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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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17 words match “DAIRY”

DAIRY n. 3 definitions
nversion into butter and cheese. Grounds were turned much in England either to feeding or dairy; and this advanced the trade of English butter. Temple.
DAIRYING n.
The business of conducting a dairy.
DAIRYMAID n.
A female servant whose business is the care of the dairy.
DAIRYMAN n.
A man who keeps or takes care of a dairy.
DAIRYWOMAN n.
A woman who attends to a dairy.
ABERRATION n.
lled annual aberration, when the observer's motion is that of the earth in its orbit, and dairy or diurnal aberration, when of the earth on its axis; amounting when greatest, in the former case, to 20.4'', and in the latter, to 0.3''. Planetary aberration is that due to the motion of light and the motion of the planet…
DAYMAID n.
A dairymaid. [Obs.]
DAYWOMAN n.
A dairymaid. [Obs.]
DEY n.
A servant who has charge of the dairy; a dairymaid. [Obs.] Chaucer.
LACTARY n.
a dairyhouse. [R.]
MILK n. 2 definitions
ffecting certain kinds of farm stock (esp. cows), and persons who make use of the meat or dairy products of infected cattle. Its chief symptoms in man are uncontrollable vomiting, obstinate constipation, pain, and muscular tremors. Its origin in cattle has been variously ascribed to the presence of certain plants in th…
MILK SICKNESS n.
tes, and affecting certain kinds of farm stock (esp. cows), and persons using the meat or dairy products of infected cattle. Its chief symptoms in man are uncontrollable vomiting, obstinate constipation, pain, and muscular tremors. Its origin in cattle has been variously ascribed to the presence of certain plants in th…
MILKMAID n.
A woman who milks cows or is employed in the dairy.
SWEATING n.
ly from horses; a horse scraper. -- 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…
TYROTOXICON n.
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.
VACCARY n.
A cow house, dairy house, or cow pasture. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Wright.
VACHERY n.
A dairy. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Prompt. Parv.