milkyadj.

Brit.

/ˈmɪlki/, U.S.

/ˈmɪlki/

Forms: see milk n.¹ and -y suffix¹; also Scottish pre-1700 milkky.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: milk n.¹, -y suffix¹.

Etymology: < milk n.¹ + -y suffix¹.

a. Having the appearance of milk, or of water into which milk has been dropped; milklike in consistency; resembling milk in colour, milk-white. Also (of a gem, glass, liquid, etc.): cloudy, opaque. Cf. Milky Way n.

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the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > [adjective] > pure white > as milk

milk-whiteOE

as white as milkOE

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milkya1398

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milkena1586

lacteal1633

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lactaceous1656

lactean1659

lactescent1758

milchy1890

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 59^v Ȝelouȝ colour & melky & oþur suche tokeneþ feblenes of hete.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 180^v Þerefore sibille calleth hem [sc. the French] galles, þat is white, and seith þanne mylky nekkes shal be mynede.

1526 Grete Herball cccclxxxix. sig. Bbv^v/2 The chese whiche is fresshe & mylky is better to eate.

1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 76 The Caladrius sayth Aristotle is of milkie colour, without any black spot.

1653 tr. F. Carmeni Nissena 8 Lips of Coral... Eyes brighter then the Sun, Milky hands; such..were the ravishing graces.

a1678 A. Marvell Gallery in Misc. Poems (1681) 23 Like to Aurora in the Dawn; When in the East she slumb'ring lyes, And stretches out her milky Thighs.

1758 A. Reid tr. P. J. Macquer Elements Theory & Pract. Chym. I. 395 With regard to the white powder that renders the solution milky..it is nothing but a portion of the Lead.

1791 F. W. Herschel in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 81 81 A star with a pretty strong milky nebulosity.

1791 F. W. Herschel in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 81 85 Tinged with milky nebulosity.

1818–20 E. Thompson Cullen's Nosologia (ed. 3) 226 A milky humour like chyle.

1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam cxiii. 178 The flocks are whiter down the vale, And milkier every milky sail.

1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 82 The liquid becomes milky as the carbonic acid gas..bubbles through.

1909 F. W. Taylor & S. E. Thompson Treat. Concrete (ed. 2) xv. 303 The milky laitance which appears on concrete laid under water represents an actual loss of cement.

1960 O. Manning Great Fortune iv. 281 A few elms rose out of the hedges into a milky sky.

1987 Which? Nov. 537/2 Colours on crockery fade, and glassware acquires a ‘milky’ appearance.

b. In plants and fruits: designating juice and sap which resembles milk.

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the world > plants > part of plant > plant substances > [adjective] > having or yielding a milky fluid > milky (of the fluid)

milkya1398

lactescent1815

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 208^v Trees beeþ dyuers..and þe cause is in grete trees humour þat is mylky, as it fareþ in figge trees.

a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) iv. ix. 85 Spryngand herbys..with brasyn hukis cuttit..To get thar mylky sap.

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 109^v The sappe..in the Figge tree..is milkie.

1661 E. Hickeringill Jamaica 24 The Coco Nuts..in whose content, is barrell'd up..a milky liquor.

1766 Compl. Farmer at Sap In plants, particularly in such as abound with a milky sap.

1855 Sir E. Smith in Syst. Nat. Hist. I. 30 The latex, or milky fluid, is of immense service to man.

1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 184 The slightly milky latex.

1930 R. Macaulay Staying with Relations ix. 127 The milky juice of the poison~wood tree.

1986 J. A. Samson Trop. Fruits (ed. 2) iv. 140 The banana..is a tree-like herb..from two to six metre high, with milky juice in all parts.

1993 Your Garden May 66/2 You will find the plant ‘bleeds’ milky sap—this is irritant, so keep well away from eyes and mouth and wash your hands afterwards.

c. Of developing grain: having a moist consistency likened to milk. Also: designating the stage in the development of grain crops at which the immature grain is pale and moist in consistency. See also milky grain n. at Compounds 2. Cf. in the milk at milk n.¹ 2b.

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1705 R. Beverley Hist. Virginia iii. iv. 15 They delight much to feed on Roasting-ears; that is, the Indian Corn, gathered green and milky..and roasted before the Fire, in the Ear.

1768 G. Washington Diary (1925) I. 282 Some [wheat] whose straw and head was green but the grain of full size and Milky.

1789 J. 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.

1893 Science 29 Sept. 172/1 The ear should be allowed to develop until the grain has reached the ‘milky’ stage.

1979 Jrnl. Appl. Ecol. 16 29 Rice was eaten by birds at all stages of ripening from the milky stage onwards.

1995 New Phytologist 131 242/2 Ozone doses were calculated..for the period 4 July until 16 August, i.e. from anthesis to the end of grain filling, i.e. the milky ripe stage.

a. Medicine. Containing chyle (or a white fluid resembling chyle).

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?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 67 (MED) Bytwene it [sc. the uterus] and þo tetes beeþ melky and menstrual veynes contynued.

1663 R. Boyle Some Considerations Usefulnesse Exper. Nat. Philos. ii. i. 10 The discoveries of the milky Vessels in the Mesentery by Asellius.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 449 Such cases are described as milky, non-fatty ascites.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 450 It is probable that non-fatty milky pleural effusions also occur.

