milkwort

[Eng. milk, and wort.] Botany: 1. Sing .: The genus Polygala (q. v.). Common Milkwort is Polygala vulgar is ; Austrian Milkwort P. uliginosa or a us triac a ; Sea Milkwort is the genus Glaux, and specially Glaux maritima . 2. Pl .: The name given by Lindley to the order Polygalaceae (q. v.). milk'-ỹ, a. [Eng. milk; -y.] 1. Made of milk; consisting or composed of milk. "The pails high foaming with a milky flood." Pope: Homer's Iliad, xvi. 780. 2. Resembling milk; of the nature of milk. "Some plants, upon breaking their ve els, yield a milky juice." -Arbuthnot: On Aliments. *3. Yielding milk. "Perhaps my pa ion he disdains, And courts the milky mothers of the plains." 4. White, milk-white. *5. Soft, mild, tender, gentle, timid. (1) Barker's mill : mill Mach .: A gla ve el containing water, and capable of moving about on its vertical axis. In the lower part is a tube bent horizontally at the two ends in opposite directions. The water i uing makes it revolve on its axis. Called also the Hydraulic Tourniquet. (2) Light mill: [RADIOMETER.] mill-bar, s. Iron-works: The rough bar, as drawn out by the puddler's rolls, as distinguished from merchant bar.