Milky
['mɪlkɪ] or ['mɪlki]
Definition
(a.) Consisting of, or containing, milk.
(a.) Like, or somewhat like, milk; whitish and turbid; as, the water is milky. "Milky juice."
(a.) Yielding milk.
(a.) Mild; tame; spiritless.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:White, {[emulcont]?}, chalky
ANT:Inky, irritant, luteous
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Examples
- In South America there are some trees known as cow-trees which, when wounded, yield a rich, milky, nutritious juice in such abundance as to render it an important article of food. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- There was an American by the name of Charles Goodyear who had heard how the natives of the rubber-growing countries used this milky juice in many ways for their own benefit. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Looking up, I, with tear-dimmed eyes, saw the mighty Milky- way. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- When it comes from the tree it is nothing but a milky juice. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It was a milky yellow now with the water and he hoped the gypsy would not take more than a swallow. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The milky juice is emptied from the cups into a tank and lime juice is added and it is then allowed to stand. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The Milky Way is one stratum and in it our sun is placed, though perhaps not in the very center of its thickness. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The modes of treating this milky juice varies among the natives of the several countries where the trees abound. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Kant was especially stimulated by the analog y between the Milky Way and the rings of Saturn. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The column of light is not the Milky Way--which is neither straight, nor like a rainbow--but the imaginary axis of the earth. Plato. The Republic.
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