milk vessel (milkves"el)

In bot., one of the tubes in which a milky fluid is secreted; a laticiferous ve el. milk-vetch (milk' vech), n. 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 (milk'wak), n. A round or beat for selling milk; a milkman's route. [Eng.] "My father had a milk - walk , " he said, and when he died I was without money, and had nothing to do. Mayhew , London Labour and London Poor, I. 485. milk-warm (milk'wârm), a . 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, xxxii. ( Davies .) milkweed (milk'wed), n. 1. A general name for plants of the genus Asclepias , somewhat especially for A. Cornuti , the most common American species: so called from their milky juice. The bast of A. Cornuti forms a tough textile fiber. The swamp-milkweed, A. in carn at a , is another common species, with rather handsome flesh-colored flowers. Also called silkweed . 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, Peucedanum palustre. - Green milkweed, a plant of the genus A cerates and perhaps Asclepiodora, both closely allied to Asclepias. milk-white (milk'hwit), a. [ IMG:content-0636.png:[blocks in formation] genus Polygala, formerly imagined to increase the milk of nurses. In Great Britain the common milkwort is P. vulgar is- also called cro - flower, gang flower, and proce ion and rogation - flower, in allusion to its time of blooming and use. 2. A seaside plant, Glaux maritima, with the same supposed property. Also called sea milkwort. Noctes Ambrosian a, Sept., 1832. [Rare.] milk stone (milk's ton), n. 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 ve els were not made to resist the action of fire. juice. Some plants, upon breaking their ve els, yield a milky Arbuthnot , Aliments. The pails high foaming with a milky flood. Pope , Iliad, xvi. 780. And milkier every milky sail On winding stream or distant sea. milk-sugar (milk's hug"är), n. Same as lactose. milk-tester (milk'tester), n. A lactometer or lac to densimeter. See tester. 2. Yielding milk. milk-thistle (milk' this "l), n. A thistle-like plant, Silybum ( Carduus ) Marianum, native in Tennyson , In Memoriam, cxv. Perhaps my pa ion he disdains, And courts the milky mothers of the plains. Roscommon. mill 3. Full of milt or spawn, as oysters: a trade use.-4. Soft; mild; timorous; effeminate. Has friendship such a faint and milky heart, It turns in le than two nights? Shak ., T. of A., iii. 1. 57. Thy milky meek face makes me sick with hate! Shelley, The Cenci, ii. 1. Milky quartz. Same as milk - quartz. milky-tailed (mil'ki-tald), a. Having milky color on the caudal fin: specific in the phrase milky -tailed shiner, the slender silver fin, Cliola galacturus, a cyprinoid fish abounding in mountain streams of the Ohio valley and southward. Milky Way (mil'ki wā). [Formerly also mil ken - way; cf. D. melkweg = G. milchweg = Sw. (rare) mjölkväg = Dan. melkevei.] The Galaxy. See Galaxy, 1. That Milky Way which down Heav'ns Mountain flows Its beauteous smoothne to her footsteps ows. J. Beaumont, Psyche, iii. 34.