'Cheese' definitions:

Definition of 'cheese'

From: WordNet
noun
A solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk
noun
Erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced in United States [syn: tall mallow, high mallow, cheese, cheeseflower, Malva sylvestris]
verb
Used in the imperative (get away, or stop it); "Cheese it!"
verb
Wind onto a cheese; "cheese the yarn"

Definition of 'Cheese'

From: GCIDE
  • Cheese \Cheese\ (ch[=e]z), n. [OE. chese, AS. c[=e]se, 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 larv[ae] 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]

Definition of 'Cheese'

From: Easton
  • Cheese (A.S. cese). This word occurs three times in the Authorized Version as the translation of three different Hebrew words:
  • 1 Sam. 17:18, "ten cheeses;" i.e., ten sections of curd.
  • 2 Sam. 17:29, "cheese of kine" = perhaps curdled milk of kine. The Vulgate version reads "fat calves."
  • Job 10:10, curdled milk is meant by the word.

Synonyms of 'cheese'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Words containing 'Cheese'