1985 Clinics in Chest Med. 6 163 Both chylothorax and pseudochylothorax are characterized by milky or turbid pleural effusions.

1997 Hosp. Pract. 15 Aug. 39 (title) Milky ascites in a former whiskey runner.

b. gen. Containing or mixed with milk; having much milk; yielding milk.

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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > [adjective] > yielding milk

milchc1300

milky1557

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glad-milch1601

milchy1606

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in milk1797

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > breast or breasts (of woman) > [adjective] > types of

milky1557

milkful1589

full-breasted1611

liberal?1624

milkless1636

busty1867

bosomful1870

pneumatic1910

bosomy1928

top-heavy1934

breasty1937

well-endowed1951

chesty1955

1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes sig. O.iiii^v With my lips, your milky paps I straynd.

1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper ii. 103 The milkie fruitfulnesse of the Cow.

1714 J. Gay Shepherd's Week i. 78 As my Buxoma..With gentle finger strok'd her milky care.

1798 W. Wordsworth Female Vagrant in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 81 For them, in nature's meads, the milky udder flowed.

1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. ix. 272 Argos, richly stocked In milky kine.

1975 ‘C. Aird’ Slight Mourning ii. 18 Sloan's own nightcap was usually milky coffee.

1989 New Scientist 18 Mar. 51/1 The son of the world's milkiest cow may sire female calves..that can barely manage to fill a jug.

c. Botany. Of a plant, or part of one: containing or producing juice or sap which resembles milk.

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the world > plants > part of plant > plant substances > [adjective] > having or yielding a milky fluid

lactary1646

milky1646

lactific1657

lactescent1673

lactiferous1675

lactifluous1777

lactarious1855

lactory-

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vi. x. 323 Why also from Lactary or milky plants which have a white and lacteous juice dispersed through every part, there arise flowers blue and yellow?

1765 G. Washington Diary (1925) I. 210 Note, the [mulberry] Stocks were very Milkey.

1770 G. White Let. 8 Oct. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 135 Milky plants, such as lettuces, dandelions, sowthistles, are it's [sc. a land tortoise] favourite dish.

1832 E. Lankester Veg. Substances Food 191 The stem, which is milky, is peeled and eaten raw by the Laplanders.

1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. ii. iii. 583 The Goodenia Order.—Herbs or rarely shrubs, not milky.

1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 432 In milky plants provided with phloemportions..these also are accompanied by laticiferous tubes.

1956 Dict. Gardening (Royal Hort. Soc.) (ed. 2) I. 22/1 Resembles A. campestre in general appearance, but that species differs in its 5-lobed l[eaf] with milky stalks.

1996 R. Mabey Flora Britannica 355/2 [Vernacular names] for thistles in general: Dashels, Milky Dashels, [etc.].

d. Of an oyster: full of spawn. Cf. milk n.¹ 4b.

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1865 Chambers's Encycl. VII. 177/1 From 3000 to 4000 [eggs] exist within an O[yster] at once when ‘sick’, ‘milky’ or full of spawn.

1997 San Francisco Examiner (Nexis) 12 Feb. z1 Winter is the oyster season, months with ‘R’ and all that, the colder water, the fact that oysters spawn and get ‘milky’ in the summer months.

†e. Of food: promoting the production of milk. Obsolete. rare.

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1886 C. Scott Pract. Sheep-farming 50 Cabbages..are also preferable..for ewes at lambing time, and are very ‘milky’.

3. Of or consisting of milk.

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the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > [adjective] > relating to milk

milkeneOE

milkyc1449

lactary1646

lacteal1753

lactic1789

milchig1904

c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 558 And if he wolde forbere fisch and mylky mete in ech Friday in the Lente [etc.].

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum sig. Uii^v/2 Milkye meates, or meates made of milke. Lactaria.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 110 The sallacious Goat..twice as largely yields her milky Store.

1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure II. 248 Kind nature engages infants at the breast, by the pleasure they find in the motion of their little mouths and cheeks, to extract the milky stream prepar'd for their nourishment.

1791 A. Radcliffe Romance of Forest III. xxxv. 339 Several peasant girls..were dispensing the milky feast.

1881 Austral. Grazier's Guide (S. W. Silver & Co.) II. ii. iv. 12 A longer period of free access to their mothers' milky stores, on the part of the calves, would seriously prejudice the morrow's milk.

1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 411 Digestive incapacity for starch and milky food.

1998 P. Grace Baby No-eyes (1999) xiv. 119 Sometimes it's her baby mess and baby pee, or her milky sick-up that I smell.

4. Extended uses.

a. Of a person, or a person's action, attribute, etc.: soft, gentle; (with unfavourable connotation) timorous, weak, compliant; effeminate. Also in recent slang use: cowardly.

