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rennet noun1. LME.
[Prob. dial. repr. of unrecorded Old English form rel. to RUN verb. Cf. RUNNET.]
= BEESTINGS. Only in LME.
Curdled milk from the abomasum of an unweaned calf or other ruminant, containing rennin and used in curdling milk for cheese, junket, etc. Also, a preparation of the inner membrane of the abomasum similarly used. L15.
A plant or other substitute for animal rennet used to curdle milk, esp. lady's bedstraw, Galium verum. Cf. cheese-rennet s.v. CHEESE noun1. L16.
Comb.: rennet-bag the abomasum of a calf used as rennet.