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A delicacy of several kinds prepared for the table from cream, etc., or so as to resemble cream.

See under Laid.

Of the color of cream; light yellow. "Cream-colored horses." Hazlitt.

White or pale, as the effect of fear, or as the natural complexion. Thou cream-faced loon. Shak.

A plant of Sierra Leone which yields a wholesome, creamy juice.

A wooden knife with a long thin blade, used in handling cream or ice cream.

As white as cream.

A kind of cake filled with custard made of cream, eggs, etc.

A place where butter and cheese are made, or where milk and cream are put up in cans for market.

The quality of being creamy.

Full of, or containing, cream; resembling cream, in nature, appearance, or taste; creamlike; unctuous. "Creamy bowis." Collins. "Lines of creamy spray." Tennyson. "Your creamy words but cozen." Beau & Fl.

An ice or ice cream containing eggs as well as cream.

r shrill, loud cry, as in fright or extreme pain; to shriek; to screech. I heard the owl scream and the crickets cry. Shak. And scream thyself as none e'er screamed before. Pope.

orned. They are easily tamed, and then serve as guardians for other poultry. The crested screamers, or chajas, belong to the genus Chauna. The horned screamer, or kamichi, is Palamedea cornuta.

Uttering screams; shrieking.

itata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and A. Gregorii, the sour gourd or cream-of-tartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and filled with pleasantly acid pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark is used b…

A kind of cold cream prepared from almonds, for chapped hands, etc.

A South American aquatic bird; the horned screamer or kamichi (Palamedea cornuta). See Kamichi.

Crude tartar; an acidulous salt from which cream of tartar is prepared. It exists in the juice of grapes, and is deposited from wines on the sides of the casks. Ure.

A native or an inhabitant of Bavaria. Bavarian cream. See under Cream.