† wellcurds
(also weale, wel-),
obs. var. welled curds: see welled ppl. a.
| 1538 Elyot Dict., Schiston, the mylke that remayneth after that the mylke is sodden, whiche is callyd well courdes. 1565 Cooper Thesaurus, Schistum, weale cruddes. 1577 B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iii. 148 Of the Whay that commeth from the Cheese, being sodde with a soft fyre, tyl the fatnesse of the Cheese swym aloft, are made Welcurdes [Margin Wellcurds]. |