Milch, a.
(66), a. [A.-S. melc, O. H. Ger. melch, N. H. Ger. melch. See MILK.]
Sense 1. Giving or furnishing milk;—now applied only to beasts.
Not above fifty-one have been starved, excepting infants at nurse, caused rather by carelessness and infirmity of the milch women. Grant.
I have a hundred milch kine to the pail. Shak.
Sense 2. Soft; tender; merciful; as, milch-hearted.
When she saw Pyrrhus make malicious sport In mincing with his sword her husband's limbs, The instant burst of clamor that she made Would have made milch the burning eyes of Heaven. Shak.