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Cheese   /tʃiz/   Listen
Cheese

noun
1.
A solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk.
2.
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
1.
Used in the imperative (get away, or stop it).
2.
Wind onto a cheese.



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"Cheese" Quotes from Famous Books



... more reasons to-day than ever before why the owner of a small place should have his, or her, own vegetable garden. The days of home weaving, home cheese-making, home meat-packing, are gone. With a thousand and one other things that used to be made or done at home, they have left the fireside and followed the factory chimney. These things could be turned ...
— Home Vegetable Gardening • F. F. Rockwell

... earth was left for poor Dr. Wolf to do? Could he sub-embezzle a Highlander's breeks? Could he subtract more than her skin from off the singed cat? Could he peel the core of a rotten apple? Could he pare a grated cheese rind? Could he flay a skinned flint? Could he fleece a hog after Satan had shaved it as clean as a ...
— Hard Cash • Charles Reade

... you too must perish! Your wretched towns shall be grated like this cheese.(1) Now let us pour some Attic ...
— Peace • Aristophanes

... no cheese, some love no fish, and some Love not their friends, nor their own house or home; Some start at pig, slight chicken, love not fowl, More than they love a cuckoo, or an owl; Leave such, my CHRISTIANA, to their choice, And seek those who to find thee will rejoice; By no means ...
— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan

... a thorough antiquary: a little, rusty, musty Old fellow, always groping among ruins. He relished a building as you Englishmen relish a cheese, the more mouldy and crumbling it was, the more it was to his taste. A shell of an old nameless temple, or the cracked walls of a broken-down amphitheatre, would throw him into raptures; and he took more delight in these crusts and cheese parings of ...
— Tales of a Traveller • Washington Irving


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