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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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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.
A mass of pomace, or ground apples,
pressed together in the form of a cheese.
The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit
of the dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia).
[Colloq.] 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.
Cheese cake, a cake made of or filled with, a composition of soft curds, sugar, and butter. Prior. -- Cheese fly (Zoöl.), a black dipterous insect (Piophila casei) of which the larvæ or maggots, called skippers or hoppers, live in cheese. -- Cheese mite (Zoöl.), 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. | ||||||||