1. cream - Noun
2. cream - Adjective
3. cream - Verb
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.
The part of any liquor that rises, and collects on the surface.
A delicacy of several kinds prepared for the table from cream, etc., or so as to resemble cream.
A cosmetic; a creamlike medicinal preparation.
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.
To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.
To take off the best or choicest part of.
To furnish with, or as with, cream.
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise. Robert Frost
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate. Thornton Wilder
It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it. Zora Neale Hurston
He who has money can eat ice cream in hell. Lebanese Proverb
The cat with cream on her whiskers should have a good excuse ready. Russian Proverb
A fly does not mind dying in coconut cream. Swahili Proverb