[-ING1.] The action of the vb. CURDLE; also concr.
1611. Florio, Quagliata, a curdling or congealing.
1620. Venner, Via Recta, vii. 154. They inhibit the crudling of milke in the stomacke.
1851. Nichol, Archit. Heav., 107. Nebulosities having within them curdlings, as they seem at first, separate massive clusters.