| 单词 | milk-sick |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmilk-sick milk-sick n. and adj. (a) n. = milk sickness n. (now chiefly historical); (b) adj. affected with milk sickness; of or relating to milk sickness. ΚΠ 1818 Missouri Gaz. & Public Advertiser (St. Louis) 14 Aug. 3/3 Milk-Sick. A disease by the above name prevails along the marshes of the American Bottom. 1867 Sci. Amer. 11 May 298/2 Cattle kept up until the dew was dried by the warm sun never were infected with the milk-sick poison. 1885 ‘C. E. Craddock’ Prophet Great Smoky Mountains ii. 46 The bars of the milk-sick pen... She [sc. a cow] lay down an' died o' the milk-sick. 1887 Science 1 July 6/2 I would no sooner touch this swill-milk than I would use milk from the most ‘milk-sick’ region of Illinois. 1946 G. Hutton Midwest at Noon 16 Thousands fell by the wayside, victims of agues, ‘the shakes’, the plagues like the fearful ‘milk-sick’. 1975 E. Wigginton Foxfire 3 84 They'd die, some of them would. Get that milksick. Couldn't get home. 1989 D. H. Fischer Albion's Seed 639 The disease called the ‘milk sick’ came to be a major problem. < as lemmas |
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