whey

[A. S. hwæg; cogn. with Dut. hui, wei; cf. Wel.chwig whey fermented with sour herbs.] 1. Ord. Lang.: The serum or watery part of milk separated from the more thick or coagulable part, especially in the proce of making cheese, in which proce the thick part is termed curd, and the thin whey. Various preparations of whey are medicinally used as sudorifics. "In sight of the fields and castles which they regarded as their own, they had been glad to be invited by a peasant to partake of his whey and his potatoes."- Macaulay : Hist. Eng . , ch. xii. IMG:content-0821.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0822.png:[blocks in formation] "Wretched he that quaffs Such wheyish liquors." J. Philips: Cider, i. whey-ish-ne , s. [Eng. wheyish ; -ne .] The quality or state of being wheyish. *whib-len, *whib-lin, s. [Etym. doubtful.] A eunuch. "God's my very life, he's a very mandrake, or else (God ble us) one of those whiblins ; and that's worse." Dekker : Honest Whore.