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the mind > emotion > calmness > meekness or mildness > [adjective]

stillc825

tamec888

mildeOE

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meekc1325

lambishc1374

meeklyc1375

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temperatec1380

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gall-lessa1398

mansuetea1425

meeta1425

unwrathful1542

rageless1578

lamb-like?1592

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pigeon-livered1604

placid1614

spleenless?1615

passive1616

unprovokable1646

milken1648

uncaptious1661

stomachless1727

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pianoa1817

ireless1829

unquarrelsome1830

quiet-goinga1835

uncholeric1834

unoffendable1839

baby-milda1845

quiet-tempered1846

turtlish1855

pathic1857

the mind > emotion > fear > cowardice or pusillanimity > [adjective]

arghc885

heartlessOE

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faintc1300

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comfortless1387

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white-hearted1598

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undaring1611

lily-livereda1616

yarrow1616

flightful1626

chicken-hearted1629

poltroon1649

cow-hearted1660

whey-blooded1675

unbravea1681

nimble-heeled1719

dunghill1775

shrimp-hearted1796

chicken-livered1804

white-feathered1816

pluckless1821

chicken-spirited1822

milk-blooded1822

cowardy1836

yellow1856

yellow-livered1857

putty-hearted1872

uncourageous1878

chicken1883

piker1901

yellow-bellied1907

manso1932

scaredy-cat1933

chickenshit1940

cold-footed1944

the world > life > sex and gender > female > effeminacy > [adjective]

womanly?c1225

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effeminatea1393

nicea1393

softc1450

manlessa1529

unmanly1534

cockney1573

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emasculate1622

womanized1624

softly1643

womanlish1647

unmasculine1649

emollid1656

ladylike1656

enervated1660

emasculated1701

petticoated1708

tea-faced1728

effeminized1789

invirile1870

epicene1881

sissyish1889

sissified1898

devirilized1901

cockless1902

camp1909

pansy1929

campy1932

queenly1933

poncy1937

pansyish1941

swishy1941

moffie1954

poofy1956

femme1963

poofed-up1964

minty1965

ponced-up1970

lavender1979

1602 2nd Pt. Returne from Pernassus (Arb.) i. iv. 17 See what a little vermine pouerty altereth a whole milkie disposition.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) iii. i. 53 Has friendship such a faint and milkie heart, It turnes in lesse then two nights?

1658 T. Manton Pract. Comm. Jude 20 Peter writeth in a milky, sweet, middle way.

1764 S. Foote Patron iii. 60 If you find the audience too indulgent, inclin'd to be milky, [etc.].

1783 H. Cowley Bold Stroke for Husband i. ii. 8 I long to set a pattern to those milky wives, whose mean compliance degrades the sex.

1813 Ld. Byron Let. 5 Sept. (1974) III. 107 They made..me (the milkiest of men) a satirist.

1883 J. Parker Tyne Chylde 3 People who..spoke a soft and milky language.

1884 W. C. Smith Kildrostan 92 I hate Your meek and milky girls, that dare not kiss A burning passion, clinging to your lips.

1938 G. Greene Brighton Rock ii. i. 62 I'm not milky... I just don't want another killing.

1969 H. Carvic Miss Seeton draws Line ix. 171 ‘Getting milky?’ scoffed Doris.

1990 M. Harris Hemingway's Suitcase xiv. 90 He had known from the moment he saw this milky red-headed man get out of his car that this was what he would say.

b. Chiefly poetic. Of a sound: mellifluously soft, pleasant.

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1924 E. Sitwell Sleeping Beauty x. 38 Goats gold as wheat With a kind white milky bleat.

1925 E. Sitwell Troy Park 76 A white bird sang a milky song Of easy heaven and feathered rest.

2000 Opera Now Jan. 95/1 Few singers have ever possessed such a fine, fluent, almost milky upper register, capable of calming the most savage critical breast.

Compounds

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milky-blue adj.

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a1794 S. Blamire Poet. Wks. (1842) 171 While the bright sun in state retires, Not yet extinguishing his fires, But leaves a tint of saffron hue, With a melting stream of milky blue.

1881 W. D. Gallagher Miami Woods v. 69 Fields then lie bare; the skies grow milky-blue; The streams run lazily; the tiniest child Can jump the brooks, or wade them dry at knee.

1925 H. Crane Let. 10 July (1965) 209 We picked blueberries..the beautiful milky-blue fruit.

1988 P. Wayburn Adventuring in Alaska (rev. ed.) iii. 212 The lake itself is milky blue with glacial till, and very cold.

milky-coloured adj.

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1904 W. B. Yeats Poems (1906) 268 Hold up your hands to him, that you may pluck That milky-coloured neck out of the noose.

1932 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 62 386 A milky-coloured disc. The underside is partly chipped, partly a natural surface patinated deep yellow ochre.

2000 Observer (Electronic ed.) 14 May 64 We are sitting around the huge, square milky-coloured oak table that dominates Kate Hume's bright and sunny kitchen, and the doorbell has just rung for the third time in five minutes.

† milky-farinaceous adj. Obsolete

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1771 Jrnl. Voy. H.M. Endeavour 52 A large milky farinaceous fruit, which when baked resembles bread both in texture and taste.

1871 E. Smith On Wasting Dis. Infants & Children (2nd U.S. ed.) 252 Milky farinaceous pudding.

1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 411 The most satisfactory diet..is a milky-farinaceous one.

1918 Practitioner Jan. 31 White fish, an egg entrée, any kind of bird, occasional milky farinaceous puddings and souflées are permissible.

milky-looking adj.

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1848 W. M. Thackeray Roundabout Ride in Punch 14 119 a Milky-looking pools.

