Middle English Dictionary Entry
crud n.
Entry Info
| Forms | crud n. Also crudde, cruide, cridde, curd. Pl. cruddes, crǒddes, curdes. |
| Etymology | Akin to crǒuden press, crowd. ME crud , cruid (N) may derive from remodeled forms of the p.ppl. of OE *crūdan, p. crēad, crudon. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Coagulated milk, clabber; curds, cottage cheese; -- usu. pl.; (b) a curd; (c) rennet or junket [as in L].
Associated quotations
a
- (a1399) Form Cury (Add 5016)p.68 : Take of cruddes and presse out þe wheyze.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)2.2501 : Aristeus fond out the vsage Off mylk & cruddis.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)105 : Curde: Coagulum.
- a1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(1) (Hrl 279)15 : Draw þe croddys þorw a straynoure.
- c1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(2) (Hrl 4016)73 : Take Mylke And make faire croddes there-of in maner of chese.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(1) (Med-L 136)252/814 : Take soure ale and mylk and do togedir..and take the cridde and lay to þe nayles to they be hole.
- a1475 Russell Bk.Nurt.(Hrl 4011)93 : Milke, crayme, and cruddes..close a mannes stomak.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)31a : A Cruyde: balducta, coagulum.
- a1500(?a1410) Lydg.CB (Lnsd 699)123 : Thouh I were fed with mylk & wastelbred, And swete cruddis brouht to my pasture.
- a1500 Hrl.1002 Gloss.(Hrl 1002)625 : Coagulum: curddys.
b
- c1390 PPl.A(1) (Vrn)7.269 : A fewe Cruddes [C 9.306: croddes] and Craym and a þerf Cake.
c
- (?a1390) Daniel *Herbal (Add 27329)f.206rb : Lepus siluestris: wode hare or feld hare .. His crudde is migthiest in comparacioun of alle oþere cruddes.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)6.142 : Alfresh the mylk is crodded now to chese With crudde of kyde, or lambe, other of calf.
2.
(a) Any coagulated or thickened substance; gatheren on (to a) ~, to coagulate, thicken; (b) dregs, lees; -- sg. or pl.
Associated quotations
a
- c1450 Med.Bk.(1) (Med-L 136)246/788 : Lat stand without mevynge till it gedre to a crudd, and do þen away the crudde.
- a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sln 1986)p.13 : Styr hit wele..Tyl hit be gedered on crud harde.
- c1500 Recipe MSS Hast.in HMC (Hnt HU 1051)424 : To mak brasyl water substancial in a crudde.
b
- c1450 Med.Bk.(2) (Add 33996)179 : Let syhe hem þorow a clene lynnen cloþ, þat alle þe croddes may leue aboue on þe cloþ, for þan hyt ys butter y claryfyed.
- ?a1475 Noble Bk.Cook.(Hlk 674)29 : Then leshe out the crud..and pour out the ceripe.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- ?c1400 PPl.Z (Bod 851)7.286 : Thenne haued Perus..Noythur ges ne grys, but to grene chesus, A wel, a potteful of wey ant welled croddes.
Note: Additional quot.
Note: Belongs to sense 1.(a).--per MLL
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- a1500 Trin-C.R.14.45 Recipes (Trin-C R.14.45) 138/4 : Covere þe colour with a faire cloþ and late hit stande til hit be gadered on a crudde inne þe maner of a possote.
- a1500 Hnt.HM.64 Artist.Recipes (Hnt HM 64) 278/27 : Put oute all softely the clere water, and in the bottome ye schall fynde the yellowe in the thicke croddis.
Note: Additional quots., sense 2.(a). New spelling (pl.) = croddis.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- ?c1400(1379) Daniel *Treat.Uroscopy (Roy 17.D.1)f.6vb (1.2) : Ryȝt as whei is wrongen & clensede and pressede oute fro þe mylke þrogh wirkyng and trauaylyng and þristyng out of þike matere, i. fro þe cloddres & þe clompres and þe cruddes, riȝt so þe vryn is pressede and wrongen and clensede out fro..þe clode and clompre of blode.
Note: Additional quot., sense 1.(a).
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. curd.