mylck, mylk

[A. S. * milc, meolc, meoluc; cogn. with Dut. melk; Icel. mjólk; Dan. melk; Sw. mjölk; Goth. miluks; Ger. milch milk; melken (pa. t. molk )=to milk; O. H. Ger. melchan =to milk; cf. Lat. mulgeo =to milk; Gr. amelgō.] I. Ordinary Language : 1. & 2. In the same sense as II. 1. & 2. 3. The white juice of certain plants. 4. An emulsion, made by bruising seeds; as, the milk of almonds. II. Technically : 1. Food, .: The fluid secreted by all female mammals for the nourishment of their young. As an alimentary substance, it may be regarded as a perfect food. It consists e entially of a solution of sugar, albuminous and saline matter, and holds in suspension a certain proportion of fat in the form of very minute globules. The same constituents are found in the milk of all the mammals, but they differ considerably in the proportion in which they are present in each kind. Mare's milk contains a larger proportion of sugar, while that of the ewe is very much richer in albuminous and composition more evenly adjusted. The non-fatty solids of cow's milk, which consist of casein, albumin, sugar, and mineral salts, vary from about 8 to 11 per cent., and the fat from 2 to 7 per cent.; 9 parts of the non-fatty solids consist on the average of 3 parts of casein, 1 of albumin, 4.2 of milk sugar, and 8 of mineral salts. The mineral matter consists chiefly of phosphates of lime and potash, with a little chloride of sodium. Milk spontaneously of a soldier; pertaining or relating to the science fatty constituents, the milk of the cow having its of war; becoming or suitable to a soldier; soldierly, warlike, martial. IMG:content-1204.png:[blocks in formation] Roman Law : A nuncupative will by which a sol dier might dispose of his goods without the forms and solemnities required by the law in other cases. [NUNCUPATIVE.] Some states of the Union recog nize this order of will.