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1101 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 …
1102 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.
1103 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.
1104 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.
1105 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.
1106 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CLABBER.1 (Noah Webster)
CLABBER, BONNY-CLABBER, n. Milk turned, become thick or inspissated.
1107 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.
1108 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 …
1109 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.
1110 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 …
1111 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CROSS-STONE.1 (Noah Webster)
… or milk white, sometimes with a shade of yellow or red.
1112 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.
1113 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.
1114 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.
1115 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CURDLE.6 (Noah Webster)
At Florence they curdle their milk with artichoke flowers.
1116 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.
1117 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DAIRY.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Milk, and all that concerns it, on a farm; or the business of managing milk, and of making butter and cheese. The whole establishment respecting milk, in a family, or on a farm.
1118 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DAIRY.3 (Noah Webster)
2. The place, room or house, where milk is set for cream, managed, and converted into butter or cheese.
1119 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DAIRY.4 (Noah Webster)
3. Milk-farm.
1120 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DAIRYHOUSE.1 (Noah Webster)
DAIRYHOUSE, DAIRYROOM, n. A house or room appropriated to the management of milk.