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▪ I. milky, a.|ˈmɪlkɪ|
[f. milk n.1 + -y.]
1. a. Having the appearance of milk, or of water into which milk has been dropped. Also (chiefly poet.), resembling milk in colour, milk-white.
milky-white: in poetical use = milk-white; in prose use, rather, white resembling that of milk diffused through water.
1384[see Milky Way]. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xv. lxvi. (1495) 511 Sibel callyth frensshmen, Galles, that is whyte and sayd that in one yere mylky neckes shall be mynyd. 1567J. Maplet Gr. Forest 76 The Caladrius sayth Aristotle is of milkie colour, without any black spot. 1653Nissena 8 Lips of Coral.. Eyes brighter then the Sun, Milky hands; such..were the ravishing graces. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iii. 600 With Fleeces milky white. 1758Reid tr. Macquer's Chym. I. 395 With regard to the white powder that renders the solution milky..it is nothing but a portion of the Lead. 1791Herschel in Phil. Trans. LXXXI. 81 A star with a pretty strong milky nebulosity. Ibid. 85 Tinged with milky nebulosity. 1818–20E. Thompson tr. Cullen's Nosol. Method. (ed. 3) 226 A milky humour like chyle. 1850Tennyson In Mem. cxiv, The flocks are whiter down the vale, And milkier every milky sail. 1859― Geraint & Enid 150 A hart Taller than all his fellows, milky-white. 1869G. Lawson Dis. Eye (1874) 157 A piece of tough milky white looking lens capsule. 1878Huxley Physiogr. 82 The liquid becomes milky as the carbonic acid gas..bubbles through. 1883Times 27 Aug. 8/3 The whole of the bay wore a milky look.
b. said of the juices of plants and fruits.
1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. ii. (1586) 109 b, The sappe..in the Figge tree..is milkie. 1660Hickeringill Jamaica (1661) 24 The Coco Nuts..in whose content, is barrell'd up..a milky liquor. 1766Compl. Farmer s.v. Sap, In plants, particularly in such as abound with a milky sap. 1855Sir E. Smith in Syst. Nat. Hist. I. 30 The latex, or milky fluid, is of immense service to man. Ibid. 31 The following is the mode in which the India-rubber is prepared from the milky juice. 1884Bower & Scott De Bary's Phaner. 184 The slightly milky latex.
c. Path. milky ascites: that variety of ascites in which the contained fluid is milky.
1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VI. 449 Such cases [of ascites] are described as milky, non-fatty ascites.
2. Of or consisting of milk. rare.
1552Huloet, Milkye meates, or meates made of milke. Lactaria. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iii. 482 The salacious Goat..twice as largely yields her milky Store. 1791Mrs. Radcliffe Rom. Forest III. xxvi. 339 Several peasant girls..were dispensing the milky feast.
3. a. Containing, abounding in, or yielding milk.
1641J. Jackson True Evang. T. ii. 103 The milkie fruitfulnesse of the Cow. 1675G. R. tr. Le Grand's Man without Passion 36 When those two Milky Mountains become one double bag full of Blood, they are no more desired by men. 1714Gay Sheph. Week Mon. 78 As my Buxoma..With gentle finger stroked her milky care. 1870Bryant Iliad ix. 272 Argos, richly stocked In milky kine.
b. Bot. Yielding milk-like juice.
1765G. Washington Diaries (1925) I. 210 Note, the [mulberry] Stocks were very Milkey. 1768Ibid. 282 Some [wheat] whose straw and head was green but the grain of full size and Milky. 1789J. Morse Amer. Geogr. 52 About the time that it begins to turn from its milky state and to ripen, they run their canoes into the midst of it. 1861Bentley Man. Bot. 583 The Goodenia Order.—Herbs or rarely shrubs, not milky. Ibid., The Stylewort Order.—Herbs or under-shrubs, not milky. 1884Bower & Scott De Bary's Phaner. 432 In milky plants provided with phloemportions..these also are accompanied by laticiferous tubes.
c. Of food: Promoting the secretion of milk.
1886C. Scott Sheep Farming 50 Cabbages..are also preferable..for ewes at lambing time, and are very ‘milky’.
d. Of an oyster: Full of spawn. Cf. milk n. 8 b.
1865Chambers's Encycl. VII. 324/1.
4. transf. and fig.
a. Of persons, their actions, attributes, etc. Soft, gentle; in bad sense, timorous, effeminate, weakly amiable; also (slang), cowardly.
