Definition of milk

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Milk (n.) A white fluid secreted by the mammary glands of female mammals for the nourishment of their young, consisting of minute globules of fat suspended in a solution of casein, albumin, milk sugar, and inorganic salts..

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Lacteous :: Lacteous (a.) Milky; resembling milk.
Serum :: Serum (n.) The watery portion of certain animal fluids, as blood, milk, etc..
Lopper :: Lopper (v. i.) To turn sour and coagulate from too long standing, as milk..
Saccharinic :: Saccharinic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, saccharin; specifically, designating a complex acid not known in the free state but well known in its salts, which are obtained by boiling dextrose and levulose (invert sugar) with milk of lime..
Emulsive :: Emulsive (a.) Producing or yielding a milklike substance; as, emulsive acids..
Milk :: Milk (n.) The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster..
Rattleweed :: Rattleweed (n.) Any plant of the genus Astragalus. See Milk vetch.
Galactophagous :: Galactophagous (a.) Feeding on milk.
Milker :: Milker (n.) One who milks; also, a mechanical apparatus for milking cows..
Lactiferous :: Lactiferous (a.) Bearing or containing milk or a milky fluid; as, the lactiferous vessels, cells, or tissue of various vascular plants..
Polygala :: Polygala (n.) A genus of bitter herbs or shrubs having eight stamens and a two-celled ovary (as the Seneca snakeroot, the flowering wintergreen, etc.); milkwort..
Turn :: Turn (v. i.) To become acid; to sour; -- said of milk, ale, etc..
Coagulation :: Coagulation (n.) The change from a liquid to a thickened, curdlike, insoluble state, not by evaporation, but by some kind of chemical reaction; as, the spontaneous coagulation of freshly drawn blood; the coagulation of milk by rennet, or acid, and the coagulation of egg albumin by heat. Coagulation is generally the change of an albuminous body into an insoluble modification..
Wean :: Wean (a.) To accustom and reconcile, as a child or other young animal, to a want or deprivation of mother's milk; to take from the breast or udder; to cause to cease to depend on the mother nourishment..
Milk-livered :: Milk-livered (a.) White-livered; cowardly; timorous.
Lick :: Lick (v. t.) To lap; to take in with the tongue; as, a dog or cat licks milk..
Rennet :: Rennet (v.) The inner, or mucous, membrane of the fourth stomach of the calf, or other young ruminant; also, an infusion or preparation of it, used for coagulating milk..
Bonnyclabber :: Bonnyclabber (n.) Coagulated sour milk; loppered milk; curdled milk; -- sometimes called simply clabber.
Agalaxy :: Agalaxy (n.) Failure of the due secretion of milk after childbirth.
Lactary :: Lactary (a.) Milky; full of white juice like milk.
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