Definition of milk

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Milk (n.) A kind of juice or sap, usually white in color, found in certain plants; latex. See Latex..

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Albino :: Albino (n.) A person, whether negro, Indian, or white, in whom by some defect of organization the substance which gives color to the skin, hair, and eyes is deficient or in a morbid state. An albino has a skin of a milky hue, with hair of the same color, and eyes with deep red pupil and pink or blue iris. The term is also used of the lower animals, as white mice, elephants, etc.; and of plants in a whitish condition from the absence of chlorophyll..
Suck :: Suck (v. i.) To draw milk from the breast or udder; as, a child, or the young of an animal, is first nourished by sucking..
Earn :: Earn (v. i.) To curdle, as milk..
Buttermilk :: Buttermilk (n.) The milk that remains after the butter is separated from the cream.
Pap :: Pap (n.) A soft food for infants, made of bread boiled or softtened in milk or water..
Follicle :: Follicle (n.) A simple podlike pericarp which contains several seeds and opens along the inner or ventral suture, as in the peony, larkspur and milkweed..
Lactarene :: Lactarene (n.) A preparation of casein from milk, used in printing calico..
Galactic :: Galactic (a.) Of or pertaining to milk; got from milk; as, galactic acid..
Skim :: Skim (v. t.) To clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or lying thereon, by means of a utensil that passes just beneath the surface; as, to skim milk; to skim broth..
Milk :: Milk (n.) An emulsion made by bruising seeds; as, the milk of almonds, produced by pounding almonds with sugar and water..
Gruel :: Gruel (n.) A light, liquid food, made by boiling meal of maize, oatmeal, or fiour in water or milk; thin porridge..
Panshon :: Panshon (n.) An earthen vessel wider at the top than at the bottom, -- used for holding milk and for various other purposes..
Euphorbia :: Euphorbia (n.) Spurge, or bastard spurge, a genus of plants of many species, mostly shrubby, herbaceous succulents, affording an acrid, milky juice. Some of them are armed with thorns. Most of them yield powerful emetic and cathartic products..
Chyle :: Chyle (n.) A milky fluid containing the fatty matter of the food in a state of emulsion, or fine mechanical division; formed from chyme by the action of the intestinal juices. It is absorbed by the lacteals, and conveyed into the blood by the thoracic duct..
Stapes :: Stapelia (n.) An extensive and curious genus of African plants of the natural order Asclepiadaceae (Milkweed family). They are succulent plants without leaves, frequently covered with dark tubercles giving them a very grotesque appearance. The odor of the blossoms is like that of carrion..
Curd :: Curd (n.) The coagulated or thickened part of milk, as distinguished from the whey, or watery part. It is eaten as food, especially when made into cheese..
Lacteally :: Lacteally (adv.) Milkily; in the manner of milk.
Galacta-gogue :: Galacta-gogue (n.) An agent exciting secretion of milk.
Cheese :: Cheese (n.) The curd of milk, coagulated usually with rennet, separated from the whey, and pressed into a solid mass in a hoop or mold..
Umbel :: Umbel (n.) A kind of flower cluster in which the flower stalks radiate from a common point, as in the carrot and milkweed. It is simple or compound; in the latter case, each peduncle bears another little umbel, called umbellet, or umbellule..
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