Obs. Also 6–8 ren(n)ing. [OE. rynning coagulum: see RUNNING.] = CHEESE-RENNET.
1578. Lyte, Dodoens, IV. lxxv. 539. Gallion … we may also name it … Cheese running, or our Ladies bedstraw.
1597. Gerard, Herball, II. cccclxiv. 1126. Ladies Bed straw or Cheese Renning.
1668. Wilkins, Real Char., 80.
1736. Bailey, Houshold Dict., 502. Among several things that will coagulate milk … the plant call’d Cheeserening, or Yellow Ladies Bed-straw, is used commonly about Nantwich.
