Whey

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Whey \Whey\, n. [AS. hw[ae]g; cf. D. wei, hui, Fries. weye, LG.
     wey, waje. ]
     The serum, or watery part, of milk, separated from the more
     thick or coagulable part, esp. in the process of making
     cheese.
  


     Note: In this process, the thick part is called {curd}, and
           the thin part whey.
           [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  whey
       n 1: the serum or watery part of milk that is separated from the
            curd in making cheese [syn: {milk whey}]
       2: watery part of milk produced when raw milk sours and
          coagulates; "Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet eating
          some curds and whey"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  37 Moby Thesaurus words for "whey":
     beverage, blood, butter, buttermilk, certified milk, cheese,
     condensed milk, cream, dairy products, drink, fluid, fluid extract,
     fluid mechanics, ghee, half-and-half, heavy cream, hydraulics,
     hydrogeology, juice, latex, light cream, liquid, liquid extract,
     liquor, margarine, milk, nonfat dry milk, oleo, oleomargarine,
     raw milk, sap, semiliquid, skim milk, sour cream, water,
     whipping cream, yogurt