caseous, a.
(ˈkeɪsɪəs)
[f. L. case-us cheese + -ous.]
1. Of the nature of cheese, cheesy.
| 1661 Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. 3 The Asses [milk] having more serum and lesse of the caseous, or cheesy matter. 1781 Kerr in Phil. Trans. LXXI. 380 [It] forms a coagulum with the caseous part of the milk. 1881 Daily Tel. 23 Feb., Not Parmesan, but some inexpensive and wholesome caseous product. |
b. humorously. Abounding in cheese; fond of cheese.
| 1807–8 Syd. Smith Plymley's Lett. Wks. 1859 II. 168/1 A universal state of disaffection among that caseous and wrathful people [the Welsh]. 1859 Sala Tw. round Clock (1861) 271 Parma, in which caseous Italian city, etc. |
2. Pathol. Resembling cheese in appearance.
| 1753 Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v., Cataracts are by some divided into milky, and caseous, differing only in the degree of hardness or consistence. 1804 Abernethy Surg. Observ. I. 43 Cysts..containing a kind of caseous substance. 1878 T. Bryant Pract. Surg. I. 5 The formation of caseous deposits..in the bones, joints, skin, or lungs. |