Milk

[mɪlk]

Definition

(noun.) produced by mammary glands of female mammals for feeding their young.

(noun.) a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings.

(noun.) any of several nutritive milklike liquids.

(noun.) a river that rises in the Rockies in northwestern Montana and flows eastward to become a tributary of the Missouri River.

(verb.) take milk from female mammals; 'Cows need to be milked every morning'.

(verb.) add milk to; 'milk the tea'.

(verb.) exploit as much as possible; 'I am milking this for all it's worth'.

Typist: Oliver--From WordNet

Definition

(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.

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

(n.) An emulsion made by bruising seeds; as, the milk of almonds, produced by pounding almonds with sugar and water.

(n.) The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster.

(v. t.) To draw or press milk from the breasts or udder of, by the hand or mouth; to withdraw the milk of.

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

(v. t.) To draw anything from, as if by milking; to compel to yield profit or advantage; to plunder.

(v. i.) To draw or to yield milk.

Typist: Lucas

Definition

v.t. to squeeze or draw milk from: to supply with milk.—n. a white liquid secreted by female mammals for the nourishment of their young: a milk-like juice of certain plants.—adj. Milk′en consisting of milk or like milk.—ns. Milk′en-way (Bacon) the milky-way the galaxy; Milk′er one who milks: a machine for milking cows: a cow that gives milk; Milk′-fē′ver a fever accompanying the secretion of milk shortly after childbirth.—adv. Milk′ily.—ns. Milk′iness; Milk′ing the amount of milk drawn at one time; Milk′ing-stool a stool on which the milker sits while milking; Milk′ing-time; Milk′ing-tube a perforated tube inserted in a cow's teat to let the milk flow without pressing the udder; Milk′-kin′ship the kinship arising from fostering.—adj. Milk′-liv′ered (Shak.) white-livered: cowardly.—ns. Milk′maid a woman who milks: a dairymaid; Milk′man a man who sells milk esp. from door to door; Milk′-mō′lar one of the grinders or back teeth in young animals early shed and replaced by another; Milk′-porr′idge porridge made with milk instead of water; Milk′-punch an excellent but very heady drink made of milk rum or whisky sugar and nutmeg; Milk′-sick′ness (U.S.) a kind of malignant fever affecting cattle also men; Milk′sop a piece of bread sopped or soaked in milk: an effeminate silly fellow; Milk′-this′tle the lady's thistle; Milk′-tooth one of the first fore-teeth of a foal: one of the first teeth of a child; Milk′-tree a tree yielding a milk-like nourishing juice as the cow-tree of South America; Milk′-vetch a plant sometimes cultivated as food for cattle; Milk′-walk a milkman's route.—adj. Milk′-warm warm as new milk.—ns. Milk′-weed a general name for plants of the genus Asclepias from their milky juice; Milk′-wort a genus of handsome flowering plants containing a milk-like juice.—adj. Milk′y made of full of like or yielding milk: soft: gentle.—n. Milk′y-way (astron.) the galaxy a broad luminous zone in the sky caused by the light of innumerable fixed stars.

Checker: Tessie