1862 W. A. Miller Elements Chem. (ed. 2) III. 268 A milky-looking fluid or emulsion.

1996 Guardian 2 Nov. (Winter Food & Drink Suppl.) 16/5 More unusual are sakes that include an emulsion of rice particles, such as the milky-looking Nigori-zake.

milky-sapped adj.

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1870 Bull. Essex Inst. (Salem, Mass.) Jan. 3 Most milky-sapped plants should be regarded with suspicion. The sap of the Oleander is most virulently poisonous.

1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers (N.Y. ed.) 6 Folded upon itself..And milky-sapped, sap that curdles milk and makes ricotta.

1994 Mother Earth News (Electronic ed.) 1 Dec. We've grown..fluffy milkweed ‘parachutes’ into little milky-sapped plants, and have sprouted quite a number of mystery seedlings.

2009 L. J. Nieland & W. F. Finley Lone Star Wildflowers 255 The Zuni Pueblo people and the Lakotas..use the milky-sapped snow-on-the-mountain to encourage milk flow in nursing mothers.

milky-toothed adj.

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1905 E. F. Benson Image in Sand i. 2 Brown-faced, milky-toothed Arabs were there.

1950 R. Sutcliff Chron. Robin Hood x. 195 Next moment the dogs were upon them, red-eyed and milky-toothed.

2003 S. Holman Mammoth Cheese viii. 223 October's cover of American Child magazine sported a milky-toothed, blue-eyed girl dressed as a pumpkin or a piece of candy corn, he couldn't tell which.

milky-watery adj.

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1886 J. R. Rees Pleasures of Book-worm v. 168 Languishing milky-watery young men.

1988 E. O'Brien High Road xvi. 157 Back in time to that milky watery bliss.

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milky cap n. = milk cap n. at milk n.¹ and adj. Compounds 3b.

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the world > plants > particular plants > fungi > [noun] > other fungi

bolet1526

boletus1601

byssus1753

fly-fungus1822

turban-top1828

stilbid1846

empusa1856

Scotch bonnet1861

wolf's-milk1861

lizard's herb1866

fairy ring1870

Malta fungus1870

flowers of tan1882

mycorrhiza1886

fumago1887

milky cap1887

moss-gold1887

oomycete1889

razor strop fungus1893

club-fungusa1909

sulphur tuft1909

bolete1914

old man of the woods1972

1887 W. D. Hay Elem. Text-bk. Brit. Fungi 112 Russula lactea, The Milky-cap.

1949 E. L. Palmer Fieldbk. Nat. Hist. 65 Delicious Milky Cap... Some consider this species a favored mushroom.

1985 J. F. Ammirati et al. Poisonous Mushrooms 269 Lactarius rufus... Red milky cap... Fruit bodies often growing in well-drained pine woods.

† milky circle n. [after classical Latin lacteus circulus] Obsolete the Milky Way.

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the world > the universe > constellation > galaxy > [noun] > Milky Way

wayeOE

Watling Streetc1384

galaxya1398

milky circlea1398

Milky Wayc1450

milk way1555

milk-white way1555

white circle1563

milken waya1586

milken race1596

milk circle1601

Via Lactea1615

lacteous circle1646

Milky Way1854

Walsingham Wayc1878

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 108 Þis cercle hatte þe mylky cercle.

1582 T. Watson Ἑκατομπαθία: Passionate Cent. Loue xxxi. sig. D4 Galaxia..is a white way or milky Circle in the heauens.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vii. iv. 346 The Galaxia or milky Circle .

† milky fever n. Obsolete rare = milk fever n. 1.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > other fevers

fever hectica1398

emitrichie1398

hectic1398

etisie1527

emphysode fever1547

frenzy-fever1613

purple fever1623

prunella1656

marcid fever1666

remittent1693

feveret1712

rheumatic fever1726

milk fever1739

stationary fever1742

febricula1746

milky fever1747

camp-disease1753

camp-fever1753

sun fever1765

recurrent fever1768

rose fever1782

tooth-fever1788

sensitive fever1794

forest-fever1799

white leg1801

hill-fever1804

Walcheren fever1810

Mediterranean fever1816

malignant1825

relapsing fever1828

rose cold1831

date fever1836

rose catarrh1845

Walcheren ague1847

mountain fever1849

mill fever1850

Malta fever1863

bilge-fever1867

Oroya fever1873

hyperpyrexia1875

famine-fever1876

East Coast fever1881

spirillum fevera1883

kala azar1883

black water1884

febricule1887

urine fever1888

undulant fever1896

rabbit fever1898

rat bite fever1910

Rhodesian sleeping sickness1911

sandfly fever1911

tularaemia1921

sodoku1926

brucellosis1930

Rift Valley fever1931

Zika1952

Lassa fever1970

Marburg1983

1747 tr. J. Astruc Academical Lect. Fevers 355 A fever, with a swelling of the breasts can be taken for no other than a milky fever.

milky grain n. attributive designating the stage in the development of grain crops at which the immature grain is pale and moist in consistency (cf. sense 2c).

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1973 New Phytologist 72 115 The barley variety N.P.13 is an early maturing variety... The period 70–80 days thus corresponds with heading and early milky grain stages.

