Cream

1. A delicacy of several kinds prepared for the table from cream, etc., or so as to resemble cream.
2. A cosmetic; a creamlike medicinal preparation.
3. To take off the best or choicest part of.
4. The part of any liquor that rises, and collects on the surface.
5. To form or become covered with cream; to become thick like cream; to assume the appearance of cream; hence, to grow stiff or formal; to mantle.
6. The rich, oily, and yellowish part of milk, which, when the milk stands unagitated, rises, and collects on the surface. It is the part of milk from which butter is obtained.
7. The best or choicest part of a thing; the quintessence; as, the cream of a jest or story; the cream of a collection of books or pictures.
8. To furnish with, or as with, cream.
9. To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.