Cheese

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• Cheese

  ·noun A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the form of a cheese. II. Cheese ·nou...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• cheese

  A circle of wads covered with painted canvas. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Cheese

  is mentioned only three times in the Bible, and on each occasion under a different name in the Hebre...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Brie cheese

  ·add. ·- A kind of soft French cream cheese; — so called from the district in France where it is ma...

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• Camembert cheese

  ·add. ·- A kind of soft, unpressed cream cheese made in the vicinity of Camembert, near Argentan, Fr...

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• Cheese cloth

  ·add. ·- A thin, loosewoven cotton cloth, such as is used in pressing cheese curds. ...

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• Edam cheese

  ·add. ·- A Dutch pressed cheese of yellow color and fine flavor, made in balls weighing three or fou...

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• Filled cheese

  ·add. ·- An inferior kind of cheese made from skim milk with a fatty "filling," such as oleomargarin...

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• Gruyere cheese

  ·- A kind of cheese made at Gruyere, Switzerland. It is a firm cheese containing numerous cells, and...

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• Head-cheese

  ·noun A dish made of portions of the head, or head and feet, of swine, cut up fine, seasoned, and pr...

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• Limburg cheese

  ·add. ·- ·Alt. of Limburger cheese. ...

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• Limburger cheese

  ·add. ·- A soft cheese made in the Belgian province of Limburg (Limbourg), and usually not eaten unt...

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• Roquefort cheese

  ·add. ·noun ·Alt. of <<Roquefort>>. ...

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• Slipcoat cheese

  ·- A rich variety of new cheese, resembling butter, but white. ...

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• Stilton cheese

  ·add. ·noun ·Alt. of <<Stilton>>. ...

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• cheese-toaster

  A sword. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• cheese it

  Be silent, be quiet, don't do it. Cheese it, the coves are fly; be silent, the people understand our...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• nip cheese

  A nick name for the purser of a ship: from those gentlemen being supposed sometimes to nip, or dimin...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• cheese toaster

  A sword. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• head-cheese

  The ears and feet of swine cut up fine, and, after being boiled, pressed into the form of a cheese. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• buckey-cheese

  a sweet, rank cheese. Hamp. Perhaps from a rank, goatish taste ; BONC, in French, signifying a he-go...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• gehezie cheese

  very poor cheese, from which most of the cream has been taken away. Ess. and Suff. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose