milkrack

A series of shelves in a dairy to hold milk-pans. milk-shake, A beverage composed chiefly sweetened and flavored milk violently shaken up by means of a mechanical device. milk-sickne , s. Vet. Med.: A fatal spasmodic disease, peculiar to some parts of the western United States, said to be owing to astringent salts contained in the soil and waters of these regions. It attacks cattle, but is often communicated to those who drink the milk or eat the beef of animals affected with it. ( Bart lett .)