whewer (hwuer)

[ In Norfolk, according to Ray, whewers . C. Swains on, Brit. Birds (1885), p. 155. wheyl (hwa), n. [Early mod. E. also whay ; also dial. whig ; whey , whei , hwei , we ye = MD. wey , D. wei , also MD. huy , hoy , hui = LG. wey , waje , hei , heu , whey; root unknown. Cf. W. chwig , whey fermented with sour herbs; chwig , sour, fermented.] The serum of milk; that part of milk which remains fluid after the proteids have been coagulated by rennet as in cheese-making, or by an acid as in the natural souring of milk. Whey is often mixed with wine, or flavored with herbs, spices, etc., and used as a cooling beverage. The pined Fisher or poor-Daiery-Renter That liues of whay , for forfeiting Indenture. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 3. Down to the milke-house, and drank three gla es of whey. Pepys , Diary, II. 398. Alum whey, the whey formed in the coagulation of milk by powdered alum. Whey cure, the treatment of certain diseases by means of the internal administration of quantities of whey, sometimes combined with baths in the same liquid. This "cure" is usually practised in connection with drinking and bathing in mineral waters at European spas.- Wine whey. See wine. 5 wheyes (4 years old), £6. H. Hall , Society in Elizabeth an Age, App. 1. whey-beard (hwa'berd), n. The whitethroat, Sylvia cinerea. Macgill Macgillivray ; Montagu . See cut under whitethroat . [Local, British.] wheyey (hwa'i), a. [ Bacon , Nat. Hist., § 43. whey-face ace (hw (hwā fās), n. [ face1 .] A face white or pale, as from fear; also, a person having a white or pale face, or looking pale from fright. Go, prick thy face, and over-red thy fear. What soldiers, whey face? Shak., Macbeth, v. 8. 17.