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Cheese

noun

A solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk.

Erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced in United States. Synonyms: cheeseflower, high mallow, Malva sylvestris, tall mallow.

verb

Used in the imperative (get away, or stop it).

Wind onto a cheese.

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... most fertile pastures in the world. On those pastures grazed the most famous cattle in the world. An ox often weighed more than two thousand pounds. The cows produced two and three calves at a time, the sheep four and five lambs. In a single village four thousand kine were counted. Butter and cheese were exported to the annual value of a million, salted provisions to an incredible extent. The farmers were industrious, thriving, and independent. It is an amusing illustration of the agricultural thrift and republican simplicity of ...

— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley

... youd tell the Chickabiddy that the Jinghiskahns eat no end of toasted cheese, and that it's the secret of their amazing ...

— Misalliance • George Bernard Shaw

... Lorraine, where agriculture is less strenuously carried on, and the fertility of the soil is less. But Lorraine possesses, in compensation, greater riches in the earth, in coal and iron and salt mines. Cows are grazed on the S. Vosges in summer, and large quantities of cheese (Munster cheese) are made and exported. ...

— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... in our room, bringing the tobacco with him, since there were but two chairs in his. Juste, as brisk as a squirrel, ran out, and returned with a boy carrying three bottles of Bordeaux, some Brie cheese, ...

— Z. Marcas • Honore de Balzac

... of wood about two feet high, to protect them from the white ant and mouse, as also from the jerboa, which is so pretty an object to look at as it jumps about the fields, but is an especial foe to the natives. The people came forth from the villages to offer cheese and Indian corn. They were black pagans and slaves, meanly and scantily dressed, but far more civilised in reality than the fanatical people among whom Barth and his companions had ...

— Great African Travellers - From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley • W.H.G. Kingston

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