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ˈskim-milk
[f. skim v. + milk n.]
1. Milk with the cream skimmed off or otherwise removed. Also in fig. context.
1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, ii. iii. 36 (Qq.), I could deuide my selfe, and go to buffets, for mouing such a dish of skim milke [1623 folio skim'd Milk] with so honorable an action. a1712W. King Misc. Poems, The Old Cheese, This is Skim-milk, and therefore it shall go. 1799A. Young Agric. Linc. 297 He..gives first new, then skim milk. 1808Curwen Econ. Feeding Stock 63 The skim-milk was included in the butter account. 1851Mayhew Lond. Lab. I. 382/1 He lived principally upon ‘parritch’ and skim milk. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 132 If fat be removed from the milk as in ‘skim’ milk, rickets follows.
fig.1778The Love Feast 11 Craft's blue skim-Milk is best for Tools to lap. 1872Punch 4 May 180/2 The genuine outpouring of the milk and cream, and none of the skim-milk of human kindness. 1898Westm. Gaz. 14 Nov. 7/1 The idea prevailed that the cream had been extracted from the..revelations, leaving little but skim milk behind.
2. attrib., as skim-milk cheese, etc.
1805R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 1012 In making skim-milk-cheeses the milk is set in the leads or pans as usual. 1836Haliburton Clockm. (1862) 220 It's no skim⁓milk story, I do assure you. 1837Penny Cycl. VII. 15/2 On the whole it is a better cheese than our Suffolk skim⁓milk cheese. 1876Clinical Soc. Trans. IX. 38 On the adoption of the skim-milk treatment. |