cheesing
present participle of cheese
• Gieschen, seeching
Source: Wiktionary
Cheese, n. Etym: [OE. chese, AS. cese, fr. L. caseus, LL. casius. Cf. Casein.]
1. The curd of milk, coagulated usually with rennet, separated from the whey, and pressed into a solid mass in a hoop or mold.
2. A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed togehter in the form of a cheese.
3. The flat, circuliar, mucilaginous fruit of the dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia). [Colloq.]
4. A low courtesy; -- so called on account of the cheese form assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration. De Quincey. Thackeray. Cheese cake, a cake made of or filled with, a composition of soft curds, sugar, and butter. Prior.
– Cheese fly (Zoƶl.), a black dipterous insect (Piophila casei) of which the larvƦ or maggots, called ckippers or hoppers, live in cheese.
– Cheese mite (Zoƶl.), a minute mite (Tryoglyhus siro) in cheese and other articles of food.
– Cheese press, a press used in making cheese, to separate the whey from the curd, and to press the curd into a mold.
– Cheese rennet (Bot.), a plant of the Madder family (Golium verum, or yellow bedstraw), sometimes used to coagulate milk. The roots are used as a substitute for madder.
– Cheese vat, a vat or tub in which the curd is formed and cut or broken, in cheese making.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 June 2025
(adjective) having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle; āa square peg in a round holeā; āa square cornerā
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
