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Cream   /krim/   Listen
noun
Cream  n.  
1.
The rich, oily, and yellowish part of milk, which, when the milk stands unagitated, rises, and collects on the surface. It is the part of milk from which butter is obtained.
2.
The part of any liquor that rises, and collects on the surface. (R.)
3.
A delicacy of several kinds prepared for the table from cream, etc., or so as to resemble cream.
4.
A cosmetic; a creamlike medicinal preparation. "In vain she tries her paste and creams, To smooth her skin or hide its seams."
5.
The best or choicest part of a thing; the quintessence; as, the cream of a jest or story; the cream of a collection of books or pictures. "Welcome, O flower and cream of knights errant."
Bavarian cream, a preparation of gelatin, cream, sugar, and eggs, whipped; to be eaten cold.
Cold cream, an ointment made of white wax, almond oil, rose water, and borax, and used as a salve for the hands and lips.
Cream cheese, a kind of cheese made from curd from which the cream has not been taken off, or to which cream has been added.
Cream gauge, an instrument to test milk, being usually a graduated glass tube in which the milk is placed for the cream to rise.
Cream nut, the Brazil nut.
Cream of lime.
(a)
A scum of calcium carbonate which forms on a solution of milk of lime from the carbon dioxide of the air.
(b)
A thick creamy emulsion of lime in water.
Cream of tartar (Chem.), purified tartar or argol; so called because of the crust of crystals which forms on the surface of the liquor in the process of purification by recrystallization. It is a white crystalline substance, with a gritty acid taste, and is used very largely as an ingredient of baking powders; called also potassium bitartrate, acid potassium tartrate, etc.


verb
Cream  v. t.  (past & past part. creamed; pres. part. creaming)  
1.
To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.
2.
To take off the best or choicest part of.
3.
To furnish with, or as with, cream. "Creaming the fragrant cups."
To cream butter (Cooking), to rub, stir, or beat, butter till it is of a light creamy consistency.


Cream  v. i.  To form or become covered with cream; to become thick like cream; to assume the appearance of cream; hence, to grow stiff or formal; to mantle. "There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pool."





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"Cream" Quotes from Famous Books



... is lighter than the same volume of water will float; since a cubic foot of wood weighs less than a cubic foot of water, the wood will float; since a quart of oil is lighter than a quart of water, the oil will float; since a pint of cream is lighter than a pint of milk, the cream will rise. In the same way, anything that is lighter than the same volume of air will be pushed up by the air. When a balloon with its passengers weighs less than the amount of air that it takes ...
— Common Science • Carleton W. Washburne
... up the wooden pail, painted blue on the outside, with a red stripe near the top for ornament, and cream-colored inside. It was called a "patent pail" in those days, as it was a comparatively recent innovation, being cheaper, lighter, and stronger than the tin pail which it was rapidly replacing. At the well was a stout pole, pinned through the ...
— In the Midst of Alarms • Robert Barr
... columns supported the roofs of the principal apartments in which the Pharaoh held his audiences, but elsewhere the walls and pillars were coated with cream-coloured stucco or whitewash, on which scenes of private life were depicted in colours. The pavement, like the walls, was also decorated. In one of the halls which seems to have belonged to the harem, there is still to be seen distinctly the picture of a rectangular piece of water ...
— History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 5 (of 12) • G. Maspero
... attractive and fascinating about this first visit to the wilds of Algoma. We were entertained royally. Peaches, cream, and preserved fruits were among the dainties which covered the table. Where all the good things came from was a matter of wonder to us. The meat, however, consisting of a hind quarter of mutton, had, we found, ...
— Missionary Work Among The Ojebway Indians • Edward Francis Wilson
... many carefully dressed ladies, daintily holding little plates, and going about from one counter to another, picking up little cakes filled with cream and soaked in syrup. They eat scores of them, and they do it every day and any hour of the day, in the morning or afternoon or whenever they happen to pass. No wonder they look pasty-faced! We are only here ...
— Round the Wonderful World • G. E. Mitton


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