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Milky Way
[f. milky a. + way n., transl. of L. via lactea. Cf. milk way (milk n.1 10).]
1. = galaxy 1.
c1384Chaucer H. Fame ii. 429 Se yonder loo the Galoxie Whiche men clepeth the melky weye. 1551Recorde Cast. Knowl. (1556) 105 The Milkye way in heauen, whiche many men in England do call Watlyng streete. 1615Crooke Body of Man 455 As we thinke the via lactea or Milky Way in heauen is occasioned by an infinite number of small starres. 1732Pope Ess. Man i. 102 Far as the solar walk, or milky way. 1868Lockyer Elem. Astron. i. §1 (1879) 11 This belt is the Milky Way.
2. fig. and allusively.
a. A way brilliant in appearance, or leading to heaven. Also attrib.
1649W. M. Wandering Jew (1857) 56 The path to Heaven is a milky way; not a bloudy. 1670Eachard Cont. Clergy 60 Goodness is the milkey-way to Jupiter's palace. 1851H. Melville Moby Dick I. xl. 291 Leaving a milky-way wake of creamy foam. 1916D. H. Lawrence Amores 93 Pleiads of people are Deployed around me, and I see The street's long outstretched Milky Way.
†b. poet. The region of a woman's breast. Obs.
1622Wither Fair Virtue E, Whatsoeuer others say, There's alone the Milkie-way, That to beauties walkes doth goe. 1630Drummond of Hawthornden Flowres Sion 48 From her heauie Eyne Along her Cheekes distilling christall Brine, Which downe-wards to her yuorie Brest was driuen, And had bedewed the milkie-Way of Heauen. a1704T. Brown On Beauties Wks. 1730 I. 43 Two snowy mounts, so near her heart... Between those hills, a milky way there leads. 1721Ramsay Tartana 243 Behold her heav'nly face and heaving milky way. |