1999 Jrnl. Agronomy & Crop Sci. 182 99 The amounts of microelements expressed on a dry matter basis decreased significantly in a late stage of milky grain maturation.

† milky-hedge n. Obsolete = milk hedge n. at milk n.¹ and adj. Compounds 3b.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > spurges and allies > [noun]

physic nut1657

milk-bush1696

milk-tree1698

poison-bush1740

jatropha1754

milky-hedge1773

milk hedge1780

chandelier plant1827

Jew bush1830

candelabrum1834

poinsettia1836

slipper-plant1848

coquillo1851

zebra poison1871

oil tree1879

picture-tree1885

slipper spurs1887

monkey fiddle1913

milk plant1965

stringwood-

1773 E. Ives Voy. India App. II. 462 Milky Hedge. This is rather a shrub, which they plant for hedges on the coast of Coromandel.

1797 Encycl. Brit. XII. 23/2 Milky-Hedge, the English name of a shrub growing on the coast of Coromandel.

milky mangrove n. the mangrove Excoecaria agallocha (family Euphorbiaceae) of tropical Asia and Australasia, which has an irritating milky sap; also called river poison-tree (see poison tree n.).

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1888 Proc. Linn. Soc. New S. Wales 3 380 Excaecaria agallocha..‘Milky mangrove’, ‘Blind-your-eyes’.

1934 Bulletin (Sydney) 15 Aug. 21/2 Gympie isn't as dangerous as the milky mangrove... A drop of sap in the eye will cause blindness.

1981 D. Levitt Plants & People 31 A float..was made from the wood of the Milky Mangrove.

† milky parsley n. Obsolete = milk parsley n.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Umbelliferae (umbellifers) > [noun] > Cambridge milk parsley

milky parsley1640

milk parsley1787

the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Umbelliferae (umbellifers) > [noun] > hog's fennel and allies

swine's fennel?a1425

swine's finkle?a1450

hog's fennel1525

dog fennel1526

harstrang1562

mountain parsley1578

sow-fennel1578

sulphurwort1578

much good1597

rock parsley1597

milky parsley1640

brimstone-wort1678

marsh milkweed1787

milk parsley1787

sea sulphur-wort1807

sea sulphur-weed1850

sulphur-weed1850

sea hog's-fennel1855

1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 928 I have entituled it..Wild milkie Parsley.

1759 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. (ed. 7) at Selinum Milky Parsley.

1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 321 Milky Parsley, Selinum.

1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 293 Marsh Milkweed. Wild Parsley. Wild Milky Parsley.

† milky scall n. Obsolete = milk crust n. at milk n.¹ and adj. Compounds 3a; cf. milk scall n. at milk n.¹ and adj. Compounds 3a.

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1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 626 Whence the French name of croute de lait, and our own of milky-scall.

1833 R. Dunglison New Dict. Med. Sci. II. 204/1 Porrigo Larvalis, Crusta lactea..Tinea lactea, Milky scall or Tetter... It commonly appears..in an eruption of numerous, minute, whitish achores on a red surface.

milky sea n. = milk sea n. at milk n.¹ and adj. Compounds 3a.

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the world > matter > light > light emitted under particular conditions > [noun] > phosphorescence > of the sea > phosphorescent light on or in the sea

briny1602

sea-light1755

sea-fire1815

milky sea1821

mareel1866

mar-fire1881

milk sea1898

witch-fire1947

1710 T. Brown tr. Lucian True Hist. in Wks. III. 157 On the eighth day we were got out of this milky Sea, and came again to Salt Water.]

1821 J. Davy Acct. Interior of Ceylon i. vii. 195 It was with his assistance that the gods and Asooras churned the milky sea.

1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xlii. 216 The muffled rollings of a milky sea.

1871 C. Kingsley At Last I. i. 9 That most rare and unexplained phenomenon of a ‘milky sea’.

2000 Sun (Nexis) 3 Oct. For centuries sailors have reported ‘milky seas’ caused by masses of tiny glowing organisms.

† milky tree n. Obsolete = milk-tree n.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > yielding refreshing or nourishing drink > [noun] > cow-tree

milky tree1666

cow-tree1830

milk-tree1830

1666 J. Davies tr. C. de Rochefort Hist. Caribby-Islands 49 Others have venemous qualities, as the Milkie tree.

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 1237 An inferior kind of indigo, prepared from the leaves of W[rightia] tinctoria in some parts of Southern India, is called Pala Indigo, from Pala or Palay, the Tamil name for this and some allied milky trees.

† milky vein n. Anatomy Obsolete a lacteal (cf. lacteal adj. 2).

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?c1425Melky veyne [see sense 2a].

1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 4 Obstruction of the Vessels, especially of the Pancreas, and fault of the milky veins.

milky-white adj. (and n.) (a) = milk-white adj.; also as n.; (b) resembling milk in water, cloudy, opaque.

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the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > [adjective] > pure white > as milk

milk-whiteOE

as white as milkOE

milkisha1398

milkya1398

milkc1450

milky-white1581

milkena1586

lacteal1633

lacteous1646

lactaceous1656

lactean1659

lactescent1758

milchy1890

1581 J. Maplet Diall Destiny sig. Kij^v, (table) Galaxia or the milky white way of the Ayer in the cleare nights.

1651 W. Davenant Gondibert ii. vi. xlv. 189 From Paros Isle, was brought the milkie white [marble]; From Sparta, came the Green, w^ch cheers the view.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 114 With Fleeces milky white .

