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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Milk

Milk, n.

noun

n. [A-S. miluc, meoluc, meoloc, meole, milc, mele, O. Fries. meloc, Goth. miluks, Icel. miölk, Sw. mjölk, Dan., D., & L. Ger. melk, O. H. Ger. miluh, miloh, M. H. Ger. milich, mileh, N. H. Ger. milch, allied to Russ. moloko, O. Slav. mlěko, Pol. & Bohem. mleko.]

Sense 1. A white fluid secreted by female mammals for the nourishment of their young. It consists of a solution of caseine and various salts, with minute globular cells of fat.

Sense 2. Hence, the white juice of certain plants.

Sense 3. Emulsion made by bruising seeds; as, the milk of almonds, produced by pounding almonds with sugar and water.

☞ This word is frequently used in self-explaining compounds denoting that which relates to, resembles, contains, or is made of, milk, &c.; as, milk-man, milk-market, milk-meat, milk-pail, milk-pan, milk-pap (teat), milk-porridge, milk-pottage, milk-punch, milk-store, milk-warm, milk-woman, and the like.

Milk of lime, water mixed with quicklime;—so called from its resemblance to milk in color and consistence.—Sugar of milk (Chem.), the sugar held in solution in milk. It is peculiar as not undergoing alcoholic fermentation.

Milk, v. t.

verbtransitive

[imp. & p. p. MILKED (mĭlkt); p. pr. & vb. n. MILKING.] [A-S. melcan, meolcan, milcian, meolcian, O. H. Ger. melchan, M. H. Ger. melchen, N. H. Ger. & D. melken, Icel. miolka, Sw. mjölka, Dan. melke, mölke, allied to Lat. mulgere, Gr. ἀμέλγειν, Lith. milszti, Slav. mlěsti.]

Sense 1. To draw or press milk from, by the hand or mouth; to withdraw the milk of.

I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me. Shak.

Sense 2. To draw from the breasts or udder; to extract, as milk.

Sense 3. To supply with milk; to mingle milk with; to add milk to.