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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Lactiferous :: Lactiferous (a.) Bearing or containing milk or a milky fluid; as, the lactiferous vessels, cells, or tissue of various vascular plants..
Strisores :: Stripping (n.) The last milk drawn from a cow at a milking.
Dairy :: Dairy (n.) The place, room, or house where milk is kept, and converted into butter or cheese..
Milkily :: Milkily (adv.) In a milky manner.
Sillabub :: Sillabub (n.) A dish made by mixing wine or cider with milk, and thus forming a soft curd; also, sweetened cream, flavored with wine and beaten to a stiff froth..
Lactobutyrometer :: Lactobutyrometer (n.) An instrument for determining the amount of butter fat contained in a given sample of milk.
Alborak :: Alborak (n.) The imaginary milk-white animal on which Mohammed was said to have been carried up to heaven; a white mule.
Swam :: Swallowwort (n.) A poisonous plant (Vincetoxicum officinale) of the Milkweed family, at one time used in medicine; -- also called white swallowwort..
Gruel :: Gruel (n.) A light, liquid food, made by boiling meal of maize, oatmeal, or fiour in water or milk; thin porridge..
Milk :: Milk (v. t.) To draw from the breasts or udder; to extract, as milk; as, to milk wholesome milk from healthy cows..
Hasty Pudding :: Hasty pudding () A batter or pudding made of flour or oatmeal, stirred into boiling water or milk..
Milk :: Milk (n.) An emulsion made by bruising seeds; as, the milk of almonds, produced by pounding almonds with sugar and water..
Papaw :: Papaw (n.) A tree (Carica Papaya) of tropical America, belonging to the order Passifloreae. It has a soft, spongy stem, eighteen or twenty feet high, crowned with a tuft of large, long-stalked, palmately lobed leaves. The milky juice of the plant is said to have the property of making meat tender. Also, its dull orange-colored, melon-shaped fruit, which is eaten both raw and cooked or pickled..
Galaxy :: Galaxy (n.) The Milky Way; that luminous tract, or belt, which is seen at night stretching across the heavens, and which is composed of innumerable stars, so distant and blended as to be distinguishable only with the telescope. The term has recently been used for remote clusters of stars..
Brewis :: Brewis (n.) Bread soaked in broth, drippings of roast meat, milk, or water and butter..
Milk-livered :: Milk-livered (a.) White-livered; cowardly; timorous.
Latex :: Latex (n.) A milky or colored juice in certain plants in cavities (called latex cells or latex tubes). It contains the peculiar principles of the plants, whether aromatic, bitter, or acid, and in many instances yields caoutchouc upon coagulation..
Posset :: Posset (v. t.) To curdle; to turn, as milk; to coagulate; as, to posset the blood..
Serum :: Serum (n.) The watery portion of certain animal fluids, as blood, milk, etc..
Lactucone :: Lactucone (n.) A white, crystalline, tasteless substance, found in the milky sap of species of Lactuca, and constituting an essential ingredient of lactucarium..
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