Milk

Milk, milk, v.t. to squeeze or draw milk from: to supply with milk.—n. a white liquid secreted by female mammals for the nourishment of their young: a milk-like juice of certain plants.—adj. Milk′en, consisting of milk, or like milk.—ns. Milk′en-way (Bacon), the milky-way, the galaxy; Milk′er, one who milks: a machine for milking cows: a cow that gives milk; Milk′-fē′ver, a fever accompanying the secretion of milk shortly after childbirth.—adv. Milk′ily.—ns. Milk′iness; Milk′ing, the amount of milk drawn at one time; Milk′ing-stool, a stool on which the milker sits while milking; Milk′ing-time; Milk′ing-tube, a perforated tube inserted in a cow's teat to let the milk flow without pressing the udder; Milk′-kin′ship, the kinship arising from fostering.—adj. Milk′-liv′ered (Shak.), white-livered: cowardly.—ns. Milk′maid, a woman who milks: a dairymaid; Milk′man, a man who sells milk, esp. from door to door; Milk′-mō′lar, one of the grinders or back teeth in young animals, early shed and replaced by another; Milk′-porr′idge, porridge made with milk instead of water; Milk′-punch, an excellent but very heady drink made of milk, rum or whisky, sugar, and nutmeg; Milk′-sick′ness (U.S.), a kind of malignant fever affecting cattle, also men; Milk′sop, a piece of bread sopped or soaked in milk: an effeminate, silly fellow; Milk′-this′tle, the lady's thistle; Milk′-tooth, one of the first fore-teeth of a foal: one of the first teeth of a child; Milk′-tree, a tree yielding a milk-like, nourishing juice, as the cow-tree of South America; Milk′-vetch, a plant sometimes cultivated as food for cattle; Milk′-walk, a milkman's route.—adj. Milk′-warm, warm as new milk.—ns. Milk′-weed, a general name for plants of the genus Asclepias, from their milky juice; Milk′-wort, a genus of handsome flowering plants, containing a milk-like juice.—adj. Milk′y, made of, full of, like, or yielding milk: soft: gentle.—n. Milk′y-way (astron.), the galaxy, a broad, luminous zone in the sky, caused by the light of innumerable fixed stars. [A.S. meolc, milk; Ger. milch, milk.]