† cow-milkn.
Obsolete or dialect.
The milk of the cow; now cow's milk, cows' milk.
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c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 40 Genim gate geallan..meng wið cu meoluc ȝif þu wille.
c1450 Two Cookery-bks. 110 Take floure and cowe mylke.
1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. E b Goottis mylke..is nat..so full of curdes and butter as kowe mylke and shepis mylke is.
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 34 Ky mylk & ȝoue mylk.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §51 Cow-milk, thus prepared, I judge to be better than Ass-milk.
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