milk-molar 
corresponding to and replaced by a preraolar 
of the permanent dentition. 
milk-nurse (milk'ners), H. A wet -mine. 
My inithcr was a glide milk-nurse, 
And a gudo nonrice was she. 
Karl Richard (Child's Ballads, 111.396). 
milk-pail (milk'piil), . A pail for holding 
milk ; specifically, the wooden or tin vessel com- 
monly used in milking. 
Very fractious, and apt to kick over the milk-pail. 
ii Her.. C I.X V. Nil. 
milk-pan (milk'pan), H. A large shallow pan 
in which milk is kept to allow the cream to rise. 
milk-pap (milk'pap), n. A teat or nipple. 
[Kare.] 
Let not the virgin's cheek 
Make soft thy trenchant sword ; for those milk paps, 
That through the window-bars bore at men's eyes, 
Are not within the leaf of pity writ. 
Shak., T. of A., Iv. 8. 115. 
milk-parsley (milk 'pars Mi), H. A Europe- 
an umbelliferous plant, I'eucedunum palustre, 
abounding with an acrid milky juice ; also, Se- 
1 1 n n in raruifolium of the same family, some- 
times distinguished as caraway-leafed milk- 
/iarxley. 
milk-pea (milk'pe), . See Galactia, 2. 
milk-plasma (milk'plaz'ma), w. A clear 
slightly opalescent fluid obtained by filtering 
milk through clay filters or membranes. 
milk-porridge (milk'por'ij), n. Porridge made 
with milk instead of water. 
milk-pump (milk'pump), n. An instrument for 
drawing milk from the breasts; a breast-pump. 
milk-punch (milk'punch'), n. A drink made 
of milk, spirits (usually brandy, rum, or whisky), 
sugar, and nutmeg. 
"I don't know," replied Mr. Pickwick, with equal care- 
lessness; "it smells, I think, like milk-punch." 
Dukent, Pickwick, I. 
milk-quartz (inilk'kwarts'), n. A variety of 
quartz of a milk-white color. Also called milky 
quartz. 
milk-scab (milk'skab), u. Same as milk-blotch. 
milk-selet, n. [ME.] A milk-pail. 
Multrale, a mylk sele. Nominale MS. (Halliwell,) 
milk-shake (milk'shak'), . A beverage com- 
posed of milk and carbonated water with the 
addition of a flavoring, mixed by being vigor- 
ously shaken up and down by hand or by a 
small machine. [Recent, U. S.] 
milk-sick (milk'sik), a. Infected with milk- 
sickness. [Colloq.] 
Trembles and milk-sickness were generally hard to 
locate by strangers in the particular "settlement," as a 
"milk sick farm " was not desirable as a place of residence, 
and, if known to be such, was rendered almost unsalable. 
Buck's Handbook of Med. Sciences, V. 9. 
milk-Sickness (milk'sik'nes), . A malignant 
disease, occurring in some parts of the United 
States, which affects certai n kinds of farm stock, 
and also persons who eat the flesh or dairy pro- 
ducts of cattle SO infected. The symptoms are vomit- 
Ing, purging, extreme nervous agitation, etc. From the 
peculiar tremors that characterize it, it is also called the 
trembles. 
milk-snake (milk'snak), n. A handsome and 
harmless serpent, Ophibolus eximius, of the fam- 
ily Colubrida;, common in many parts of the 
United States. It attains a length of about 3 feet ; the 
coloration is yellowish-gray, with a dorsal series of 60 or 
more elliptical chocolate black-bordered blotches, and on 
each side two other alternating series of blotches ; the ab- 
domen Is yellowish-white with square black blotches. It Is 
also called chicken snake and thtinder-and-liyhtniny snake. 
milksop (milk'sop), . [< ME. milksoppe; < 
milk, n., + sop, .] 1. Apiece of bread sopped 
in milk. [Rare.] 2. A soft, effeminate, girl- 
ish man; one who is devoid of manliness: a 
term of contempt. 
