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n. (Physiol.) The milk secreted just before, or directly after, the birth of a child or of the young of an animal; colostrum. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A milkshake made with malt powder; also called simply a malted. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. A powder made of dried milk and malted cereals. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ AS. meoluc, meoloc, meolc, milc; akin to OFries. meloc, D. melk, G. milch, OHG. miluh, Icel. mjōlk, Sw. mjölk, Dan. melk, Goth. miluks, G. melken to milk, OHG. melchan, Lith. milszti, L. mulgere, Gr. 'ame`lgein. √107. Cf. Milch, Emulsion, Milt soft roe of fishes. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Physiol.) A white fluid secreted by the mammary glands of female mammals for the nourishment of their young, consisting of minute globules of fat suspended in a solution of casein, albumin, milk sugar, and inorganic salts. “White as morne milk.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) A kind of juice or sap, usually white in color, found in certain plants; latex. See Latex. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An emulsion made by bruising seeds; as, the milk of almonds, produced by pounding almonds with sugar and water. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Zool.) The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster. [ 1913 Webster ]

Condensed milk. See under Condense, v. t. --
Milk crust (Med.), vesicular eczema occurring on the face and scalp of nursing infants. See Eczema. --
Milk fever. (a) (Med.) A fever which accompanies or precedes the first lactation. It is usually transitory. (b) (Vet. Surg.) A form puerperal peritonitis in cattle; also, a variety of meningitis occurring in cows after calving. --
Milk glass, glass having a milky appearance. --
Milk knot (Med.), a hard lump forming in the breast of a nursing woman, due to obstruction to the flow of milk and congestion of the mammary glands. --
Milk leg (Med.), a swollen condition of the leg, usually in puerperal women, caused by an inflammation of veins, and characterized by a white appearance occasioned by an accumulation of serum and sometimes of pus in the cellular tissue. --
Milk meats, food made from milk, as butter and cheese. [ Obs. ] Bailey. --
Milk mirror. Same as Escutcheon, 2. --
Milk molar (Anat.), one of the deciduous molar teeth which are shed and replaced by the premolars. --
Milk of lime (Chem.), a watery emulsion of calcium hydrate, produced by macerating quicklime in water. --
Milk parsley (Bot.), an umbelliferous plant (Peucedanum palustre) of Europe and Asia, having a milky juice. --
Milk pea (Bot.), a genus (Galactia) of leguminous and, usually, twining plants. --
Milk sickness (Med.), See milk sickness in the vocabulary. --
Milk snake (Zool.), a harmless American snake (Ophibolus triangulus, or Ophibolus eximius). It is variously marked with white, gray, and red. Called also milk adder, chicken snake, house snake, etc. --
Milk sugar. (Physiol. Chem.) See Lactose, and Sugar of milk (below). --
Milk thistle (Bot.), an esculent European thistle (Silybum marianum), having the veins of its leaves of a milky whiteness. --
Milk thrush. (Med.) See Thrush. --
Milk tooth (Anat.), one of the temporary first set of teeth in young mammals; in man there are twenty. --
Milk tree (Bot.), a tree yielding a milky juice, as the cow tree of South America (Brosimum Galactodendron), and the Euphorbia balsamifera of the Canaries, the milk of both of which is wholesome food. --
Milk vessel (Bot.), a special cell in the inner bark of a plant, or a series of cells, in which the milky juice is contained. See Latex. --
Rock milk. See Agaric mineral, under Agaric. --
Sugar of milk. The sugar characteristic of milk; a hard white crystalline slightly sweet substance obtained by evaporation of the whey of milk. It is used in pellets and powder as a vehicle for homeopathic medicines, and as an article of diet. See Lactose. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Milked p. pr. & vb. n. Milking. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To draw or press milk from the breasts or udder of, by the hand or mouth; to withdraw the milk of. “Milking the kine.” Gay. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have given suck, and know
How tender 't is to love the babe that milks me. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To draw from the breasts or udder; to extract, as milk; as, to milk wholesome milk from healthy cows. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To draw anything from, as if by milking; to compel to yield profit or advantage; to plunder. Tyndale. [ 1913 Webster ]

They [ the lawyers ] milk an unfortunate estate as regularly as a dairyman does his stock. London Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]

To milk the street, to squeeze the smaller operators in stocks and extract a profit from them, by alternately raising and depressing prices within a short range; -- said of the large dealers. [ Cant ] --
To milk a telegram, to use for one's own advantage the contents of a telegram belonging to another person. [ Cant ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To draw or to yield milk. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. (Elec.) To give off small gas bubbles during the final part of the charging operation; -- said of a storage battery. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A type of edible mushroom (Lactarius delicioso).
Syn. -- Lactarius delicioso. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Consisting of milk. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who milks; also, a mechanical apparatus for milking cows. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A cow or other animal that gives milk. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of milk; abounding with food. [ R. ] “Milkful vales.” Sylvester. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a milky manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State or quality of being milky. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. White-livered; cowardly; timorous. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A woman who milks cows or is employed in the dairy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Milkmen A man who sells milk or delivers it to customers. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. A frothy drink of milk and flavoring and sometimes fruit or ice cream, shaken together or blended in a blender.
Syn. -- milk shake, shake. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

. (Veter., Med.) A peculiar malignant disease, occurring in parts of the western United States, and affecting certain kinds of farm stock (esp. cows), and persons using the meat or dairy products of infected cattle. Its chief symptoms in man are uncontrollable vomiting, obstinate constipation, pain, and muscular tremors. Its origin in cattle has been variously ascribed to the presence of certain plants in their food, and to polluted water. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A piece of bread sopped in milk; figuratively, an effeminate or weak-minded person. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

To wed a milksop or a coward ape. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) A leguminous herb (Astragalus glycyphyllos) of Europe and Asia, supposed to increase the secretion of milk in goats. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The name is sometimes taken for the whole genus Astragalus, of which there are about two hundred species in North America, and even more elsewhere. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a wagon for delivering milk. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Bot.) Any plant of the genera Asclepias and Acerates, abounding in a milky juice, and having its seed attached to a long silky down; silkweed. The name is also applied to several other plants with a milky juice, as to several kinds of spurge. Its leaves are a favorite food source for the larvae of the monarch butterfly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A genus of plants (Polygala) of many species. The common European Polygala vulgaris was supposed to have the power of producing a flow of milk in nurses. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The species of Campanula, or bellflower, are sometimes called milkwort, from their juice. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Consisting of, or containing, milk. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pails high foaming with a milky flood. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Like, or somewhat like, milk; whitish and turbid; as, the water is milky. “Milky juice.” Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Yielding milk. “Milky mothers.” Roscommon. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Mild; tame; spiritless. [ 1913 Webster ]

Has friendship such a faint and milky heart? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Milky Way. (Astron.) See Galaxy, 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) A low, fleshy perennial herb (Glaux maritima) found along northern seashores. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) Any kind of spurge (Euphorbia); -- so called from its acrid milky juice. [ 1913 Webster ]