Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The ferment of the gastric juice of young ruminants, which coagulates casein.
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a peculiar soluble proteid, called casein, which is precipitated by a special ferment, the rennet-ferment, and the insoluble proteid, the curd, thus obtained is then acted on by the pepsin.
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