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Who would not thinke it a ridiculous thing to see a lady 
milk-sugar and some salts. Cheese is prepared by coagu- milk-and- Water (milk'and-wa'ter), a. Insipid, Who would not thinke it a ridiculous thi 
lating milk with rennet, allowing the whey to separate, 1:1.,, ,;iu HihitpH wJtli' wnt-pr- VIPTIPB wpalr- in ner milke-house with a veluet gown? 
and adding salt to the curd. The specific gravity of both "* e ter fJJS 1Ce ^ WeaK ' Puttenham, Arte of Eng. 
characterless; wishy-washy. [Colloq.] 
cow's and human milk is about 1.030. Human milk is al- 
ways alkaline, cow's milk either alkaline or acid, while 
the milk of carmvora is always acid. Milk represents a 
complete or typical food, in which all the constituents 
necessary for maintaining the life and growth of the body milk-blotch (milk bloch), n. 
Poesie, iii. 24. 
milkily (mil'ki-li), adv. With a milky appear- 
What slays a veteran may well lay & milk-and-water bout- an(Je f^ the m ' anner of milk 
Keo is low. 
are present. In rare instances milk, in greater or less 
adult^mman ma e ie reted ** ^ mammal T &**** ot the 
C Reade Cloister and Hearth xrvi. 
An eruption of 
milkiness (mil'ki-nes), n. 1. The state of be- 
jfore wine, I would twere mine ; 
Milke taken after, is poisons daughter. 
Quoted in Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), Index, p. 100. 
She bath'd her body many a tune 
In fountains flll'd with milk. 
Queen Eleanor's Fall (Child's Ballads, VII. 297). 
ing milky, or of resembling milk in quality or 
appearance. 
All nebulre naturally seemed to him (Herschel) to be but 
stellar clusters, so distant as to cause the individual stars 
to disappear in a general milkiness or nebulosity. 
Newcomb and Holden, Astron., p. 458. 
Hence 2. Blanduess; mildness; softness. 
numerous minute vesicles on a red surface, on 
the faces of infants, in some cases extending 
to the neck and breast. The vesicles break, and dis- 
charge a viscid fluid, which becomes incrusted in yellow- 
ish or greenish scabs, forming, as they extend, a kind of 
mask. It is a form of vesicular eczema. Also called milk- 
crust or milk-scab. 
milk-can (milk'kan), >i. A large can for carry- 
ing milk to market or to customers. 
<S. Anything resembling milk in appearance, milk-car (milk'kar), . A special form of box Jy new companion poured out his compi 
taste, etc., as the juice of the cocoanut and the freight-car with end platforms and passenger- makin ^ of mood. T. C. Grattan. 
sap of certain plants (see latex). car springs, used for the transportation of milk milking (mil'king), n. [Verbal n. of milk, r.] 
Thoo [squills] that in hillesgrowe or places colde in cans. [U.S.] 1. The act of drawing milk. 2. The milk so 
milk-COOler (milk'ko"ler), (i. An apparatus obtained at one time. 3. In racing slang, the 
Would I could share the balmy, even temper, 
And milkiness of blood. Dryden, Cleomenes, i. 1. 
Have litel i m^-i, 
tor cooling fresh milk uy 
At tne time when the contents of the berry [wheat] are L 
in the condition technically known as milk. water. 
Ure, Diet., IV. 153. milk-crust (milk'krust), 
3. The spat before it is discharged from an oys- btoteh. 
ter. 4. A slight cloudy opacity occurring in 
some diamonds. 
of ic or cold 
Same as milk- 
Cloudy imperfections known in the trade as "milk" or 
"salt" Ure, Diet., II. 24. 
Blue milk, (a) Milk deprived of its cream ; skimmed 
milk. It has a faint bluish tinge. [Colloq.] (6) Milk which 
has undergone a special fermentation caused by a microbe, 
Bacterium cyanogenum, which causes it to assume a blue 
color. Bristol nHllr, a mixed beverage of which sherry 
is the chief ingredient 
Plenty of brave wine, and above all Bristol milk. 
Pepys, Diary. 
A rich brewage made of the best Spanish wine, and cel- 
ebrated over the whole kingdom as Bristol milk. 
Macaulay, Hist. Eng., iii. 
Condensed tntllr, milk preserved by the addition of sugar 
with or without other ingredients, and subsequent reduc- 
tion by evaporation to a hah* or a fourth of its bulk, some- 
times even to dryness. Fairy's milk, a peculiar milky 
secretion produced by the mammary glands of infants for 
some days after birth. In mlllr in the milk, milky; 
containing the spat, as oysters ; containing a white juice, 
as wheat before the grains harden. Milk of almonds, 
an emulsion prepared by rubbing blanched almonds with 
gum arable, sugar, and water. Milk of lime, slaked lime 
suspended in water : so called as resembli "" ' 
'kur), n. A system of medical 
treatment by means of a diet of milk, 
milk-damet (milk 'dam), n. A wet-nurse; a 
foster-mother. 
