† ruen Obs.
Also 6 rewene, rowen, 7 ruin.
[Of obscure origin: cf. ruening.]
1. = rennet n.1 1.
| 1558 Warde Alexis' Secr. i. i. (1568) 28 b, Take the ruen of a Hare, and having frayed and consumed it in hote water, give it the woman to drinke. 1565 Cooper Thesaurus, Coagulum, a curde or creame: the ruen of a beast that turneth milke. 1609 Bible (Douay) Ps. lxvii. comm., Ruen turneth liquide milke into curde, and so into cheese. |
2. ruen cheese, a soft kind of cheese.
| 1539 Elyot Cast. Helthe (1541) 67 b, Mylke hot from the udder,..ruen chese, sweete almondes. 1542 Boorde Dyetary xii. (1870) 266 Yet besyde these .iiii. natures of chese, there is a chese called a rewene chese. 1565 Cooper Thesaurus, Caseus musteus, greene cheese, or softe & rowen cheese. 1655 Moufet & Bennet Health's Improv. 131 We may feed liberally of ruin Cheese. |