About The Word Curd
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What's The Definition Of Curd?
[n] coagulated milk; used to made cheese; "Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet eating some curds and whey"
[n] a coagulated liquid resembling milk curd; "bean curd"; "lemon curd" Synonyms | Synonyms for Curd: Related Terms | Find terms related to Curd: albumen | batter | blood clot | bonnyclabber | butter | buttermilk | casein | certified milk | cheese | clabber | clot | clotted cream | coagulate | coagulum | condensed milk | cornstarch | crassamentum | cream | dairy products | Devonshire cream | dough | egg white | embolus | gaum | gel | gelatin | ghee | glair | glop | glue | gluten | goo | gook | goop | gruel | grume | gumbo | gunk | half-and-half | heavy cream | jam | jell | jelly | legumin | light cream | loblolly | lopper | loppered milk | margarine | milk | molasses | mucilage | mucus | nonfat dry milk | oleo | oleomargarine | pap | paracasein | paste | porridge | pudding | pulp | puree | putty | raw milk | rob | semifluid | semiliquid | size | skim milk | soup | sour cream | starch | sticky mess | syrup | thrombus | treacle | turn | whey | whipping cream | yogurt See Also | bean curd | cheese | dairy product | food product | foodstuff | tofu Curd In Webster's Dictionary \Curd\ (k[^u]rd), n. [Of Celtic origin; cf. Gael. gruth,
Ir, gruth, cruth, curd, cruthaim I milk.] [Sometimes written
{crud}.]
1. 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.
Curds and cream, the flower of country fare.
--Dryden.
2. The coagulated part of any liquid.
3. The edible flower head of certain brassicaceous plants, as
the broccoli and cauliflower.
Broccoli should be cut while the curd, as the
flowering mass is termed, is entire. --R. Thompson.
Cauliflowers should be cut for use while the head,
or curd, is still close and compact. --F. Burr.
\Curd\ (k?rd), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Curded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Curding}.] To cause to coagulate or thicken; to cause to congeal; to curdle. Does it curd thy blood To say I am thy mother? --Shak. \Curd\, v. i. To become coagulated or thickened; to separate into curds and whey --Shak. |
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