Then her owne mylckdame in byrth soyl was breathles 
abyding. Stanihurst, JSneid, iv. 681. 
(milk'den-tish"gn), n. See 
milk-duct (milk'dukt), n. The duct, or any one 
of several ducts, which conveys milk from the 
place of its secretion in the mammary gland 
through the nipple to the exterior; a galac- 
tophorous duct. 
milken (mil'kn), a. [< ME. milken (f), < AS. 
"mylcen, milcen, of milk, < meolc, milk : see milk, 
n.,and-e 2 .] 1. Consisting of milk. [Rare.] 
The remedies are to be proposed from a constant course 
of the Milken diet. Sir W. Temple. 
2. Milky ; resembling milk. 
She having with a pretty paleness, which did leave 
milken lines upon her rosy cheeks, paid a little duty to 
human fear. Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, iv. 
at 8hort 
chance, or from which 
he is to be withdrawn, 
with the object of bet- . 
ting against him. Krik?s 
Guide to the Turf. 
milking-stool (mil'king- 
stol), n. A stool used to 
sit on while milking a 
COW. The stool in common 
use has three legs. In Swit- 
zerland one is used consisting 
of a disk which can be strapped 
to the person, with a sharpened 
or pointed prop about a foot 
long. 
milking-time (mil'king- 
tim), n. The time of day, especially about sun- 
set, at which cows or other milch animals are 
usually milked. 
I think it is now about making-time; and yonder they 
be at it. /. Walton, Complete Angler, p. 170. 
milking-tube (mirking-tub), . A perforated 
tube of silver which is inserted in the milk- 
duct of a cow's teat, to overcome the muscular 
contraction, and thus facilitate the flow of milk 
:-stool. Canton 
erne. 
inded in water: so called as resembling milk in ap- .,, ^ ' milk-kinshiD (milk'kin"shiDl n The kinshin 
^^^^.s^^j^^^^^ 1 ^!^^^^^-^'^ ^"^^SSS^KtZ^.* ** 
L'S milk, a milky or curdy secretion of the crop of 
pigeons of both sexes, upon which they feed their young 
for some time by disgorging or regurgitating it into their 
mouths. Red milk, milk which has assumed a red color 
from the growth of a chromogenic fungus, Micrococctis milker (mil'ker), n. 
proditjioius. Sugar of milk. Same as lactose. Whole 
milk, milk with all its cream. [Eng.] Yellow milk, 
milk which has assumed a yellow color, due to a coloring 
matter produced by a microbe, Bacterium synxanthum. 
milk (milk), v. t. [< ME. milken, < AS. meolcian ... 
= OFries. melka (= Icel. mjolka = Sw. mjolka ly. 3. A cow or other animal that gives milk: milk-leg (milk'leg), n. Same as pMcgmasia 
Way. 
I said thine eyes were stars, thy breasts the milken-way 
Sir P. Sidney (Arbor's Eng. Garner, I. 564). 
1. One who milks. 
His kine, with swelling udders, ready stand, 
And, lowing for the pail, invite the milker's hand. 
Dryden, tr. of Virgil's Georgics, il. 764. 
2. An apparatus for milking cows mechanical- 
arislng f ron adoption or fostering. 
We find among the Arabs a feeling about milk-kinship so 
well established that Mohammed's law of forbidden de- 
grees gives it all the effects of blood-relationship as a bar 
to marriage. W. P. Smith, Kinship and Marriage, p. 149. 
milk-ky(milk'ki'),n.j>J. Milch cows. [Scotch.] 
And I'll gi' thee ane o' my best millc-ky, 
To maintain thy wife and children three. 
Dick o- the Cow (Child's Ballads, VI. 78). 
dolens. See phleqmasia. 
= Dan. malke), draw milk, give milk, < meolc, usually with a qualifying term. [Colloq.] , 
milk: see milk, n., where an earlier form of the Inferior cows will require to be weeded out, and the DjHkless (milk'les), a. [< milk, n., + -less.'] 
verb is mentioned.] 1. To press or draw milk utmost attention must be paid to breeding good milkers. Without milk; specifically, in bo t., not sup- 
from the breasts or udders of : as, to milk a cow. Quarterly Rev., CXLV. 323. plied with or producing milk, a character of 
The lew may not milike hiscattell, nor eate of the milke milk-factory (milk'fak // to-ri), n. See the quo- high importance in agaricinous fungi. 
l hat !l p v r cu f ^?. a Chri8t _ ian to m * 'hem. except tation. Gills [of Sussula] nearly equal, milkiest, rigid, brittle, 
Factories, as explained by Canon Bagot, in a paper read w "h an acute edge, 
at the recent Dairy Conference in Ireland, are of three Cooke, Handbook of Brit Fungi, p. 217. 
he first buy it, but at his owne price. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 205. 
Thou wilt not find my shepherdesses idly piping on 
.*n nn^ ].., *_-,_ tl l-j * r r i 
oaten reeds, but milking the kine. 