1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey III. x. 365 Black was the root, but milky white the flow'r.

1800 tr. E. J. B. Bouillon-Lagrange Man. Course Chem. II. 67 The result is a milky white opake glass, called White Enamel.

1869 G. Lawson Dis. Eye (1874) 157 A piece of tough milky white looking lens capsule.

1915 W. Cather Song of Lark i. i. 10 He thought to himself what a beautiful thing a little girl's body was... It was so neatly and delicately fashioned, so soft, and so milky white.

1981 D. Potter Pennies from Heaven xviii. 110 And his eyes..went milky white.

2012 F. Vignola et al. Solar & Infrared Radiation Measurem. vi. 161 Although the sun's disk appears red for these hazy conditions, skylight appears not blue but milky white, especially near the horizon.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	milky
释义	milkyadj. Brit. /ˈmɪlki/, U.S. /ˈmɪlki/ Forms: see milk n.¹ and -y suffix¹; also Scottish pre-1700 milkky. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: milk n.¹, -y suffix¹. Etymology: < milk n.¹ + -y suffix¹. 1. a. Having the appearance of milk, or of water into which milk has been dropped; milklike in consistency; resembling milk in colour, milk-white. Also (of a gem, glass, liquid, etc.): cloudy, opaque. Cf. Milky Way n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > [adjective] > pure white > as milk milk-whiteOE as white as milkOE milkisha1398 milkya1398 milkc1450 milky-white1581 milkena1586 lacteal1633 lacteous1646 lactaceous1656 lactean1659 lactescent1758 milchy1890 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 59^v Ȝelouȝ colour & melky & oþur suche tokeneþ feblenes of hete. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 180^v Þerefore sibille calleth hem [sc. the French] galles, þat is white, and seith þanne mylky nekkes shal be mynede. 1526 Grete Herball cccclxxxix. sig. Bbv^v/2 The chese whiche is fresshe & mylky is better to eate. 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 76 The Caladrius sayth Aristotle is of milkie colour, without any black spot. 1653 tr. F. Carmeni Nissena 8 Lips of Coral... Eyes brighter then the Sun, Milky hands; such..were the ravishing graces. a1678 A. Marvell Gallery in Misc. Poems (1681) 23 Like to Aurora in the Dawn; When in the East she slumb'ring lyes, And stretches out her milky Thighs. 1758 A. Reid tr. P. J. Macquer Elements Theory & Pract. Chym. I. 395 With regard to the white powder that renders the solution milky..it is nothing but a portion of the Lead. 1791 F. W. Herschel in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 81 81 A star with a pretty strong milky nebulosity. 1791 F. W. Herschel in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 81 85 Tinged with milky nebulosity. 1818–20 E. Thompson Cullen's Nosologia (ed. 3) 226 A milky humour like chyle. 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam cxiii. 178 The flocks are whiter down the vale, And milkier every milky sail. View more context for this quotation 1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 82 The liquid becomes milky as the carbonic acid gas..bubbles through. 1909 F. W. Taylor & S. E. Thompson Treat. Concrete (ed. 2) xv. 303 The milky laitance which appears on concrete laid under water represents an actual loss of cement. 1960 O. Manning Great Fortune iv. 281 A few elms rose out of the hedges into a milky sky. 1987 Which? Nov. 537/2 Colours on crockery fade, and glassware acquires a ‘milky’ appearance. b. In plants and fruits: designating juice and sap which resembles milk. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > plant substances > [adjective] > having or yielding a milky fluid > milky (of the fluid) milkya1398 lactescent1815 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 208^v Trees beeþ dyuers..and þe cause is in grete trees humour þat is mylky, as it fareþ in figge trees. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) iv. ix. 85 Spryngand herbys..with brasyn hukis cuttit..To get thar mylky sap. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 109^v The sappe..in the Figge tree..is milkie. 1661 E. Hickeringill Jamaica 24 The Coco Nuts..in whose content, is barrell'd up..a milky liquor. 1766 Compl. Farmer at Sap In plants, particularly in such as abound with a milky sap. 1855 Sir E. Smith in Syst. Nat. Hist. I. 30 The latex, or milky fluid, is of immense service to man. 1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 184 The slightly milky latex. 1930 R. Macaulay Staying with Relations ix. 127 The milky juice of the poison~wood tree. 1986 J. A. Samson Trop. Fruits (ed. 2) iv. 140 The banana..is a tree-like herb..from two to six metre high, with milky juice in all parts. 1993 Your Garden May 66/2 You will find the plant ‘bleeds’ milky sap—this is irritant, so keep well away from eyes and mouth and wash your hands afterwards. c. Of developing grain: having a moist consistency likened to milk. Also: designating the stage in the development of grain crops at which the immature grain is pale and moist in consistency. See also milky grain n. at Compounds 2. Cf. in the milk at milk n.