▪ I. ˈrunnet1 Now dial.
Also 5–6 runnett, 9 urnet, Sc. ronnet.
[var. of rennet n.1, with the vowel of run v.]
1. = rennet n.1 1. ? Obs.
| 1471 Ripley Comp. Alch. ii. ix. in Ashm. (1652) 137 So doth our Runnett by kynde curd our Mylke. 1563 T. Hill Art Garden. (1593) 80 The mints put into milke, will not suffer the milke to curd, although the runnet bee put into it. 1600 Surflet Countrie Farme i. xiv. 91 The way to curdle it [milk], is to mingle therewith of the runnet, of a lambe, kidde, or hare. 1686 Plot Staffordsh. 388 The Runnet of Ranton..made of the innermost membran of a Calves Stomack or Mawe. 1741 Comp. Fam.-Piece i. ii. 124 Cool it till 'tis but Blood-warm, and then put in a Spoonful of Runnet. 1784 Twamley Dairying Exemp. 15 Many a Dairy-maid..has no consistent idea how the Runnet operates, or perhaps of the different states of the Curd. 1808 Mitchill & Miller Med. Repository V. 140 The runnet, or gastric ferment taken from the stomach of a calf,..will assist in restoring it. 1867 Rock Jim an' Nell xi, Laist Zinday wi' a drap o' runnet I jist a junket made. |
| fig. a 1661 Fuller Worthies, Somerset iii. (1662) 17 The Unity and Amity of those Female Neighbours..giveth the better Runnet and Relish to their handiwork. |
2. = rennet n.1 2. ? Obs.
| 1678 Salmon Pharm. Lond. 59 Gallium..is used for Rennet or Runnet to make cheese with. 1736 Pegge Kenticisms (E.D.S.) 44 Runnet, the herb gallium; called in Derb. ‘erning’; anglicè cheese-runnet. 1758 Mrs. Delany Life & Lett. (1861) III. 474 The plant you call Runnet or Rundle grass,..she thinks it is the jagged spearwort. |
3. attrib., as runnet-bag, runnet-plant, runnet-pot.
| 1686 Plot Staffordsh. 95 The Women also put it in their Runnet pots, it makeing (as they say) the best Cheese. 1707 Mortimer Husb. (1721) I. 248 Give her to eat some Oats..or the small End of the Runnet-Bag. 1784 Twamley Dairying Exemp. 104, I have heard of a Plant called the Runnet-plant;..I am informed the Jews make all their Cheese with it. 1824 Mactaggart Gallovid. Encycl., Ronnet Bags, the rennets for coagulating milk. |
▪ II. † ˈrunnet2 Obs. rare.
Also -ett.
[f. run v.]
A stream or small river; a runnel.
| 1601 Weever Mirr. Mart. i. ii, This crawling runnet, hony-bubbling fountaine.., Descending from the Diamond-rockie mountaine. 1646 Providence Rec. (1892) I. 80 The Runnett called Papaquinapauge River. 1704 Ibid. (1894) V. 184 A small Walnut tree neare a small Runnett comeing downe the hill. |
▪ III. runnet
obs. variant of rennet n.2