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1101 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BUTTER-MILK.1 (Noah Webster)
BUTTER-MILK, n. The milk that remains after the butter is separated from it. Johnson calls this whey; but whey is the thin part of the milk after the curd or cheese is separated. Butter-milk in America is not called whey.
1102 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BUTTERWORT.1 (Noah Webster)
… ; and milk, in which these are steeped, or washed, acquires, in a day or two, consistency, and is an agreeable food, used in the north of Sweden.
1103 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BUTTERY.2 (Noah Webster)
BUTTERY, n. An apartment in a house, where butter, milk, provisions and utensils are kept. In some colleges, a room where liquors, fruit and refreshments are kept for sale to the students.
1104 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CACHINNATION.1 (Noah Webster)
… , usually milk white, some times grayish or yellowish white; opake or slightly translucent at the edges. Its fracture is even, or conchoidal with large cavities …
1105 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CAMEL.2 (Noah Webster)
… . Their milk is his common food. By the camels power of sustaining abstinence rom drink, for many days, and of subsisting on a few coarse shrubs, he is peculiarly …
1106 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CHALCEDONY.1 (Noah Webster)
CHALCEDONY, n. A subspecies of quartz, a mineral called also white agate, resembling milk diluted with water, and more or less clouded or opake, with veins, circles and spots. It is used in jewelry.
1107 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CHANGE.10 (Noah Webster)
8. To become acid or tainted; to turn from a natural state of sweetness and purity; as, the wine is changed; thunder and lightning are said to change milk.
1108 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CHEESE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. The curd of milk, coagulated by rennet, separated from the serum or whey, and pressed in a vat, hoop or mold.
1109 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CHURN.1 (Noah Webster)
CHURN, n. A vessel in which cream or milk is agitated for separating the oily part from the caseous and serous parts, to make butter.
1110 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CLABBER.1 (Noah Webster)
CLABBER, BONNY-CLABBER, n. Milk turned, become thick or inspissated.
1111 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CLOT.3 (Noah Webster)
1. To concrete; to coagulate, as soft or fluid matter into a thick, inspissated mass; as milk or blood clots.
1112 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. COAGULATE.1 (Noah Webster)
… coagulates milk. This word is generally applied to the change of fluids into substances like curd or butter, of a moderate consistence, but not hard or impenetrable …
1113 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. COW.1 (Noah Webster)
COW, n. plu. cows; old plu. kine. The female of the bovine genus of animals; a quadruped with cloven hoofs, whose milk furnishes an abundance of food and profit to the farmer.
1114 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CREAM.2 (Noah Webster)
… of milk, which, when the milk stands unagitated in a cool place, rises and forms a scum on the surface, as it is specifically lighter than the other part of the …
1115 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CROSS-STONE.1 (Noah Webster)
… or milk white, sometimes with a shade of yellow or red.
1116 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CURD.1 (Noah Webster)
CURD, n. [See Crystal .] The coagulated or thickened part of milk, which is formed into cheese, or, in some countries, eaten as common food. The word may sometimes perhaps be used for the coagulated part of any liquor.
1117 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CURDLE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. To coagulate or concrete; to thicken, or change into curd. Milk curdles by a mixture of runnet.
1118 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CURDLE.5 (Noah Webster)
1. To change into curd; to cause to thicken, coagulate, or concrete. Runnet or brandy curdles milk.
1119 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CURDLE.6 (Noah Webster)
At Florence they curdle their milk with artichoke flowers.
1120 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CUSTARD.1 (Noah Webster)
CUSTARD, n. A composition of milk and eggs, sweetened and baked or boiled, forming an agreeable kind of food.