cheese Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk
  2. noun erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced in United States
    tall mallow; high mallow; Malva sylvestris; cheeseflower.
  3. verb used in the imperative (get away, or stop it)
    • Cheese it!
  4. verb wind onto a cheese
    • cheese the yarn

WordNet

Cheese noun
Etymology
OE. chese, AS. cese, fr. L. caseus, LL. casius. Cf. Casein.
Definitions
  1. The curd of milk, coagulated usually with rennet, separated from the whey, and pressed into a solid mass in a hoop or mold.
  2. A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed togehter in the form of a cheese.
  3. The flat, circuliar, mucilaginous fruit of the dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia). Colloq.
  4. A low courtesy; -- so called on account of the cheese form assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration. De Quincey. Thackeray.

Webster 1913