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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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"Cheese" Quotes from Famous Books

... Cosmo!" returned his father. "When a man goes on drinking like that, he is no better than a cheese under the spigot of a wine-cask; he lives to keep his body well soaked—that it may be the nicer, or the nastier for the worms. Cosmo, my son, don't you learn to drown your soul in your body, like the poor Duke of Clarence ...

— Warlock o' Glenwarlock • George MacDonald

... of the town. The old lady answered that its name was Stilton, and composedly continued her needlework. But I had paused with my mug in air, and was gazing at her with a suddenly arrested concern. "I suppose," I said, "that it has nothing to do with the cheese of that name." "Oh, yes," she answered, with a staggering indifference, "they used ...

— A Miscellany of Men • G. K. Chesterton

... purely imaginary grounds,—and since, besides, I have other things to think about, my mind rarely dwells upon the subject. If Emily were but well, I feel as if I should not care who neglected, misunderstood, or abused me. I would rather you were not of the number either. The crab-cheese arrived safely. Emily has just reminded me to thank you for it: it looks very nice. I wish she were well enough ...

— The Life of Charlotte Bronte • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

... sleep with his clothes on, that he might not lose time in seizing the chisel when he awoke. He ate to live and to labor, and was pleased with a present of "fifteen marzolino cheeses and fourteen pounds of sausage—the latter very welcome, as was also the cheese." Over a gift of choice wines he is not so enthusiastic and the bottles found their way mostly to the tables of his friends and patrons. When intent on some work he usually "confined his diet to a piece of bread which he ate in the middle of his labors." ...

— Popular Science Monthly Volume 86

... "'Cheese it, you little cuss!' I whispered in his ear, 'or I'll break every rib in your poor old chest!' I came in on him a trifle, Just to show him what I could ...

— Red Saunders • Henry Wallace Phillips

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