¹ 2b. ΚΠ 1705 R. Beverley Hist. Virginia iii. iv. 15 They delight much to feed on Roasting-ears; that is, the Indian Corn, gathered green and milky..and roasted before the Fire, in the Ear. 1768 G. Washington Diary (1925) I. 282 Some [wheat] whose straw and head was green but the grain of full size and Milky. 1789 J. 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. 1893 Science 29 Sept. 172/1 The ear should be allowed to develop until the grain has reached the ‘milky’ stage. 1979 Jrnl. Appl. Ecol. 16 29 Rice was eaten by birds at all stages of ripening from the milky stage onwards. 1995 New Phytologist 131 242/2 Ozone doses were calculated..for the period 4 July until 16 August, i.e. from anthesis to the end of grain filling, i.e. the milky ripe stage. 2. a. Medicine. Containing chyle (or a white fluid resembling chyle). ΚΠ ?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 67 (MED) Bytwene it [sc. the uterus] and þo tetes beeþ melky and menstrual veynes contynued. 1663 R. Boyle Some Considerations Usefulnesse Exper. Nat. Philos. ii. i. 10 The discoveries of the milky Vessels in the Mesentery by Asellius. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 449 Such cases are described as milky, non-fatty ascites. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 450 It is probable that non-fatty milky pleural effusions also occur. 1985 Clinics in Chest Med. 6 163 Both chylothorax and pseudochylothorax are characterized by milky or turbid pleural effusions. 1997 Hosp. Pract. 15 Aug. 39 (title) Milky ascites in a former whiskey runner. b. gen. Containing or mixed with milk; having much milk; yielding milk. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > [adjective] > yielding milk milchc1300 milky1557 new-milch1569 milkful1589 glad-milch1601 milchy1606 blithe1656 in milk1797 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > breast or breasts (of woman) > [adjective] > types of milky1557 milkful1589 full-breasted1611 liberal?1624 milkless1636 busty1867 bosomful1870 pneumatic1910 bosomy1928 top-heavy1934 breasty1937 well-endowed1951 chesty1955 1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes sig. O.iiii^v With my lips, your milky paps I straynd. 1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper ii. 103 The milkie fruitfulnesse of the Cow. 1714 J. Gay Shepherd's Week i. 78 As my Buxoma..With gentle finger strok'd her milky care. 1798 W. Wordsworth Female Vagrant in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 81 For them, in nature's meads, the milky udder flowed. 1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. ix. 272 Argos, richly stocked In milky kine. 1975 ‘C. Aird’ Slight Mourning ii. 18 Sloan's own nightcap was usually milky coffee. 1989 New Scientist 18 Mar. 51/1 The son of the world's milkiest cow may sire female calves..that can barely manage to fill a jug. c. Botany. Of a plant, or part of one: containing or producing juice or sap which resembles milk. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > plant substances > [adjective] > having or yielding a milky fluid lactary1646 milky1646 lactific1657 lactescent1673 lactiferous1675 lactifluous1777 lactarious1855 lactory- 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vi. x. 323 Why also from Lactary or milky plants which have a white and lacteous juice dispersed through every part, there arise flowers blue and yellow? View more context for this quotation 1765 G. Washington Diary (1925) I. 210 Note, the [mulberry] Stocks were very Milkey. 1770 G. White Let. 8 Oct. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 135 Milky plants, such as lettuces, dandelions, sowthistles, are it's [sc. a land tortoise] favourite dish. 1832 E. Lankester Veg. Substances Food 191 The stem, which is milky, is peeled and eaten raw by the Laplanders. 1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. ii. iii. 583 The Goodenia Order.—Herbs or rarely shrubs, not milky. 1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 432 In milky plants provided with phloemportions..these also are accompanied by laticiferous tubes. 1956 Dict. Gardening (Royal Hort. Soc.) (ed. 2) I. 22/1 Resembles A. campestre in general appearance, but that species differs in its 5-lobed l[eaf] with milky stalks. 1996 R. Mabey Flora Britannica 355/2 [Vernacular names] for thistles in general: Dashels, Milky Dashels, [etc.]. d. Of an oyster: full of spawn. Cf. milk n.¹ 4b. ΚΠ 1865 Chambers's Encycl. VII. 177/1 From 3000 to 4000 [eggs] exist within an O[yster] at once when ‘sick’, ‘milky’ or full of spawn. 1997 San Francisco Examiner (Nexis) 12 Feb. z1 Winter is the oyster season, months with ‘R’ and all that, the colder water, the fact that oysters spawn and get ‘milky’ in the summer months. †e. Of food: promoting the production of milk. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1886 C. Scott Pract. Sheep-farming 50 Cabbages..are also preferable..for ewes at lambing time, and are very ‘milky’. 3. Of or consisting of milk. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > [adjective] > relating to milk milkeneOE milkyc1449 lactary1646 lacteal1753 lactic1789 milchig1904 c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 558 And if he wolde forbere fisch and mylky mete in ech Friday in the Lente [etc.]. