Meaning
1. In a general sense, any part of a liquor that separates from the rest, rises and collects on the surface. More particularly, the oily part of milk, which, when the milk stands unagitated in a cool place, rises and forms a scum on the surface, as it is specifically lighter than the other part of the liquor. This by agitation forms butter.
2. The best part of a thing; as the cream of a jest or story.
Cream of lime, the scum of lime water; or that part of lime which, after being dissolved in its caustic state, separates from the water int he mild state of chalk or limestone.
Cream of tartar, the scum of a boiling solution of tartar.
The purified and crystalized supertartrate of potash.
CREAM, v.t.
1. To skim; to take off cream by skimming.
2. To take off the quintessence or best part of a thing.
CREAM, v.i.
1. To gather cream; to flower or mantle.
2. To grow stiff, or formal.
