[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

cheese \cheese\ ch=ez, n. oe. chese, as. c=ese, fr. l.
   caseus, ll. casius. cf. casein.
   1. the curd of milk, coagulated usually with rennet,
      separated from the whey, and pressed into a solid mass in
      a hoop or mold.
      1913 webster

   2. a mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in
      the form of a cheese.
      1913 webster

   3. the flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of the dwarf mallow
      malva rotundifolia. colloq.
      1913 webster

   4. a low courtesy; -- so called on account of the cheese form
      assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending
      the skirts by a rapid gyration. --de quincey. --thackeray.
      1913 webster

   cheese cake, a cake made of or filled with, a composition
      of soft curds, sugar, and butter. --prior.

   cheese fly zool., a black dipterous insect piophila
      casei of which the larvae or maggots, called skippers
      or hoppers, live in cheese.

   cheese mite zool., a minute mite tryoglyhus siro in
      cheese and other articles of food.

   cheese press, a press used in making cheese, to separate
      the whey from the curd, and to press the curd into a mold.
      

   cheese rennet bot., a plant of the madder family golium
      verum, or yellow bedstraw, sometimes used to coagulate
      milk. the roots are used as a substitute for madder.

   cheese vat, a vat or tub in which the curd is formed and
      cut or broken, in cheese making.
      1913 webster
see also:
casein malva rotundifolia cheese cake cheese fly piophila casei cheese mite 
tryoglyhus siro cheese press cheese rennet golium verum yellow bedstraw 
cheese vat 

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