Alias! she seith, that ever I was shape 
To wed a milksop or a coward ape. 
- Chaucer, Prol. to Monk's Tale, L 22. 
'TIs now come to that pass that he Is no gentleman, a 
very milk-sop, a clown, of no bringing up, that will not 
ilriuk. Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 143. 
milksopism (milk'sop-izm), n. [< milksop + 
-isf .] The character of a milksop ; effeminacy. 
\ui-ti-s Ambrosiana; Sept., 1832. [Rare.] 
milkstone (milk 'ston), . A white calcined 
flint, often found in connection with prehistoric 
remains. They are supposed to have been repeatedly 
heated in order to be thrown into water to make it boil, 
at a time when pottery vessels were not made to resist the 
action of tire. 
milk-sugar (milk'shug"iir), n. Same as lrtn*f. 
milk-tester (milk'tes'te'r), H. A lactometer or 
laetodensimeter. See tester. 
milk-thistle (milk' this '!), . A thistle-like 
plant. Sili/hiiiit (('uriliiim') Marianum, native in 
7M 
southern Europe, somewhat cultivated and 
spontaneous elsewhere. The leaves are va- 
riegated with white. Sometimes called tndy'n- 
thistle. 
milk-thrush (nflk'thrush), n, Inpathol. See 
aphtha. 
milk-tie (milk'tl), w. Same as milk-kinship. 
The strength of the foster-feeling, the milk-tie, among 
the Scotch Highlanders is a familiar instance of a mode 
of regarding relationship very different from that prevalent 
among us. SirJ. Lubbock, Orig. of Civilisation, p. 145. 
milk-tooth (milk'toth), n. [= D. melktand = 
( I . iiiilrh;ah = Sw. mj(ilktund=D&n. melketand.] 
A tooth of the milk-dentition ; a temporary or 
deciduous tooth, which is shed and replaced. A 
child has '20 milk-teeth. 
milk-tree (milk'tre), . 1. Same as cote-tree 
(Krosimum galactodendron). 2. A tree of one of 
several other genera, as Tabernxmontona utilix, 
of British Guiana Jamaica milk-tree, or mOk- 
wood, Pseudolmedia spuria. Madagascar milk-tree, 
Cerbera Odallam. See Cerbera. 
milk-tube (milk'tub), . In hot., a laticiferous 
tube. 
milk-vat, milk-fat (milk'vat, -fat), n. [< ME. 
milk-fat, < AS. meolcfa-t (= D. MLG. melkvat = 
OHG. milichfaz, MHO. milch faz, G. milchfass = 
Sw. mjolkfat= Dan. melkefad), a vessel for milk, 
< meolc, milk, + fait, vessel: see/at 2 , rat.] A 
tank or tub into which milk is poured, espe- 
cially for coagulating with rennet, in the manu- 
facture of cheese. 
milk-vessel (milk'ves'el), n. In bot., one of 
the tubes in which a milky fluid is secreted ; a 
laticiferous vessel. 
milk-vetch (milk'vech), . A plant of the 
genus Astragalus: so called from a belief that 
these plants increased the secretion of milk in 
goats feeding upon them. 
milk-walk (rnilk'wak), . A round or beat for 
selling milk; a milkman's route. [Eng.] 
" My father had a mitt-walk," he said, and when he died 
I was without money, and had nothing to do. 
Mayhem, London Labour and London Poor, I. 486. 
milk-warm (milk' warm), . Warm as milk as 
it comes from the breast or udder. 
They had baths of cool water for the summer ; but In 
general they used It milk-warm. 
Smollett, France and Italy, xxxil. (Dames.) 
milkweed (milk' wed), . 1. A general name 
for plants of the genus Asclepias, somewhat es- 
pecially for A . Cornuti, the most common Amer- 
ican species: so called from their milky juice. 
