cheese
    n 1: a solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk
    2: 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]
    v 1: used in the imperative (get away, or stop it); "Cheese it!"
    2: wind onto a cheese; "cheese the yarn"

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.
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   2. A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in
      the form of a cheese.
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   3. The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of the dwarf mallow
      (Malva rotundifolia). [Colloq.]
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   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.
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   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.
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Cheese
   (A.S. cese). This word occurs three times in the Authorized
   Version as the translation of three different Hebrew words: (1.)
   1 Sam. 17:18, "ten cheeses;" i.e., ten sections of curd. (2.) 2
   Sam. 17:29, "cheese of kine" = perhaps curdled milk of kine. The
   Vulgate version reads "fat calves." (3.) Job 10:10, curdled milk
   is meant by the word.