Word Meanings - CHURN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A vessel in which milk or cream is stirred, beaten, or otherwise agitated in order to separete the oily globules from the other parts, and obtain butter.

Related words: (words related to CHURN)

• CREAM-FACED
  White or pale, as the effect of fear, or as the natural complexion. Thou cream-faced loon. Shak.
• AGITATO
  Sung or played in a restless, hurried, and spasmodic manner.
• AGITATION
  1. The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being moved with violence, or with irregular action; commotion; as, the sea after a storm is in agitation. 2. A stirring up or arousing; disturbance of tranquillity; disturbance
• OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
  Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
• AGITATE
  1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly
• BUTTER-SCOTCH
  A kind of candy, mainly composed of sugar and butter. Dickens.
• CREAM-SLICE
  A wooden knife with a long thin blade, used in handling cream or ice cream.
• OBTAINABLE
  Capable of being obtained.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• CREAMINESS
  The quality of being creamy.
• BUTTERMAN
  A man who makes or sells butter.
• BUTTERFLY
  A general name for the numerous species of diurnal Lepidoptera. Note: Asclepias butterfly. See under Asclepias. -- Butterfly fish , the ocellated blenny of Europe. See Blenny. The term is also applied to the flying gurnard. -- Butterfly shell
• BUTTERWORT
  A genus of low herbs having simple leaves which secrete from their glandular upper surface a viscid fluid, to which insects adhere, after which the margin infolds and the insects are digested by the plant. The species are found mostly in the North
• BUTTERMILK
  The milk that remains after the butter is separated from the cream.
• CREAM
  1. The rich, oily, and yellowish part of milk, which, when the milk stands unagitated, rises, and collects on the surface. It is the part of milk from which butter is obtained. 2. The part of any liquor that rises, and collects on the surface.
• BUTTER
  1. An oily, unctuous substance obtained from cream or milk by churning. 2. Any substance resembling butter in degree of consistence, or other qualities, especially, in old chemistry, the chloridess, as butter of antimony, sesquichloride
• BUTTERBUMP
  The European bittern. Johnson.
• OTHER
  andar, Icel. annarr, Sw. annan, Dan. anden, Goth. an, Skr. antara: cf. L. alter; all orig. comparatives: cf. Skr. anya other. sq. 1. Different from that which, or the one who, has been specified; not the same; not identical; additional; second
• ORDERLY
  1. Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan. Milton. 2. Observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an orderly community. 3. Performed in good
• OTHERNESS
  The quality or state of being other or different; alterity; oppositeness.
• NOTOTHERIUM
  An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
• ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
  Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n.
• SMOTHER
  Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
• ISOTHEROMBROSE
  A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.
• WINTER-BEATEN
  Beaten or harassed by the severe weather of winter. Spenser.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• EFFLAGITATE
  To ask urgently. Cockeram.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• UNMOTHERED
  Deprived of a mother; motherless.
• ISOTHERMAL
  Relating to equality of temperature. Having reference to the geographical distribution of temperature, as exhibited by means of isotherms; as, an isothermal line; an isothermal chart. Isothermal line. An isotherm. A line drawn on a diagram
• EEL-MOTHER
  The eelpout.
• ISOTHERMOBATHIC
  Of or pertaining to an isothermobath; possessing or indicating equal temperatures in a vertical section, as of the ocean.
• MOTHER-OF-PEARL
  The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl.
• MISORDER
  To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.