[-ING1.] The action of the vb. CURDLE; also concr.

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1611.  Florio, Quagliata, a curdling or congealing.

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1620.  Venner, Via Recta, vii. 154. They inhibit the crudling of milke in the stomacke.

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1851.  Nichol, Archit. Heav., 107. Nebulosities … having within them curdlings, as they seem at first, separate massive clusters.

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