Word Meanings - CURDLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. To change into curd; to coagulate; as, rennet causes milk to curdle. Thomson. 2. To thicken; to congeal. Then Mary could feel her heart's blood curdle cold. Southey.
Related words: (words related to CURDLE)
- THICKENING
Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker. - BLOODSUCKER
Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species. 2. One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer. Shak. 3. A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an - BLOODSHEDDER
One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer. - HEARTWOOD
The hard, central part of the trunk of a tree, consisting of the old and matured wood, and usually differing in color from the outer layers. It is technically known as duramen, and distinguished from the softer sapwood or alburnum. - HEART
A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood. Why does my blood thus muster to my heart! Shak. Note: In adult mammals and birds, the heart is four-chambered, the right auricle and ventricle - COAGULATE
Coagulated. Shak. (more info) coagulate, fr. coagulum means of coagulation, fr. cogere, coactum, to - BLOODULF
The European bullfinch. - CHANGEFUL
Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. Pope. His course had been changeful. Motley. -- Change"ful*ly, adv. -- Change"ful*ness, n. - BLOODROOT
A plant , with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called also puccoon, redroot, bloodwort, tetterwort, turmeric, and Indian paint. It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstock is used as a stimulant - HEARTBROKEN
Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved. - CONGEALABLE
Capable of being congealed. --Con*geal"a*ble*ness, n. - HEARTGRIEF
Heartache; sorrow. Milton. - HEARTEN
1. To encourage; to animate; to incite or stimulate the courage of; to embolden. Hearten those that fight in your defense. Shak. 2. To restore fertility or strength to, as to land. - HEARTDEEP
Rooted in the heart. Herbert. - COULD
Was, should be, or would be, able, capable, or susceptible. Used as an auxiliary, in the past tense or in the conditional present. - BLOODY-MINDED
Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; bloodthirsty. Dryden. - CHANGEABLY
In a changeable manner. - BLOODSHEDDING
Bloodshed. Shak. - HEARTENER
One who, or that which, heartens, animates, or stirs up. W. Browne. - BLOODINESS
1. The state of being bloody. 2. Disposition to shed blood; bloodthirstiness. All that bloodiness and savage cruelty which was in our nature. Holland. - HOLLOW-HEARTED
Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within. Syn. -- Faithless; dishonest; false; treacherous. - 'SBLOOD
An abbreviation of God's blood; -- used as an oath. Shak. - WHITE-HEART
A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin. - SWEETHEART
A lover of mistress. - GREAT-HEARTED
1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble. - REEXCHANGE
To exchange anew; to reverse . - PIGEON-HEARTED
Timid; easily frightened; chicken-hearted. Beau. & Fl. - EXCHANGE EDITOR
An editor who inspects, and culls from, periodicals, or exchanges, for his own publication. - DISHEARTENMENT
Discouragement; dejection; depression of spirits.