Category:Cheese

cheese (cheez)
n.

1. the curd of milk separated from the whey and prepared in many ways as a food.
2. a definite mass of this substance, often in the shape of a wheel or cylinder.
3. something of similar shape or consistency, as a mass of pomace in cider-making.
4. Informal. partly digested milk curds sometimes spit up by infants.
5. cheeses, any of several mallows, esp. Malva neglecta, a sprawling,weedy plant having small lavender or white flowers and round, flat, segmented fruits thought to resemble little wheels of cheese.
6. Slang (vulgar). smegma.
7. Metalworking.
   a. a transverse section cut from an ingot, as for making into a tire.
   b. an ingot or billet made into a convex, circular form by blows at the ends.
8. a low curtsy.

v.

1. Informal. (of infants) to spit up partly digested milk curds.
2. Metalworking. to forge (an ingot or billet) into a cheese.