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† ruen Obs.
Also 6 rewene, rowen, 7 ruin.
[Of obscure origin: cf. ruening.]
1. = rennet n.1 1.
1558Warde Alexis' Secr. i. i. (1568) 28 b, Take the ruen of a Hare, and having frayed and consumed it in hote water, give it the woman to drinke. 1565Cooper Thesaurus, Coagulum, a curde or creame: the ruen of a beast that turneth milke. 1609Bible (Douay) Ps. lxvii. comm., Ruen turneth liquide milke into curde, and so into cheese.
2. ruen cheese, a soft kind of cheese.
1539Elyot Cast. Helthe (1541) 67 b, Mylke hot from the udder,..ruen chese, sweete almondes. 1542Boorde Dyetary xii. (1870) 266 Yet besyde these .iiii. natures of chese, there is a chese called a rewene chese. 1565Cooper Thesaurus, Caseus musteus, greene cheese, or softe & rowen cheese. 1655Moufet & Bennet Health's Improv. 131 We may feed liberally of ruin Cheese. |