Word Meanings - CURDLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To change into curd; to coagulate; as, rennet causes milk to curdle. Thomson. 2. To thicken; to congeal. Then Mary could feel her heart's blood curdle cold. Southey.

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• THICKENING
  Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker.
• BLOODSUCKER
  Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species. 2. One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer. Shak. 3. A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an
• BLOODSHEDDER
  One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer.
• HEARTWOOD
  The hard, central part of the trunk of a tree, consisting of the old and matured wood, and usually differing in color from the outer layers. It is technically known as duramen, and distinguished from the softer sapwood or alburnum.
• HEART
  A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood. Why does my blood thus muster to my heart! Shak. Note: In adult mammals and birds, the heart is four-chambered, the right auricle and ventricle
• COAGULATE
  Coagulated. Shak. (more info) coagulate, fr. coagulum means of coagulation, fr. cogere, coactum, to
• BLOODULF
  The European bullfinch.
• CHANGEFUL
  Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. Pope. His course had been changeful. Motley. -- Change"ful*ly, adv. -- Change"ful*ness, n.
• BLOODROOT
  A plant , with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called also puccoon, redroot, bloodwort, tetterwort, turmeric, and Indian paint. It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstock is used as a stimulant
• HEARTBROKEN
  Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved.
• CONGEALABLE
  Capable of being congealed. --Con*geal"a*ble*ness, n.
• HEARTGRIEF
  Heartache; sorrow. Milton.
• HEARTEN
  1. To encourage; to animate; to incite or stimulate the courage of; to embolden. Hearten those that fight in your defense. Shak. 2. To restore fertility or strength to, as to land.
• HEARTDEEP
  Rooted in the heart. Herbert.
• COULD
  Was, should be, or would be, able, capable, or susceptible. Used as an auxiliary, in the past tense or in the conditional present.
• BLOODY-MINDED
  Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; bloodthirsty. Dryden.
• CHANGEABLY
  In a changeable manner.
• BLOODSHEDDING
  Bloodshed. Shak.
• HEARTENER
  One who, or that which, heartens, animates, or stirs up. W. Browne.
• BLOODINESS
  1. The state of being bloody. 2. Disposition to shed blood; bloodthirstiness. All that bloodiness and savage cruelty which was in our nature. Holland.
• HOLLOW-HEARTED
  Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within. Syn. -- Faithless; dishonest; false; treacherous.
• 'SBLOOD
  An abbreviation of God's blood; -- used as an oath. Shak.
• WHITE-HEART
  A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.
• SWEETHEART
  A lover of mistress.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• REEXCHANGE
  To exchange anew; to reverse .
• PIGEON-HEARTED
  Timid; easily frightened; chicken-hearted. Beau. & Fl.
• EXCHANGE EDITOR
  An editor who inspects, and culls from, periodicals, or exchanges, for his own publication.
• DISHEARTENMENT
  Discouragement; dejection; depression of spirits.