caseousadj.

1654 W. Charleton Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana iii. xiii. 321 The Ramous and Grosser particles of the milk, which constitute the Caseous and Butyrous parts thereof.

1682 R. Boyle Contin. New Exper. Physico-mech.: 2nd Pt. 117 To separate the Butyrous from the Caseous part.

1781 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 71 380 The blood of the insect forms a coagulum with the caseous part of the milk.

1802 Jrnl. Nat. Philos. Mar. 216 My paint will, therefore, contain only the caseous part, a portion of flaked lime and whiting.

1844 T. J. Graham Mod. Domest. Med. (ed. 9) 174 Whey is the watery saccharine part of milk, freed in a great measure from the butyraceous and caseous matters.

1884 E. P. Hurd tr. G. O. Dujardin-Beaumetz Dis. Stomach & Intestines xvii. 254 As for milk, the aqueous part was absorbed, the caseous part expelled, the sugar was absorbed.

1913 W. S. Walsh Handy Bk. Curious Information 197 They [sc. ancient nations] seem merely to have allowed the milk to sour, and to have formed the cheese from the caseous part of the milk, after expelling the serum or whey.

1974 O. A. Jäger & I. Pearce Antiq. North Ethiopia (ed. 2) 124 (note) The colour powder was mixed with water and some juices of trees, in later times with the white of an egg or perhaps the caseous part of milk.

1684 J. Browne Adenochoiradelogia i. xiv. 124 He at length died Consumptive..his Body being opened..very many glandules were found in his Mesentery... These being dissected, nothing but a certain kind of whitish Cream was found therein, hardened into a Caseous or Cheesy substance.

1734 London Evening Post 22 Oct. It cures old Claps, Shankers, nay if you piss thro' a Dozen Holes (old Gleets, caseous Ulcers in the Uræthra or Prostatiæ..and Whites in Women, when every thing else is left off).

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) Cataracts are by some divided into milky, and caseous, differing only in the degree of hardness or consistence.

1784 T. White Treat. Struma or Scrofula 22 (note) As they [sc. lymphatic glands in the lungs] grow large, when divided, there will be found a thick caseous substance.

1804 J. Abernethy Surg. Observ. 43 Cysts..containing a kind of caseous substance.

1868 J. H. Douglass tr. E. Boisseau in Buffalo Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 8 51 According to the Strasbourg school, there are two distinct kinds of phthisis:—1. The connective tuberculous phthisis of Laennec; 2. The epithelial, caseous phthisis, tuberculide.

1921 Farmers' Bull. (U.S. Dept. Agric.) No. 1155 14 Caseous lymphadenitis is a chronic, infectious disease of the lymphatic system in sheep.

1987 E. W. Burr Compan. Bird Med. iv. 23/1 Lesions in the mouth may be plaquelike, raised, caseous, or exudative. Occasionally foreign bodies are found (seed hulls, plant awns, small inedible objects).

2002 New Scientist 9 Nov. (Inside Science 155) 3/1 As a result, the tissues sustain more and more damage from huge numbers of coalescing tubercles, with large areas of caseous necrosis.

1808 ‘P. Plymley’ Eighth, Ninth & Last Let. viii. 14 An universal state of disaffection among that caseous, and wrathful people [sc. the Welsh].

1859 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock in Welcome Guest 4 Sept. 293/2 Parma, in which caseous Italian city there exists..a huge tumble-down, ruinous, leaky, mildewed salle.

1893 Glasgow Herald 12 Apr. Professor M'Bore was left to enjoy his Gorgonzola, in the full consciousness that he was performing a charitable action to himself in ending off his dinner thus with a kind of caseous benediction.

1912 41st Ann. Rep. Local Govt. Board 1911–12 ii. p. lvi, in Parl. Papers 1912–13 (Cd. 6331) XXXV. 349 A man was discovered selling milk from a bottle-shaped milk can, the cover of which on examination was found to be caked with offensive caseous matter, which appeared to be of many days' growth.

1983 Times 23 Feb. 12/1 The French record in caseous innovation..is much more formidable than ours.

2001 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 30 Sept. Eat these little caseous balloons immediately.