravity; a lactometer.

n the eyes; -- called also sidewinder. -- Horned ray (Zoöl.), the sea devil. -- Horned screamer (Zoöl.), the kamichi. -- Horned snake (Zoöl.), the cerastes. -- Horned toad (Zoöl.), any lizard of the genus Phrynosoma, of which nine or ten species are known. These lizards have several hornlike spines on the head, and…

Water, cream, custard, etc., sweetened, flavored, and artificially frozen.

Covered with something resembling ice, as sugar icing; frosted; as, iced cake. Iced cream. Same as Ice cream, under Ice.

A cream cheese. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.

is related in anatomical characters to the ducks and geese (Anseres). Called also horned screamer. The name is sometimes applied also to the chaja. See Chaja, and Screamer.

density of milk, and thus discovering whether it has been mixed with water or some of the cream has been removed.

An instrument for estimating the amount of cream contained in milk by ascertaining its relative opacity.

es or water marks, as if ribbed, from parallel wires in the mold. It is called blue laid, cream laid, etc., according to its color.