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caseous, a.|ˈkeɪsɪəs|
[f. L. case-us cheese + -ous.]
1. Of the nature of cheese, cheesy.
1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. 3 The Asses [milk] having more serum and lesse of the caseous, or cheesy matter. 1781Kerr in Phil. Trans. LXXI. 380 [It] forms a coagulum with the caseous part of the milk. 1881Daily Tel. 23 Feb., Not Parmesan, but some inexpensive and wholesome caseous product.
b. humorously. Abounding in cheese; fond of cheese.
1807–8Syd. Smith Plymley's Lett. Wks. 1859 II. 168/1 A universal state of disaffection among that caseous and wrathful people [the Welsh]. 1859Sala Tw. round Clock (1861) 271 Parma, in which caseous Italian city, etc.
2. Pathol. Resembling cheese in appearance.
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v., Cataracts are by some divided into milky, and caseous, differing only in the degree of hardness or consistence. 1804Abernethy Surg. Observ. I. 43 Cysts..containing a kind of caseous substance. 1878T. Bryant Pract. Surg. I. 5 The formation of caseous deposits..in the bones, joints, skin, or lungs. |