2f. To suck. 
kinds, distinguished by him as milk factories, creameries, milk-livered (milk'liv"erd), a Timid 
an ^, b _ u _ ttCT J^ ri , e ^, Inth ?. m ?V OT ^.. whi ? ha '-be- ardlv: white-livered. 
Gay, Shepherd's Week, Proeme. coming"common'inlhr8oiith"of'lreTand, the'whokmUk ardlv ' white 
I have given suck, and know 
How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me. 
Shak., Macbeth, i. 7. 55. 
3. Figuratively, to drain the contents or the 
strength from; exhaust gradually: as, to milk 
fl, fni>Tlfl' TM1TKIP * t.Hp Ortll VlQO V\f}fvn lll.i//.,!*/ nf n* 
is purchased from the farmers, the price paid lately being 
4d. to 4Jd. a gallon, and the separated milk, after the 
, 
That bear'st a cheek for blows, a head for wrongs. 
cream has been extracted by the'mechanical cream sepa- Shak., Lear, iv. 2. 50. 
rator, is taken back by the farmers, at Id. to 2d. a gallon, milk-madget (milk'maj), n. A milkmaid. 
for the feeding of pigs. Quarterly Re,., CXLV. 306. shall I now , lyke a castawajr mac!madgei 
" ee milk-vat. On mye woers formoure be fawning? 
Stamhurst, JEneid, iv. 672. (Davies.) 
, 
a friend's purse ; the soil has been milked of its milk-fever (milk'f e'ver), n. A name applied to 
fertility. [Obsolete or colloq ] ll g ht feverish attacks coming on shortly after milkmaid (milk'mad), n. A woman who milks 
And to ayd the kynge In hys right must thecommons be ? hildw rth, and coinciding more or less with the cows or is employed in a dairy. 
milked till they bleede agayne. Tyndale, Works, p. 365. beginning or lactation. The milkmaid singeth blithe. 
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This three year I have milked their hopes. 
B. Jomon, Volpone, i. i. 
4. In racing slang, to bet against, as an owner 
. 
milk-fish (milk'fish), n. A clupeoid fish, Cha- 
nos salmoneus. See Chanos. 
(milk'ful), a. [< milk, 
Milton, L'Allegro, 1. 65. 
milkman (milk'man), .; pi. milkmen (-men). A 
+ -/7.] man who sells milk ; especially, one who goes 
against his horse when the horse is to be with- At>ound ing or overflowing with milk; fertile; from door to door serving milk to families, 
drawn, or cannot win, or is not to be allowed to ' 
win. 5. In teleg., to draw part of the current 
from (a wire) through an instrument without 
fruitful. 
O Milk-full Vales, with hundred Brooks indented. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Decay. 
cutting the wire ; read a message by placing an milk-glass (milk'glas), n. Same as cryolite 
induction apparatus close to (the wire). glass (which see, under cryolite). 
The rapidity and simplicity of the means by which a milk-globule (milk'glob'ul), n. One of the 
numerous small highly refractive oil-globules . 
floating in the milk-plasma. The white color and milfc-mirror (milk mir"or), n. Certain marks 
opacity of milk are due to the milk-globules, which reflect on tne udder and perineum of the cow, eon- 
the light. They consist of fat or butter, surrounded by a sisting of spots and lines on which the hair 
rery thin envelop of casein. grows upward (the hair on other parts growing 
hej),M. A shrub or small tree, --" - 
Tirucalli, native in Africa, and nat- 
wire could be milked without being cut or put out of cir- 
cuit struck the whole of the party. 
Prescott, Elect. Invent., p. 108. 
6f. To supply with milk; feed with milk. 
Norished was Terry fuetly to ryght 
That she full ofte hym raid [dressed] and dight, 
Chaufed, milked, and rechauf ed again. 
Bom. of Partenay (B. E. T. S.), 1. 4024. 
For lyche a moder she can cherishe, 
And mylken as doth a norys. Ram. of the Rose. 
milk-abscess (milk'ab"ses), n. An abscess of 
the female breast arising during lactation. 
milk-meat (milk'met), n. Pood consisting of 
or made with milk, as cheese, butter, etc. 
The help which fasting does to prayer cannot be served 
by changing flesh into flsh, or milk-meats into dry diet. 
Jer. Taylor, Holy Living, iv. 5. 
Abstaining from flesh and milk-meats on Friday. 
-Y. Bailey, tr. of Colloquies of Erasmus, p. 274. 
downward), supposed to indicate, by their form, 
size, and direction, the characters of the cow 
which is very hard, and durable when not exposed to wet, is . m ".|f 
valuable for gunpowder-charcoal. Its milky juice is an milk-mite (ni'lk mtt), II. See cheese- ill it<\ 
milk-molar (milk'mo // lar), H. One of the 
A dairy. grinders or back teeth of the milk-dentition. 
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Indian specific for syphilis. 
milk-nouse (milk nous), . 
