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a substance that curdles milk in making cheese and junket

a substance that curdles milk in making cheese and junket

A name of many different kinds of apples. Cf. Reinette.

A name of many different kinds of apples. Cf. Reinette.

The lining membrane of the stomach of an unweaned calf, lamb, etc., used to curdle milk.

Inner membrane of calf's stomach; also an infusion made from same.

The prepared inner membrane of a calf's stomach, used to make milk run together or coagulate.

A sweet kind of apple.

Inner membrane of a calf's stomach, used to coagulate milk.

The dried stomach of a calf; used for curdling milk.

When the fourth stomach or Abomnsus of the calf is salted and dried, it possesses the property of coagulating milk, when a portion of it is soaked in water, and the infusion- Rennet, Rendles, Ronning, (Prov.) Earning, Preaser, Read, Running, Steep- is added to milk.

Preparation of calf's stomach which coagulates milk.

A ferment which coagulates milk, found in the fourth stomach of ruminants, and in general in the gastric and pancreatic secretions. See abomasum and milk-curdling ferment, under ferment.

n. [Anglo-Saxon] The inner membrane of the fourth stomach the calf, or an infusion or preparation of it, used for coagulating milk.

n. The coagulated milk found in the stomachs of calves or other sucking quadrupeds.;— also Rennet.