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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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  1. n. The curd of milk, coagulated usually with rennet, separated from the whey, and pressed into a solid mass in a hoop or mold.
  2. n. A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the form of a cheese.
  3. n. The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of the dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia).
  4. n. 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.
  5. n. a solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk
  6. n. erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced in United States
  7. v. used in the imperative (get away, or stop it)
  8. v. wind onto a cheese
  9. n:100 n. a solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk v. used in the imperative (get away, or stop it) v. wind onto a cheese