Definition of milk

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Milk (v. t.) To draw from the breasts or udder; to extract, as milk; as, to milk wholesome milk from healthy cows..

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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..
Sarcolactic :: Sarcolactic (a.) Relating to muscle and milk; as, sarcolactic acid. See Lactic acid, under Lactic..
Strip :: Strip (v. t.) To deprive of all milk; to milk dry; to draw the last milk from; hence, to milk with a peculiar movement of the hand on the teats at the last of a milking; as, to strip a cow..
Lettuce :: Lettuce (n.) A composite plant of the genus Lactuca (L. sativa), the leaves of which are used as salad. Plants of this genus yield a milky juice, from which lactucarium is obtained. The commonest wild lettuce of the United States is L. Canadensis..
Buttery :: Buttery (n.) An apartment in a house where butter, milk and other provisions are kept..
Lactonic :: Lactonic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained by the oxidation of milk sugar (lactose)..
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..
Proteid :: Proteid (n.) One of a class of amorphous nitrogenous principles, containing, as a rule, a small amount of sulphur; an albuminoid, as blood fibrin, casein of milk, etc. Proteids are present in nearly all animal fluids and make up the greater part of animal tissues and organs. They are also important constituents of vegetable tissues. See 2d Note under Food..
Weldon''s Process :: Weldon's process () A process for the recovery or regeneration of manganese dioxide in the manufacture of chlorine, by means of milk of lime and the oxygen of the air; -- so called after the inventor..
Lactifical :: Lactifical (a.) Producing or yielding milk.
Tyre :: Tyre () Curdled milk.
Strisores :: Stripping (n.) The last milk drawn from a cow at a milking.
Serum :: Serum (n.) The watery portion of certain animal fluids, as blood, milk, etc..
Milkman :: Milkman (n.) A man who sells milk or delivers is to customers.
Udderless :: Udderless (a.) Hence, without mother's milk; motherless; as, udderless lambs..
Dry :: Dry (superl.) Of animals: Not giving milk; as, the cow is dry..
Rattleweed :: Rattleweed (n.) Any plant of the genus Astragalus. See Milk vetch.
Panshon :: Panshon (n.) An earthen vessel wider at the top than at the bottom, -- used for holding milk and for various other purposes..
Horn :: Horn (n.) An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias)..
Lopper :: Lopper (v. i.) To turn sour and coagulate from too long standing, as milk..
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