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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
curd .
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Examples
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Amongst sensible people it is a substantial meal of bread and boiled beans, eggs, cheese, curded milk and the pastry called fatírah, followed by coffee and a pipe.
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It is reported of the Prophet that, when anyone complained to him of a pain in the head or legs, he would bid him be cupped and after cupping not eat salt food, fasting, for it engendereth scurvy; neither eat sour things as curded milk408 immediately after cupping.
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If, likewise, you put a little of the said juice within a pail or bucket full of water, you shall see the water instantly turn and grow thick therewith as if it were milk-curds, whereof the virtue is so great that the water thus curded is a present remedy for horses subject to the colic, and such as strike at their own flanks.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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If, likewise, you put a little of the said juice within a pail or bucket full of water, you shall see the water instantly turn and grow thick therewith as if it were milk-curds, whereof the virtue is so great that the water thus curded is a present remedy for horses subject to the colic, and such as strike at their own flanks.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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And those breasts, which before were the curded _Nacter_-hills, and called the Banket of the Gods, I have seen despised to be like stinking Cows-Udders, I, and call'd worse names to boot.
The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh
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Dissolved albumin, like that in milk, is curded, or coagulated, in the stomach.
Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters
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The curded mass is then acted upon by the pepsin and hydrochloric acid in the same manner as the other proteids.
Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters
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Its open spaces were saturated with moonlight; while trees and bushes, solitary or huddled together, stood in black pools of shadow, and fragments of curded cloud trailed across the sky.
The Great Amulet Maud Diver 1906
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The butter-milk is curded and the curds are dried, sometimes in the sun, becoming churma, which is eaten with barley meal and tea or with barley meal and butter when there is no opportunity to boil tea, the whole mixed up with the fingers and eaten in lumps.
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'Twas grey -- grey everywhere: the sky lead-colored, with deeper shades toward the east, where a bank of cloud blotted the coast line: the thick rain descending straight, with hardly wind enough to set the sails flapping; the sea spread like a plate of lead, save only where, to leeward, a streak of curded white crawled away from under the _Godsend's_ keel.
The Splendid Spur Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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