Definition of curd

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Curd (n.) The coagulated or thickened part of milk, as distinguished from the whey, or watery part. It is eaten as food, especially when made into cheese..

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Cheese :: Cheese (n.) The curd of milk, coagulated usually with rennet, separated from the whey, and pressed into a solid mass in a hoop or mold..
Tyre :: Tyre () Curdled milk.
Bonnyclabber :: Bonnyclabber (n.) Coagulated sour milk; loppered milk; curdled milk; -- sometimes called simply clabber.
Curdling :: Curdling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Curdl.
Earn :: Earn (v. i.) To curdle, as milk..
Parigenin :: Parigenin (n.) A curdy white substance, obtained by the decomposition of parillin..
Casein :: Casein (n.) A proteid substance present in both the animal and the vegetable kingdom. In the animal kingdom it is chiefly found in milk, and constitutes the main part of the curd separated by rennet; in the vegetable kingdom it is found more or less abundantly in the seeds of leguminous plants. Its reactions resemble those of alkali albumin..
Yearnings :: Yearnings (n. pl.) The maws, or stomachs, of young calves, used as a rennet for curdling milk..
Curdle :: Curdle (v. t.) To congeal or thicken.
Hoop :: Hoop (n.) A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop, as the cylinder (cheese hoop) in which the curd is pressed in making cheese..
Atheroma :: Atheroma (n.) An encysted tumor containing curdy matter.
Set :: Set (v. t.) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle; as, to set milk for cheese..
Quail :: Quail (v. i.) To curdle; to coagulate, as milk..
Curding :: Curding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cur.
Coagulation :: Coagulation (n.) The change from a liquid to a thickened, curdlike, insoluble state, not by evaporation, but by some kind of chemical reaction; as, the spontaneous coagulation of freshly drawn blood; the coagulation of milk by rennet, or acid, and the coagulation of egg albumin by heat. Coagulation is generally the change of an albuminous body into an insoluble modification..
Sillabub :: Sillabub (n.) A dish made by mixing wine or cider with milk, and thus forming a soft curd; also, sweetened cream, flavored with wine and beaten to a stiff froth..
Curdiness :: Curdiness (n.) The state of being curdy.
Ziega :: Ziega (n.) Curd produced from milk by adding acetic acid, after rennet has ceased to cause coagulation..
Turn :: Turn (v. t.) To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle, etc.: as, to turn cider or wine; electricity turns milk quickly..
Curdle :: Curdle (v. i.) To change into curd; to coagulate; as, rennet causes milk to curdle..
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