Definition of Rennit
Ren"net (r?n"n?t), n. [F.
rainette, reinette, perhaps fr. raine a tree
frog, L. rana, because it is spotted like this kind of frog.
Cf. Ranunculus.] (Bot.) A name of many different
kinds of apples. Cf. Reinette. Mortimer.
Ren"net, n. [AS. rinnan,
rennan, to run, cf. gerinnan to curdle, coagulate.
√11. See Run, v.] The inner, or
mucous, membrane of the fourth stomach of the calf, or other young
ruminant; also, an infusion or preparation of it, used for coagulating
milk. [Written also runnet.]
Cheese rennet. (Bot.) See under
Cheese. -- Rennet ferment (Physiol.
Chem.), a ferment, present in rennet and in variable quantity
in the gastric juice of most animals, which has the power of curdling
milk. The ferment presumably acts by changing the casein of milk from
a soluble to an insoluble form. -- Rennet
stomach (Anat.), the fourth stomach, or abomasum,
of ruminants.
Ren"net (r?n"n?t), n. [F.
rainette, reinette, perhaps fr. raine a tree
frog, L. rana, because it is spotted like this kind of frog.
Cf. Ranunculus.] (Bot.) A name of many different
kinds of apples. Cf. Reinette. Mortimer.
Ren"net, n. [AS. rinnan,
rennan, to run, cf. gerinnan to curdle, coagulate.
√11. See Run, v.] The inner, or
mucous, membrane of the fourth stomach of the calf, or other young
ruminant; also, an infusion or preparation of it, used for coagulating
milk. [Written also runnet.]
Cheese rennet. (Bot.) See under
Cheese. -- Rennet ferment (Physiol.
Chem.), a ferment, present in rennet and in variable quantity
in the gastric juice of most animals, which has the power of curdling
milk. The ferment presumably acts by changing the casein of milk from
a soluble to an insoluble form. -- Rennet
stomach (Anat.), the fourth stomach, or abomasum,
of ruminants.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- An enzyme used as the first step in making cheese, to curdle the milk and coagulate the casein in it, derived by soaking the fourth stomach of a milk-fed calf in brine.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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