▪ I. creaming, vbl. n.
(ˈkriːmɪŋ)
[f. cream v. + -ing1.]
a. The action of the verb cream; formation of cream or froth; skimming off of the cream.
| 1596 [see b below]. 1831 Scott Abbot Introd., A kind of milk, which will not stand above a single creaming. 1888 W. C. Russell Death Ship II. 251 The creaming and foaming of the waters flung from the vessel's sides. |
b. attrib. and Comb., as creaming-dish, creaming-pan, utensils used in the dairy.
| 1596 Spenser F.Q. vii. vi. 48 Some wicked beast unware That breakes into her Dayr' house, there doth draine Her creaming pannes. 1858 [See creamer]. 1886 All Y. Round 14 Aug. 35 The old-fashioned shallow creaming-pan. |
c. The coming together of the droplets or particles of an emulsion or suspension into a cream; the bringing about of this process, esp. in rubber latex by the addition of a creaming agent (rather than by centrifuging).
| 1903 J. G. McIntosh tr. Seeligmann's Indiarubber 56 Coagulation by creaming after doubling the volume of the latex with water. 1914 H. Brown Rubber 69 This behaviour, which is termed ‘creaming’,..is only shown by certain latices. 1937 Ann. Rep. Progr. Rubber Technol. i. 12 The latex to which the creaming agent is added is allowed to stand..for about 48 hours. 1946 Albright & Lees in J. Alexander Colloid Chem. VI. xvi. 349 Concentration of latex may be accomplished commercially by one of three important methods: namely, centrifuging, creaming, or evaporating. 1950 Kirk & Othmer Encycl. Chem. Technol. V. 711 One of the most used methods of comparing the stabilities of a series of emulsions is to observe the rate of creaming and/or sedimentation. 1954 Jirgensons & Straumanis Short Textbk. Colloid Chem. xvi. 382 Centrifugation usually produces only creaming, and the concentrated emulsion must then be treated chemically in order to induce coalescence. |
▪ II. ˈcreaming, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That creams; forming into froth or foam, mantling.
| 1825 New Monthly Mag. XIV. 227 His animal spirits are more bounding, more humorous, more ‘creaming’ (to borrow a metaphor from champaigne). 1861 Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. xli, The lieutenant filled the long-necked glass..with the creaming mixture. |