16022nd Pt. Return fr. Parnass. i. iv. (Arb.) 17 See what a little vermine pouerty altereth a whole milkie disposition. 1607Shakes. Timon iii. i. 57 Has friendship such a faint and milkie heart, It turnes in lesse then two nights? 1658Manton Exp. Jude 20 Peter writeth in a milky, sweet, middle way. 1764Foote Patron iii. Wks. 1799 I. 352 If you find the audience too indulgent, inclined to be milky, [etc.]. 1782H. Cowley Bold Stroke for Husb. i. ii, I long to set a pattern to those milky wives, whose mean compliances degrade the sex. 1813Byron 5 Sept. in Moore Lett. & Jrnls. (1830) I. 426 They made..me (the milkiest of men) a satirist. 1883J. Parker Tyne Ch. 3 People who..spoke a soft and milky language. 1884W. C. Smith Kildrostan 92, I hate Your meek and milky girls, that dare not kiss A burning passion, clinging to your lips. 1936J. Curtis Gilt Kid ii. 18 They just talk that way to make you turn milky. 1938G. Greene Brighton Rock ii. i. 62 I'm not milky... I just don't want another killing. 1954‘N. Blake’ Whisper in Gloom xvi. 217 Look at da kid. He's not milky. 1969H. Carvic Miss Seeton draws Line ix. 171 ‘Getting milky?’ scoffed Doris.
b. Of a noise, song, etc.: soft. poet.
1924E. Sitwell Sleeping Beauty x. 38 Goats gold as wheat With a kind white milky bleat. 1925― Troy Park 76 A white bird sang a milky song Of easy heaven and feathered rest.
5. Comb., as milky-coloured, milky-farinaceous, milky-looking, milky-sapped, milky-toothed, milky-watery adjs.; milky cap, one of the gill-bearing fungi, Russula lactea; † milky circle, the milky way; milky-fever, -hedge, -parsley, -scall, -sea = milk-fever, -hedge, etc. (see milk n. 10, 10 b); milky tree = cow-tree 1.
1887Hay Brit. Fungi 112 Russula lactea, The *Milky-cap.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vii. iv. 346 The Galaxia or *milky Circle.
1906W. B. Yeats Poems 1899–1905 268 Hold up your hands to him, that you may pluck That *milky-coloured neck out of the noose.
1896Allbutt's Syst. Med. I. 411 The most satisfactory diet..is a *milky-farinaceous one.
1747tr. Astruc's Fevers 355 A fever, with a swelling of the breasts can be taken for no other than a *milky fever.
1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XII. 23/2 *Milky-Hedge, the English name of a shrub growing on the coast of Coromandel.
1862Miller Elem. Chem., Org. (ed. 2) 268 A *milky-looking fluid or emulsion.
1640Parkinson Theat. Bot. 928, I have entituled it..Wild *milkie Parsley. 1759Miller Gard. Dict. (ed. 7) s.v. Selinum, Milky Parsley.
1923D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers 19 Folded upon itself..And *milky⁓sapped, sap that curdles milk and makes ricotta.
1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) IV. 487 Whence the French name of croute de lait and our own of *milky scall.
1871Kingsley At Last i, That most rare and unexplained phenomenon of a ‘*milky sea’.
1905E. F. Benson Image in Sand i. 2 Brown-faced, *milky-toothed Arabs were there.
1666J. Davies Hist. Caribby Isles 49 Others have venemous qualities, as the *Milkie tree.
1886J. R. Rees Pleas. Bk.-Worm v. 168 Languishing *milky-watery young men.
Hence ˈmilkily adv. rare.
1881Watson in Jrnl. Linn. Soc. XV. 247 The shell is milkily transparent. 1903N. Munro in Blackw. Mag. June 813/2 The byre was warm and odorous milkily.
▪ II. milky, n. slang.|ˈmɪlkɪ|
Also milkie.
[f. milk n.1 + -y6, -ie.]
A familiar or nursery name for: (a) a milkman or milk-boy; (b) milk.
1886H. Baumann Londinismen 108/1 Milky, milkman. 1922Joyce Ulysses 363 Go home to nicey bread and milky and say night prayers with the kiddies. 1923‘R. Crompton’ William Again xii. 203 ‘'Ello, kids!’ said the milk-boy... ‘'Ello, Milky!’ 1946P. H. Simpson If you'd care to Know 134 Box in which the ‘milkie’ places the bottled milk. 1966‘L. Lane’ ABZ of Scouse 68 She keeps ther milkie on ther doorstep fer ars (hours). 1975Evening News 21 Apr. 4/4 He appeared his normal easy-going self and all he said to me was, ‘Hullo milkie.’ |