Word Meanings - CHEESEPARING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A thin portion of the rind of a cheese. -- a.
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- PORTIONIST
One of the incumbents of a benefice which has two or more rectors or vicars. (more info) 1. A scholar at Merton College, Oxford, who has a certain academical allowance or portion; -- corrupted into postmaster. Shipley. - CHEESE CLOTH
A thin, loosewoven cotton cloth, such as is used in pressing cheese curds. - PORTION
1. That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything. 2. A part considered by itself, though not actually cut off or separated from the whole. These are parts of his ways; but how little a portion is heard - PORTIONER
See 2 (more info) 1. One who portions. - CHEESEPARING
A thin portion of the rind of a cheese. -- a. - PORTIONLESS
Having no portion. - CHEESE
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 - CHEESEMONGER
One who deals incheese. B. Jonson. - CHEESELEP
A bag in which rennet is kept. - DISPROPORTIONALLY
In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally. - IMPROPORTIONATE
Not proportionate. - DISPROPORTIONALITY
The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More. - DISPROPORTIONABLE
Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv. - PROPORTIONATE
Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. Longfellow. What is proportionate to his transgression. Locke. - REAPPORTIONMENT
A second or a new apportionment. - EDAM; EDAM CHEESE
A Dutch pressed cheese of yellow color and fine flavor, made in balls weighing three or four pounds, and usually colored crimson outside; -- so called from the village of Edam, near Amsterdam. Also, cheese of the same type, wherever made. - MISPROPORTION
To give wrong proportions to; to join without due proportion. - DISPROPORTIONATE
Not proportioned; unsymmetrical; unsuitable to something else in bulk, form, value, or extent; out of proportion; inadequate; as, in a perfect body none of the limbs are disproportionate; it is wisdom not to undertake a work disproportionate means. - PROPORTION
1. The relation or adaptation of one portion to another, or to the whole, as respect magnitude, quantity, or degree; comparative relation; ratio; as, the proportion of the parts of a building, or of the body. The image of Christ, made after his - PROPORTIONABLE
Capable of being proportioned, or made proportional; also, proportional; proportionate. -- Pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. But eloquence may exist without a proportionable degree of wisdom. Burke. - IMPROPORTIONABLE
Not proportionable. B. Jonson. - CAMEMBERT; CAMEMBERT CHEESE
A kind of soft, unpressed cream cheese made in the vicinity of Camembert, near Argentan, France; also, any cheese of the same type, wherever made. - GRUYERE CHEESE
'' (Gruyère, Switzerland. It is a firm cheese containing numerous cells, and is known in the United States as Schweitzerkäse. - PROPORTIONALITY
The state of being in proportion. Coleridge. - PROPORTIONATENESS
The quality or state of being proportionate. Sir M. Hale. - SLIPCOAT CHEESE
A rich variety of new cheese, resembling butter, but white. Halliwell. - SUPERPROPORTION
Overplus or excess of proportion. Sir K. Digby.