milch (milch)

[ melc, melce, meolce (= LG. melke = OHG. MHG. melch, G. melk = Icel. milkr, mjólkr ), giving milk, 21. Milky: said of plants. Hem [plants] beth melch in veer novel les grene Beth nought to feede. Palladius , Husbondrie (E. E. T..S.), p. 99. 31. Yielding liquid; distilling drops (namely, tears). [Poetical and rare.] The instant burst of clamour that she made, Unle things mortal move them not at all, Would have made milch the burning eyes of heaven, And pa ion in the gods. Shak., Hamlet, ii. 2. 540. milch-wencht (milch'wench), n. A wet-nurse. Such exceptions were made against all but one country milch-wench, to whom I was committed, and put to the breast. Steele , Tatler, No. 15. milch-woman (milch' wum"an), n. A wet[Rare.] nurse. We find not above fifty-one to have been starved, excepting helple Infants at Nurse, being caused... by carele ne , ignorance, and infirmity of the Milch -women. J. Graunt, quoted in Ribton-Turner's Vagrants and [Vagrancy, p. 168. Burke , Abridg. of Eng. Hist., ii. 2. Migratory animals, those animals whose instincts prompt them to remove from one place to another at the regularly recurring changes of season or of their natural means of subsistence. - Migratory cells, white blood corpuscles which, by means of the amœboid movement of their protoplasm, penetrate the walls of the blood-ve els and wander independently in the ti ues, particularly the connective ti ue. - Migratory locust. See locust1, 1. -Migratory pigeon, the pa enger-pigeon. See Ecto pistes, and cut under pa enger -pigeon. migrenet, n. A Middle English form of megrim. Mihelme et, n. A Middle English form of Michael mas . mihrab (mih-räb'), n. [Ar., praying-place.] A niche, or sometimes merely a decorated slab, in one of the interior walls of a mosque, marking the direction of Mecca, to which the faithful ought to turn in prayer. In the niche a copy of the Koran is usually kept, and in front of it the imam stands when he leads the congregation in prayer. mihtt, mihtit. Obsolete forms of might1, mighty. mikado (mi-käʼdō), n. [Jap., lit. 'exalted gate' (like the Sublime Porte, applied to the Sultan of Turkey), 1. Milk-giving; abounding in milk. There milchy goats come freely to the paile. Sir T. Hawkins , tr. of Odes of Horace, Epode, xvi. ( Davies .) 2. Milky, as an oyster. mild (mild), a. [ mild , milde , myld , milde = OS. mild i = OFries. milde = D. mild = MLG. LG. milde = OHG. milt i , MHG. milte , G. mild, milde , mild, = Icel. mildr = Sw. Dan. mild , mild, gentle, = Goth. * milds (or mildeis ?) (in comp. unmilds , without affection); perhaps = L. moll is (if that be taken as reduced from orig. * molvis , * moldvis ), soft, gentle (see moll2 , mol lify, etc.). Otherwise akin to OBulg. milů, compa ionate, Ru . miluii, amiable, kind, Pol. Bohem. mily , dear, = Lith. melas , dear: cf. Gr. μείλιχος, kind, Skt. ✓ mard , be gracious, pity.] 1. Po e ing softne or gentlene of disposition; soft-mannered; kindly disposed; good-tempered. So gainly a god and of goste mylde ! Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), ii. 728. O, he was gentle, mild , and virtuous! Shak., Rich. III., i. 2. 104. mildew 2. Exercising gentlene in conduct or action; not harsh or unfeeling; considerate; conciliatory. To smooth his fault I should have been more mild. Shak., Rich. II., i. 3. 240. 3. Marked by softne or kindne ; gentle in character, method, or appearance; manifestter, method, ing or expre ing mildne ; mollifying; tranquil; placid: as, mild words or manners; a mild rebuke; a mild aspect. Rushing sound Of onset ended soon each milder thought. Milton , P. L., vi. 98. Ah! dearest friend! in whom the gods had joined The mildest manners with the bravest mind. Pope , Iliad, xxiv. 963. 4. Gentle or moderate in force, operation, or effect; not harsh or irritating; emollient; bland; genial: as, mild medicine; mild winds; a mild remedy. The folding gates diffused a silver light, And with a milder gleam refresh'd the sight. Add is on , tr. of Ovid's Meta morph., ii. 5. Moderate in quality or degree; of mitigated force; weak in kind; free from harshne or roughne ; hence, not hard to endure, manage, etc.: as, mild fruit; mild di ipation; mild efforts. This horrour will grow mild , this darkne light. Milton , P. L., ii. 220. 0! pa more innocent, in infant state, To the mild limbo of our father Tate. Pope, Dunciad, i. 238. IMG:content-0618.png:[blocks in formation] Modena, Roman, and Sard in i an [oak] are what the workmen call milder in character - that is to say, they are easier to work, and a little le hard. Laslett, Timber, p. 84. 6. Hence, new; not having gained the taste that comes by keeping: said of malt liquors: as, mild ale.-7. See the quotation. A body which can have its form permanently changed without any flaw or break taking place is called mild . Encyc. Brit ., VI. 312. [ Mild forms the first element in a number of compounds of obvious signification: for example, mild - flavored , mild looking, mild -mannered, mild - spirited , mild - tempered .]Mild steel. See steel . - To draw it mild. See draw. Syn. Bland , Soft , etc. (see gentle ), tranquil, soothing, mildt (mild), n. [ milt i = Icel. mild i ), mildne ; mild , a.] Mildne ; gentlene . pleasant, pacific. Phy on the cruel crabbed heart Which was not movde with milde . Gas coigne, Complaint of Philomene (ed. Arber).