(A.S. cese). This word occurs three times in the Authorized Version as the translation of three different Hebrew words:

(1.) 1 Samuel 17:18, "ten cheeses;" i.e., ten sections of curd.

(2.) 2 Samuel 17:29, "cheese of kine" = perhaps curdled milk of kine. The Vulgate version reads "fat calves."

(3.) Job 10:10, curdled milk is meant by the word.

Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

1. (n.) The curd of milk, coagulated usually with rennet, separated from the whey, and pressed into a solid mass in a hoop or mold.

2. (n.) A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the form of a cheese.

3. (n.) The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of the dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia).

4. (n.) A low courtesy; -- so called on account of the cheese form assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration.