† well curdsn.
Obsolete.
Curds produced by boiling milk; = welled curds at welled adj.1 1.
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1538 T. Elyot Dict. Schiston, the mylke that remayneth after that the mylke is sodden, whiche is callyd well courdes.
1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Schistum, weale cruddes.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 148 Of the Whay that commeth from the Cheese, being sodde with a soft fyre, tyl the fatnesse of the Cheese swym aloft, are made Welcurdes [Margin Wellcurds].
?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 49 Pyepast, not made of well curds, nor gathered of whey in soomer, nor mingled in winter with salt butter waterd or washt.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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