单词 | beest |
释义 | beestn. The thick, protein-rich milk produced by a cow or other female mammal in the first hours after giving birth; colostrum; = beestings n. 1. Also beest milk. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > [noun] > milk > beestings beesteOE beestingsOE colostrum1577 fore-milk1904 eOE Corpus Gloss. (1890) 35/1 Colostrum beost. OE Harley Gloss. (1966) 95 Colostrum, i. lac nouum, beost uel obestum. a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 15v Colustrum, best. a1567 L. Nowell Vocabularium Saxonicum (1952) 35/1 Beost. Beest, the first milke that the cowe giveth after she hath calved. 1754 R. Forbes Jrnl. London to Portsmouth in tr. Ovid Ajax his Speech (new ed.) 24 The head o't [sc. the ale] was as yallow as biest milk. 1771 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. Housekeeper (ed. 2) 219 To make a Beest Custard. Take a pint of beest, set it over the fire, with a little cinnamon, or three bay leaves. 1823 Adventures Ship-boy iii. 76 We had beest-milk and bread for supper, with a glass or two of brandy-wine after it. 1884 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester (1886) at Beast Beast milk is highly valued for making puddings, &c., and is frequently sent by farmers' wives as a present to friends who do not keep cows. 1927 ‘H. MacDiarmid’ Lucky Bag 2 But the lift is yalla as biest milk. 1999 J. J. Graham Shetland Dict. (rev. ed.) 5/1 Beest, first milk drawn from newly-calved cow. When boiled it resembles newly made cheese. 2014 @cowdow 11 Apr. in twitter.com (accessed 2 Sept. 2020) Had family and neighbours that keep sheep come looking for a bit of spare cow beest milk from time to time. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.eOE |
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