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To change into curd; to coagulate; as, rennet causes milk to curdle. Thomson.

Destitute of curd.

Coagulated sour milk; loppered milk; curdled milk; -- sometimes called simply clabber. B. Jonson.

Milk curdled so as to become thick.

curdlike or semisolid state, not by evaporation but by some kind of chemical reaction; to curdle; as, rennet coagulates milk; heat coagulates the white of an egg.

Changed into, or contained in, a coagulum or a curdlike mass; curdled. Coagulated proteid (Physiol. Chem.), one of a class of bodies formed in the coagulation of a albuminous substance by heat, acids, or other agents.

To curdle. [Obs.] See how thy blood cruddles at this. Bea

To cause to coagulate or thicken; to cause to congeal; to curdle. Does it curd thy blood To say I am thy mother Shak.

To curdle, as milk. [Prov. Eng.]

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

A beverage composed of hot milk curdled by some strong infusion, as by wine, etc., -- much in favor formerly. "I have drugged their posset." Shak.

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

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

To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle, etc.: as, to turn cider or wine; electricity turns milk quickly.

Curdled milk. [India]

Not cruddled, or curdled. [Obs.] Her breast like to a bowl of cream uncrudded. Spenser.

To curdle, as milk. [Scot.]