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▪ I. curdle, v.|ˈkɜːd(ə)l|
Also 6–7 crudle, 7–8 (9 dial.) cruddle.
[Frequentative of curd v.]
1. trans. To form (milk) into curd; to turn (any liquid) into a soft solid substance like curd; to coagulate, clot, congeal.
1590–6[see curdled 1, 1 c.]. 1601Holland Pliny xxiii. vii, It wil cruddle milk as wel as rennet. 1611Bible Job x. 10 Hast thou not powred me out as milke, and cruddled me like cheese? 1742Lond. & Country Brew. i. (ed. 4) 40 The Wort also will be curdled, and broke into small Particles. 1875Ure Dict. Arts I. 767 All acids curdle milk.
b. to curdle the blood: usually fig. said of the effect of cold, horror, etc. upon a person.
1602Marston Ant. & Mel. ii. Wks. 1856 I. 26 O how impatience..cruddles thick my blood, with boiling rage! a1674Clarendon Hist. Reb. xvi. (1704) III. 559 Being now awaken'd by this Alarm..and his flegm a little curdled, he begun to think himself in danger. 1760C. Johnston Chrysal (1822) I. 14 An holy horror curdled all my blood. 1891Baring-Gould In Troub. Land v. 63 The glacial bise sweeps over the face of the desert, curdling the blood.
2. transf. and fig.
1627–47Feltham Resolves (ed. 7) 154 We are curdled to the fashion of a life by time and set successions. 1794G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. I. vi. 210 The surface of the water is fretted and curdled into the finest waves by the undulations of the air. 1816Byron Dream i, A thought, A slumbering thought..curdles a long life into one hour. 1821Clare Vill. Minstr. II. 203 So beauty curdles envy's look on thee.
3. intr. To become or form curd; to coagulate.
1601Holland Pliny I. 348 The milk..will not cruddle. 1653H. More Conject. Cabbal. (1713) 190 How this Primordial Water..should ever coagulate or cruddle into that consistency. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) III. 56 The milk of the goat is..not so apt to curdle upon the stomach as that of the cow. 1853A. Soyer Pantroph. 90 Mint prevented milk from curdling.
b. Of the blood. (Now usually fig.)
1611Beaum. & Fl. King & no King i. i, See now my blood cruddles at this! 1668Culpepper & Cole Barthol. Anat., Manual i. i. 302 Extravenated Blood..curdles and putrefies. 1784Cowper Task vi. 514 The blood thrills and curdles at the thought. a1845Barham Ingol. Leg. (1877) 183 It makes the blood curdle with fear.
c. transf. and fig.
1818Byron Mazeppa xviii, An icy sickness curdling o'er My heart. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. ii. 22 The adjacent atmosphere..curdled up into visible fog.
▪ II. curdle, n. rare.|ˈkɜːd(ə)l|
[f. prec. vb.]
The act or product of curdling; † a curd (obs.).
a1593H. Smith Serm. (1622) 444 There is a kind of downe or curdle upon Wisedom. 1611Cotgr., Mattes, curds, or curdles. 1821Clare Vill. Minstr. I. 30 Tracing the..winding fountains to their infant bed, Marking each curdle boil and boil away. 1933D. L. Sayers Murder must Advertise iv. 65 What disgusting stuff cauliflower could be—a curdle of cabbage! |