milk (milk)

[ forming a yellowish stratum, Drop of Milk, showing fat the cream, which consists main globules (highly magnified). ly of the fat, mixed with some Milke before wine, I would twere mine; Milke taken after, is poisons daughter. Quoted in Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), Index, p. 100. She bath'd her body many a time In fountains fill'd with milk . Thoo [squills] that in hilles growe or places colde Have litel mylk . IMG:content-0627.png:[blocks in formation] milk-and-water (milk'and-water), a . Insipid, like milk diluted with water; hence, weak; characterle ; wishy-washy. [Colloq.] What slays a veteran may well lay a milk - and - water bour. milk-blotch (milk'bloch), n. An eruption of numerous minute vesicles on a red surface, on the faces of infants, in some cases extending to the neck and breast. The vesicles break, and dis- charge a viscid fluid, which becomes incrusted in yellow ish or greenish scabs, forming, as they extend, a kind of mask. It is a form of vesicular eczema. Also called milk- crust or milk - scab . milk-can (milk'kan), n. A large can for carry- ing milk to market or to customers. milk-car (milk'kär), n. A special form of box freight-car with end platforms and pa enger- car springs, used for the transportation of milk in cans. [U. S.] milk-cooler (milk'kö"lėr), n. An apparatus for cooling fresh milk by means of ice or cold IMG:content-0628.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0629.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0630.png:[blocks in formation] Sir P. Sidney , Arcadia, iv. milken-wayt (mil'kn-wā), n. Same as Milky Way . I said thine eyes were stars, thy breasts the milken - way . Sir P. Sidney (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 564). milker (mil'kėr), n. 1. One who milks. His kine, with swelling udders, ready stand, And, lowing for the pail, invite the milker's hand. Dryden, tr. of Virgil's Georgics, ii. 764. 2. An apparatus for milking cows mechanical- ly.-3. A cow or other animal that gives milk: usually with a qualifying term. [Colloq.] Inferior cows will require to be weeded out, and the utmost attention must be paid to breeding good milkers . Quarterly Rev., CXLV. 323. milk-factory (milk'faktō-ri), n. See the quo- tation. Newcomb and Holden , Astron., p. 458. Hence-2. Blandne ; mildne ; softne . Would I could share the balmy, even temper, And milkine of blood. Dryden, Cleomenes, i. 1. My new companion poured out his complaints in no milkine of mood. T. C. Grattan. milking (mil'king), n. [Verbal n. of milk , v.] 1. The act of drawing milk.-2. The milk so obtained at one time. -3. In racing slang , the keeping of a horse a favorite, at short odds, for a race in which he has no chance, or from which he is to be withdrawn, with the object of bet- ting against him. Krik's Guide to the Turf . milking-stool (mil'king- stöl), n. A stool used to sit on while milking a cow. The stool in common use has three legs. In Swit- zerland one is used consisting of a disk which can be strapped to the person, with a sharpened or pointed prop about a foot milking-time (mil'king- tim), n. The time of day, especially about sun- set, at which cows or other animals are usually milked. And I'll gi' thee ane o' my best milk - ky , To maintain thy wife and children three.. Dick o' the Cow (Child's Ballads, VI. 78). milk-leg (milk'leg), n. Same as phlegmasia dolens. See phlegmasia . milkle (milk'les), a . [ milk , n., + -le .] Without milk; specifically, in bot . , not sup- plied with or producing milk, a character of high importance in agaric i no us fungi. Factories, as explained by Canon Bagot, in a paper read at the recent Dairy Conference in Ireland, are of three kinds, distinguished by him as milk factories , creameries, and butter factories. In the milk factories , which are be- coming common in the south of Ireland, the whole milk is purchased from the farmers, the price paid lately being 4d. to 4 d. a gallon, and the separated milk, after the cream has been extracted by the mechanical cream sep a- for the feeding of pigs. Quarterly Rev., CXLV. 306. Milk - liver'd man, That bear'st a cheek for blows, a head for wrongs. Shak ., Lear, iv. 2. 50. IMG:content-0631.png:[blocks in formation] 6t. To supply with milk; feed with milk. Norished was Terry fuetly to ryght That she full ofte hym raid [dre ed) and dight, Chaufed, milked , and rechaufed again. IMG:content-0632.png:[blocks in formation] The help which fasting does to prayer cannot be served by changing flesh into fish, or milk - meats into dry diet. Jer. Taylor , Holy Living, iv. 5. Abstaining from flesh and milk - meats on Friday. N. Bailey , tr. of Colloquies of Erasmus, p. 274. Certain marks milk-gla (milk'glas), n. Same as cryolite gla (which see, under cryolite ) . milk-globule (mill milk-globule (milk'glob ül), n. One of the numerous small highly refractive oil-globules milk-mirror (milk'mir or), n. floating in the milk-plasma. The white color and opacity of milk are due to the milk-globules, which reflect the light. They consist of fat or butter, surrounded by a very thin envelop of casein. milk-hedge (milk'hej), n. A shrub or small tree, Euphorbia Tirucalli , native in Africa, and nat- uralized in parts of India. It branches densely, is perennially green, and is much used for hedges. Its wood, which is very hard, and durable when not exposed to wet, is valuable for gunpowder-charcoal. Its milky juice is an Indian specific for syphilis. IMG:content-0633.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0634.png:[blocks in formation] parsley. A clear