rare. [f. prec. vb.] The act or product of curdling: † a curd (obs.).

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a. 1591.  H. Smith, Serm. (1622), 444. There is a kind of downe or curdle upon Wisedom.

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1611.  Cotgr., Mattes, curds, or curdles.

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1821.  Clare, Vill. Minstr., I. 30. Tracing the … winding fountains to their infant bed, Marking each curdle boil and boil away.

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