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of the Convolvulus Scammonia, of a blackish gray color, a nauseous smell like that of old cheese, and a somewhat acrid taste. It is used in medicine as a cathartic.

Gruyère cheese.

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

.] Bessy would either do fieldwork, or attend to the cows, the shippon, or churn, or make cheese. Dickens.

The cheese maggot. See Cheese fly, under Cheese.

or drinking. The milk pan and cream pot so slabbered and tost That butter is wanting and cheese is half lost. Tusser.

A thin, broad piece cut off; as, a slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread.

Cottage cheese. [Local, U. S.]

r. -- Sweating room. (a) A room for sweating persons. (b) (Dairying) A room for sweating cheese and carrying off the superfluous juices. -- Sweating sickness (Med.), a febrile epidemic disease which prevailed in some countries of Europe, but particularly in England, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, character…

That in which, or by which, anything is tasted, as, a dram cup, a cheese taster, or the like.

[Prov. Eng.] Thrusting screw, the screw of a screw press, as for pressing curd in making cheese. [R.]

A seasoned preparation, as of chicken, lobster, cheese, or fish, cooked in a drum-shaped mold; also, a pastry case, usually small, filled with a cooked mixture.

A kitchen utensil for toasting bread, cheese, etc. Toaster oven. an electrical toaster.

a. & n. from Toast, v. Toasting fork, a long-handled fork for toasting bread, cheese, or the like, by the fire.

A small piece; a morsel; a bit. [Obs.] "A trip of cheese." Chaucer.

of proteid matter by various means, -- as by pancreatic digestion, by putrefaction as of cheese, by the action of boiling acids, etc. Chemically, it consists of oxyphenol and amidopropionic acid, and by decomposition yields oxybenzoic acid, or some other benzol derivative. [Written also tyrosine.]

A ptomaine discovered by Vaughan in putrid cheese and other dairy products, and producing symptoms similar to cholera infantum. Chemically, it appears to be related to, or identical with, diazobenzol.

Of the nature or quality of an unguent or ointment; fatty; oily; greasy. "The unctuous cheese." Longfellow.

rces, as a corrosive, mobile, oily liquid, having a strong acid taste, and an odor of old cheese. Active valeric acid, a metameric variety which turns the plane of polarization to the right, although formed by the oxidation of a levorotatory amyl alcohol.

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