The bast of A. Cornuti forms a tough textile fiber. The 
swamp-milkweed, -I. incarnata, la another common spe- 
cies, with rather handsome flesh-colored flowers. Also 
called sUkweed. 
2. A plant of the genus Euphorbia, especially 
E. corollata, the flowering or blooming spurge. 
See Euphorbia. 3. In Great Britain : (a) The 
sow-thistle, Sonchus oleraceus. (b) The milk- 
parsley, Peucedanitm palustre Green milkweed, 
a plant of the genus Acerates and perhaps Asclepiodnra. 
both closely allied to Asclepias. 
milk-white (milk'hwit), a. [< ME. milkwhit, 
melkichit, < AS. meolchwit, white as milk, < meolc, 
milk, + hwit, white.] White as milk. 
A little western flower, 
Before milk-while, now purple with love's wound, 
And maidens call It love-in-idleness. 
Shot., M. N. D., II. 1. 167. 
milk-woman (milk'wum'an), . A wet-nurse. 
[Scotch.] 
milkwood (milk'wud), H. A name of several 
trees of different genera, (a) The Jamaica milk 
tree, Pseudolmedia spuria. (b) A West Indian apocyna- 
ceoua shrub, llauwollia caneseens, called horny-leafed milk- 
iroorf. (c) A very milky euphorbiaceous tree, Sapium Lau- 
rocerasus (var. cilipticum), called Jamaica milkwood. 
milkwort (milk'wert), n. 1. A plant of the 
genus Polygala, formerly imagined to increase 
the milk of nurses. In Great Britain the common 
milkwort is P. vulgaris also called crost-JUncrr, gany- 
fiower, and procession- and rogation- jloicer, In allusion to 
Its time of blooming and use. 
2. A seaside plant, Glaux maritime, with the 
same supposed property. Also called sea- 
milkwort. 
milky (mil'ki), a. [< milk, n., + -yi.] 1. Con- 
taining, consisting of, or resembling milk: as, 
a nii/ky fluid; a milky color. 
Some plants, npou breaking their vessels, yield a milky 
juice. Arbuthnot, Aliments. 
The palls high foaming with a milky flood. 
Pope, Iliad, ivl. 780. 
And milkier every milky sail 
On winding stream or distant sea, 
Tfnnyson, In Memoriam. cxv. 
2. Yielding milk. 
Perhaps my passion he disdains, 
And courts the milky mothers of the plains. 
Roscommon. 
mill 
3. Full of milt or spawn, as oysters: a trad-- 
use. 4. Soft; mild; timorous; effeminat* . 
Has friendship such n faint and milky heart, 
It turns In less than two nights? 
Shak., T. of A.. IIL 1. 57. 
Thy milky meek face makes me sick with hate ! 
Shelley, The Cencl, II. I. 
Milky quartz. Same as milk-quartz. 
milky-tailed (mirki-tald), a. Having milky 
color on the caudal fin : specific in the phrase 
milky-tailed shiner, the slender silverfin, Clioln 
i/iilncluruy, a cyprinbid fish abounding in moun- 
tain streams of the Ohio valley and southward. 
Milky Way (mil'ki wa). [Formerly also wii- 
ken-icay; cf. D. melkweg = G. milchweg = Sw. 
(rare) mjiilkriiy = Dan. melknei.'] The Galaxy. 
See Galaxy, 1. 
That Milky Way which down Heav'ns Mountain flows 
Its beauteous smoothness to her footsteps ows. 
