curd

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  1. noun The part of milk that coagulates when the milk sours or is treated with enzymes. Curd is used to make cheese.
  2. noun A coagulated liquid that resembles milk curd.
  3. intransitive and transitive verb To form or cause to form into curd; curdle.

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  1. Middle English, variant of crud; probably akin to crowden, to press; see crowd1.

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  1. Scots and English dial. crud, from Middle English curd, oftener crud, crod, usually in plural cruddes, croddes, from Irish cruth, also spelled gruth, groth, = Gaelic gruth, curds; cf. Irish cruthaim, I milk.
  2. Scots and English dial. crud, from Middle English crudden, curd, coagulate; from the noun.
 

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