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auffj perceived that the child feemed to fwallov/ fome- 
what from the nipple ; on which he begged leave of his 
mother to try if die had not milk. The experiment fuc- 
ceeded : the youth drew milk from that fame bread; from 
which he had been weaned above twenty years, and which 
had been unaccuflomed to any for feventeen or eighteen 
years before ; the good woman then continued to fuckle 
her grand-child in earned. Her daughter, at the end of 
two years, brought forth another child; on which the 
grandmother weaned the fil'd, and fuckled the latter; 
which flie had done for the lad two years, and continued 
to do. And this infant, in Dr. S.’s prefence, took the 
nipple with as much eagernefs, and deeming delight, as 
he ever perceived in a child of two years old; and at it 
plainly performed the aftions of fuftion and deglutition. 
The two children, both girls, are, as £0 conditution, fuch 
as he could widi to the deared friend; plump and firm 
in.defh; in complexion cleanly, fair, and healthy; and in 
temper brifk and fprightly. When this good woman 
came to town, which was near two years before, her milk 
abounded to that degree in both breads, that, to convince 
the unbelieving, die would frequently fpout it above a 
yard from her; a particular which, among others, the 
good man and woman of the houfe, and others of the 
neighbourhood, likewife allured him of.” _ Phil. Tranf. 
for 1739. 
Milk has lately been difcovered to be a very good fol- 
vent of camphor, and of the gum-redns, a3 adafoetida, 
gum ammonia, guaiacum, and myrrh; alfo rofin and 
pitch, and balfam of Tolu and Peru in fmall quantities. 
See Ed. Med. Journal, vol. vii. p. m. 
A late French journal fpeaks of milk as a remedy for 
the poifon of certain mufhrooms ; but, before we trud to 
fuch a remedy, experiments ought to be made on beads 
with fuch mufhrooms exhibited with and without milk. 
To MILK, v.a. To draw milk from the bread by the 
hand ; as, To milk cows or goats.—To fuck : 
I have given fuck, and know 
How tender ’tis to love the babe that milks me. Shaktjp. 
MILK, a river of Jamaica, which runs into the fea 
•four miles north-wed of Maccaree Bay. 
MILK CO'VE, a creek of Ireland, on the fouth-ead 
fide of the entrance into Rofs Bay, near Gaily Head. 
MILK-FE'VER, /! A fever frequently attacking women 
the fecond or third day after being delivered, occafioned 
probably by fome circumdance attending the fecretion of 
the milk into the breads. For the treatment and cure, fee 
’ the article Parturition. 
MILK HA'VEN, a bay on the wed coad of Ireland, 
and county of Sligo, a little to the fouth of Donegal Bay. 
MILK of LIME and of SULPHUR. The name of 
milkis given to fubdances very different from milk properly 
fo called, and which refemble milk only in colour. Such 
is water in which quicklime has been daked, which ac¬ 
quires a whitenefs from the fmall particles of the lime 
being fufpended in it, and has hence been called the miUt 
of lime. Such alfo is the dilution of liver of fulphur, or 
alkaline fulphuret, when an acid is mixed with it, by 
-which white particles of fulphur are made to float in the 
liquor. 
MIL'K-LIVERED, adj. Cowardly; timorous; faint¬ 
hearted : 
Milk-livered man 1 
That bear’d a cheek for blows, a head for wrongs. Shahefp. 
MIL'K-MAID, f. A woman employed in the dairy.— 
A lovely milk-maul he began to regard with an eye of 
mercy. Addifon. 
When milk is dry’d with heat, 
In vain the milk-maid tugs an empty teat. Dryden's Virg\ 
MIL'K-MAN, f. A man who fells milk, 
MIL'K-PAIL, A veflel into which cows aie milked. 
-—That very iubdance which lad week was grazing in the 
field, waving in the milk-pail, or growing in the garden, 
is now become part of the man,, Watts. 
