milk woman

[Eng. milk, and woman.] A woman who carries about milk for sale. "Even your milk woman and your nursery-maids have a fellow-feeling."- Arbuthnot: Hist. of John Bull. milk-wood, s. [Eng. milk, and wood.] Botany: 1. Pseudolmedia , formerly Brosimum spurium , an evergreen shrub growing in Jamaica; but Jamaica Milkwood is Sapium laurifolium . 2. Sideroxylon inerme.