1. [n]  a solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk
2. [n]  erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced in United States
3. [v]  wind onto a cheese, as of yarn
4. [v]  used in the imperative (get away, or stop it); "Cheese it!"

1. \Cheese\, n. [OE. chese, AS. c[=e]se, fr. L. caseus, LL.
   casius. Cf. {Casein}.]
   1. The curd of milk, coagulated usually with rennet,
      separated from the whey, and pressed into a solid mass in
      a hoop or mold.
   2. A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in
      the form of a cheese.
   3. The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of the dwarf mallow
      ({Malva rotundifolia}). [Colloq.]
   4. A low courtesy; -- so called on account of the cheese form
      assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending
      the skirts by a rapid gyration. --De Quincey. --Thackeray.
   {Cheese cake}, a cake made of or filled with, a composition
      of soft curds, sugar, and butter. --Prior.
   {Cheese fly} (Zo["o]l.), a black dipterous insect ({Piophila
      casei}) of which the larv[ae] or maggots, called skippers
      or hoppers, live in cheese.
   {Cheese mite} (Zo["o]l.), a minute mite ({Tryoglyhus siro})
      in cheese and other articles of food.
   {Cheese press}, a press used in making cheese, to separate
      the whey from the curd, and to press the curd into a mold.
   {Cheese rennet} (Bot.), a plant of the Madder family ({Golium
      verum}, or {yellow bedstraw}), sometimes used to coagulate
      milk. The roots are used as a substitute for madder.
   {Cheese vat}, a vat or tub in which the curd is formed and
      cut or broken, in cheese making.
   

2. \
   A kind of soft, unpressed cream cheese made in the vicinity
   of Camembert, near Argentan, France; also, any cheese of the
   same type, wherever made.
   

(A.S. cese). This word occurs three times in the Authorized Version as the translation of three different Hebrew words: (1.) 1 Sam. 17:18, "ten cheeses;" i.e., ten sections of curd. (2.) 2 Sam. 17:29, "cheese of kine" = perhaps curdled milk of kine. The Vulgate version reads "fat calves." (3.) Job 10:10, curdled milk is meant by the word.