Vql. |jiV; No. 1050, 
m i l. mi 
MII/K-PAN, f. Veflel in which milk is kept in the 
dairy.—Sir Fulke Grevil had much and private accels to' 
queen Elizabeth, and did many men good ; yet he would 
fay merrily of himfelf, that he was like Robin Goodfellow: 
for when the maids fpilt the milk-pans, or kept any racket, 
they would lay it upon Robin; lb what tales the ladies 
about the queen told her, or other bad offices that they 
did, they would put it upon him. Bacon. 
MILK-PAR'SLEY. See Solinum. 
MILK-POR'RIDGE, or Milk-pottage, f. Food 
made by boiling milk with water and oatmeal.—For 
breakfad and fupper, milk and milk-pottage are very fit for 
children. Locke. 
MILK RIV'ER, a river of Canada, which runs into 
lake Erie in lat. 42.28. N. Ion. 82. 22. W. 
MIL'K-SCORE, f. Account of milk owed for, fcored 
on a board.—He is better acquainted with the milk-fcors 
than his deward’s accounts. Addifon. 
MIL'K-TOOTH, f. Milk-teeth are thofe fmall teeth 
which come forth before when a foal is about three months 
old, and which lie begins to cad about two years and a. 
half after, in the fame order as they grew; Barrier's Died.. 
MILK-THIS'TLE. See Carduus. 
MILK-TRE'FOIL. See Cytisus. 
MILK of VEG'ETABLES. For the fame reafon that 
milk of animals may be confidered as a true animal emul- 
flon, the emullive liquors of vegetables may be called ve¬ 
getable milks. Accordingly emuliions made with al¬ 
monds are commonly called milk of almonds. But befides 
this vegetable milk, which is in fome meafure artificial, 
many plants and trees contain naturally a large quantity 
of emulfive or milky juices. Such are lettuce, fpurge, 
fig-tree, and the tree which furniflies the.eLi.flic American 
refin. The milky juices obtained from all thele vegeta¬ 
bles derive their whitenefs from an oily matter, mixed and 
undiflolved in a watery or mucilaginous liquor. Mod 
refinous gums were originally fuch milky juices, which 
afterwards become folid by the evaporation of their more 
fluid and volatile parts. 
MIL'K-VETCH. See Astragalus. 
Jictjlard MILK-VETCH. See Phaca. 
MIL'K-WEED, or Wart-wort. See Euphorbi\,- 
MILK-WHI'TE, adj. White as milk : 
She a black iilk cap on him began 
To fet, for foil of his milk-white to ferve. Sidney. - 
Then will I raife aloft the milk-white rofe. 
With whole fweet fmell the air dial! be perfum’d. Shahefp „ 
The bolt of Cupid fell. 
It fell upon a little wefiern flower; 
Before milk-white, now purple with love’s wound ; 
And maidens call it love in idlenels. Shakefpeare. 
A milk-white goat for you I did provide ; 
Two milk-white kids run frilkingby her fide. Drydeu. 
MIL'K-WOMAN, f. A woman whofe bufinefs is to 
ferve families with milk.—Even your milk-woman and 
your nurlery-maid have a fellow-feeling. Arbutknot. 
MIL'K-WOOD. See Bignonia. 
MIL'K-WORT. See Polygala and Euphorbia. 
Sea M IL'K-WORT. See Glaux. 
MIL'KBOURN, a river in Northumberland, which runs 
into the Tyne near Wilatn. 
MIL'KEN, adj. Confiding of milk.—The remedies are 
to be propofed from a conflant courfe of the mitken diet, 
continued at lead a year. Temple. 
MIL'KER, f. An animal that yields milk. A perfoa 
that milks animals: 
His kine with fweiling udders ready Aand, 
And lowing for the pail inyite the milker's hand. Dry dm. 
MIL'KIN-ESS, J. Softnefs like that of milk ; approach 
to the nature of milk.—The faltnefs and oylinefis of the 
blood abforbing the acid of the chyle, it loie$ its r/iUki » 
nej’s. L'lcyer on the Humours. 
Would I could ihare thy balmy even temper, 
And milhinejs of blood. 'Dryden's Cleomenes. 
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