A soft white substance formed when milk coagulates, used as the basis for cheese or eaten as a food. Frequently in plural.

Curdled milk. Now U.S.

Curd.

Curds produced by boiling milk; = welled curds at welled, adj.1 1.

‘Those parts of the curd left in whey, which, when it is boiled, float on the top’ (Jamieson).

Curds used to make cheese. Cf. ricotta, n.

The act or product of curdling. Also figurative.

Milk that has naturally clotted on souring. Cf. clabber, n. 2.

concrete in plural. Skimmings, curds (see quots.).

= bonny clabber, n., milk naturally curdled.

Of milk: curdled. Only in yearned milk: curds, esp. when eaten as a food.

plural. (See quot. 1691.)

(see quot. 1688).

The process of curdling milk to make cheese; milk so curdled. Obsolete.

slip cheese, slip curd: (see quots. 1784 1854).