J. Beaumont, Psyche, 111. 34. 
mill 1 (mil), . [< ME. milk, meUe, mulle, mylle, 
earlier miln, milne, myln, mulne, < AS. mylen, 
myln = OFries. mole = D. molen, meitlen = 
MLG. mole, molle, LG. molen = OHG. tnvlin, 
muli, MHG. mule, mill, G. miihle = Icel. mylna 
= Sw. molla = Dan. molle = F. moulin = Sp. 
molino = Pg. moinho =It. mulino, < LL. molina, 
a mill, orig. I'em. of L. molimis, of a mill, < 
iiiii/ii, a millstone, pi. molte, a mill (also grains 
of spelt ground) (= Gr. p&n, a millstone, mill), 
< molere, grind, = Goth, malan = Icel. mala = 
OHG. malan = AS. malan, grind: see malm, 
mean, mold 1 , etc. From the L. mola are also E. 
mole 3 , mole*, molar, moline, etc., mullet?, etc.] 
1. A mechanical device for grinding grain for 
food. Ancient mills, and those still In use in uncivil- 
ized or half-civilized countries, are simple devices for rub- 
bing or pounding the grain, commonly two stones, one of 
which is m6ved 
upon the other by 
hand. The common 
modern mill con- 
sists essentially of 
two flat circular 
stones, one of which 
Is moved upon the 
other, and between 
which the grain Is 
triturated. The 
bedstone and run- 
ner are together 
called a nin o/ 
stones. In some 
mills the under 
stone is the runner. 
Suchamill Is called 
an "under-runner," 
while an "upper- 
runner" Is one like 
that shown In the 
cut. The bush, g. 
in the bedstone is 
fastened In Its 
place by wedges. 
The balance-rynd, 
Grindlng-mill. 
a, bedstone : />, runner ; f, step or ink : /", 
bridge-tree ; ft, eye : e. hoop; f, hopper; f. 
shoe ; r, tpout ; s. damsel : y, lighter-screw : 
3. husk. 
/, Is a curved bar which crosses the eye or central open- 
Ing of the runner on the under side at the margin of 
the eye and supports the stone. The supporting bear- 
ing of the balance-rynd is a central socket called a cock 
eye, and the supporting point of the 
spindle which flts the cockeye is 
called the cockhead. The spindle, 
balance-rynd, and runner-stone are 
raised or lowered by means of the 
bridge-tree and lighter-screw to ad- 
just the runner properly in relation 
to the bedstone. The hopper, p. re- 
ceives the grain to be ground, and de- 
livers it to the shoe, which is loosely 
supported, and kept constantly vi- 
brating by the rotation of the damsel, 
a sort of trundle-wheel, the trundles 
of which chatter against the shoe. 
Flour Is also made by cylinder-mills 
or roller-mills. The rollers act by 
crushing, by crushing and rubbing. 
as when they are caused to ran with 
different peripheral velocities, or by 
a cutting or scraping action, as when 
they are serrated and revolved in 
such manner that the cutting edges 
Grindlng-mttl. 
Farts around the 
spindle and eye : a, 
bedstone : A, runner ; f, 
bush ; h, spindle ; t, 
driver ; j, batance- 
rynd ; *, cockeye ; /. 
cockhead : ft, eye ; /, 
hopper ; y, shoe ; t, 
damsel. 
of one roller act toward the cutting edges of the other. 
Thou combrest bothe too & frende, 
Thi mylle hath groonde thi laste griste. 
Hymns to Viryin, etc. (E. E. T. 8.)i p. 74. 
Much water goeth by the mill that the miller knoweth 
not of. J. Heymod, Proverbs (1546X U. 5. 
Two women shall be grinding at the mill. Mat. rxiv. 41. 
2. A machine for grinding or pulverizing any 
solid substance. The word In this use Is generally in 
composition with a word denoting the purpose for which 
the mfll Is designed : as, paint mill, r/i/arte-mOr, cn/ee-mOl. 
One could see by the way he ground the coffee In the 
mitt nailed to the wall that he was reckless of the results. 
W. JT. Baker, New Timothy, p. 294. 
3. A machine which transforms raw material 
by a process other than grinding into forms fit 
for uses to which the raw material is unfitted. 
In this use also the word is generally in composition, a* 
