Cream

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The yellowish fatty component of unhomogenized milk that tends to accumulate at the surface.
  • noun. Any of various substances resembling or containing cream.
  • noun. A pale yellow to yellowish white.
  • noun. The choicest part.
  • intransitive verb. To form cream.
  • intransitive verb. To form foam or froth at the top.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To have an orgasm.
  • intransitive verb. To be excited or delighted about something.
  • intransitive verb. To remove the cream from; skim.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To take or remove (the best part).
  • intransitive verb. To take the best part from.
  • intransitive verb. To beat into a creamy consistency.
  • intransitive verb. To prepare or cook in or with a cream sauce.
  • intransitive verb. To add cream to.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To defeat overwhelmingly.
  • intransitive verb. To damage severely; destroy.
  • intransitive verb. To have an orgasm in (one's pants, for example).
  • idiom. (cream (one's) jeans/panties) To be excited or delighted about something.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. An obsolete variant of chrism.
  • A dialectal variant of crim.
  • noun. Same as crame.
  • To work and beat until it becomes smooth and light, forming a creamy mass. Butter is often so treated before it is mixed with other ingredients.
  • In cookery generally, to prepare in a cream sauce (chicken, oysters, etc.): frequently for use as filling for molds of puff-paste or of bread.
  • noun. The richer and butyraceous part of milk, which, when the milk stands unagitated in a cool place, rises and forms an oily or viscid scum on the surface; hence, in general, any part of a liquor that separates from the rest, rises, and collects on the surface. By agitating the cream of milk, butter is formed.
  • noun. Something resembling cream; any liquid or soft paste of the consistency of cream: as, the cream of ale; shaving-cream.
  • noun. In shot-making, a spongy crust of oxid taken from the surface of the lead, and used to coat over the bottom of the colander, to keep the lead from running too rapidly through the holes.
  • noun. The best part of a thing; the choice part; the quintessence: as, the cream of a jest or story.
  • noun. A sweetmeat or dish prepared from cream, or of such consistency as to resemble cream: as, an iced cream, or ice-cream; a chocolate cream.
  • noun. A name given to certain cordials because of their thick (viscid) consistency, with perhaps some reference to their reputed excellence.
  • To take the cream from by skimming; skim: as, to cream milk.
  • To remove the quintessence or best part of.
  • To add cream to, as tea or coffee.
  • To form a layer of cream upon the surface: become covered with a scum of any kind; froth; mantle.
  • To rise like cream.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To form or become covered with cream; to become thick like cream; to assume the appearance of cream; hence, to grow stiff or formal; to mantle.
  • transitive verb. To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.
  • transitive verb. To take off the best or choicest part of.
  • transitive verb. To furnish with, or as with, cream.
  • transitive verb. to rub, stir, or beat, butter till it is of a light creamy consistency.
  • noun. The rich, oily, and yellowish part of milk, which, when the milk stands unagitated, rises, and collects on the surface. It is the part of milk from which butter is obtained.
  • noun. The part of any liquor that rises, and collects on the surface.
  • noun. A delicacy of several kinds prepared for the table from cream, etc., or so as to resemble cream.
  • noun. A cosmetic; a creamlike medicinal preparation.
  • noun. The best or choicest part of a thing; the quintessence.
  • noun. a preparation of gelatin, cream, sugar, and eggs, whipped; -- to be eaten cold.
  • noun. an ointment made of white wax, almond oil, rose water, and borax, and used as a salve for the hands and lips.
  • Word Usage
    "Ice cream man: Ok, that'll be $9.47. * hands them all their ice cream* Joe:"
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    creamed  creaming  creams