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum sig. Uii^v/2 Milkye meates, or meates made of milke. Lactaria. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 110 The sallacious Goat..twice as largely yields her milky Store. View more context for this quotation 1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure II. 248 Kind nature engages infants at the breast, by the pleasure they find in the motion of their little mouths and cheeks, to extract the milky stream prepar'd for their nourishment. 1791 A. Radcliffe Romance of Forest III. xxxv. 339 Several peasant girls..were dispensing the milky feast. 1881 Austral. Grazier's Guide (S. W. Silver & Co.) II. ii. iv. 12 A longer period of free access to their mothers' milky stores, on the part of the calves, would seriously prejudice the morrow's milk. 1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 411 Digestive incapacity for starch and milky food. 1998 P. Grace Baby No-eyes (1999) xiv. 119 Sometimes it's her baby mess and baby pee, or her milky sick-up that I smell. 4. Extended uses. a. Of a person, or a person's action, attribute, etc.: soft, gentle; (with unfavourable connotation) timorous, weak, compliant; effeminate. Also in recent slang use: cowardly. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > calmness > meekness or mildness > [adjective] stillc825 tamec888 mildeOE lithea1000 daftc1000 meekc1325 lambishc1374 meeklyc1375 benign1377 temperatec1380 quieta1382 gall-lessa1398 mansuetea1425 meeta1425 unwrathful1542 rageless1578 lamb-like?1592 mildya1603 milky1602 pigeon-livered1604 placid1614 spleenless?1615 passive1616 unprovokable1646 milken1648 uncaptious1661 stomachless1727 unindignant1789 pianoa1817 ireless1829 unquarrelsome1830 quiet-goinga1835 uncholeric1834 unoffendable1839 baby-milda1845 quiet-tempered1846 turtlish1855 pathic1857 the mind > emotion > fear > cowardice or pusillanimity > [adjective] arghc885 heartlessOE bloodlessc1225 coward1297 faintc1300 nesha1382 comfortless1387 pusillanimousa1425 faint-heartedc1440 unheartyc1440 cowardous1480 hen-hearteda1529 cowardish1530 feigningc1540 white-livered1546 cowardly1551 faceless1567 pusillanime1570 liver-hearted1571 cowish1579 cowardise1582 coward-like1587 faint-heart1590 courageless1593 sheep-like1596 white-hearted1598 milky1602 milk-livered1608 undaring1611 lily-livereda1616 yarrow1616 flightful1626 chicken-hearted1629 poltroon1649 cow-hearted1660 whey-blooded1675 unbravea1681 nimble-heeled1719 dunghill1775 shrimp-hearted1796 chicken-livered1804 white-feathered1816 pluckless1821 chicken-spirited1822 milk-blooded1822 cowardy1836 yellow1856 yellow-livered1857 putty-hearted1872 uncourageous1878 chicken1883 piker1901 yellow-bellied1907 manso1932 scaredy-cat1933 chickenshit1940 cold-footed1944 the world > life > sex and gender > female > effeminacy > [adjective] womanly?c1225 ferbleta1300 effeminatea1393 nicea1393 softc1450 manlessa1529 unmanly1534 cockney1573 effeminated1580 unmanlikea1586 milky1602 enervate1603 womanizing1615 emasculate1622 womanized1624 softly1643 womanlish1647 unmasculine1649 emollid1656 ladylike1656 enervated1660 emasculated1701 petticoated1708 tea-faced1728 effeminized1789 invirile1870 epicene1881 sissyish1889 sissified1898 devirilized1901 cockless1902 camp1909 pansy1929 campy1932 queenly1933 poncy1937 pansyish1941 swishy1941 moffie1954 poofy1956 femme1963 poofed-up1964 minty1965 ponced-up1970 lavender1979 1602 2nd Pt. Returne from Pernassus (Arb.) i. iv. 17 See what a little vermine pouerty altereth a whole milkie disposition. a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) iii. i. 53 Has friendship such a faint and milkie heart, It turnes in lesse then two nights? View more context for this quotation 1658 T. Manton Pract. Comm. Jude 20 Peter writeth in a milky, sweet, middle way. 1764 S. Foote Patron iii. 60 If you find the audience too indulgent, inclin'd to be milky, [etc.]. 1783 H. Cowley Bold Stroke for Husband i. ii. 8 I long to set a pattern to those milky wives, whose mean compliance degrades the sex. 1813 Ld. Byron Let. 5 Sept. (1974) III. 107 They made..me (the milkiest of men) a satirist. 1883 J. Parker Tyne Chylde 3 People who..spoke a soft and milky language. 1884 W. C. Smith Kildrostan 92 I hate Your meek and milky girls, that dare not kiss A burning passion, clinging to your lips. 1938 G. Greene Brighton Rock ii. i. 62 I'm not milky... I just don't want another killing. 1969 H. Carvic Miss Seeton draws Line ix. 171 ‘Getting milky?’ scoffed Doris. 1990 M. Harris Hemingway's Suitcase xiv. 90 He had known from the moment he saw this milky red-headed man get out of his car that this was what he would say. b. Chiefly poetic. Of a sound: mellifluously soft, pleasant. ΚΠ 1924 E. Sitwell Sleeping Beauty x. 38 Goats gold as wheat With a kind white milky bleat. 1925 E. Sitwell Troy Park 76 A white bird sang a milky song Of easy heaven and feathered rest. 2000 Opera Now Jan. 95/1 Few singers have ever possessed such a fine, fluent, almost milky upper register, capable of calming the most savage critical breast. Compounds C1. milky-blue adj. ΚΠ a1794 S. Blamire Poet. Wks. (1842) 171 While the bright sun in state retires, Not yet extinguishing his fires, But leaves a tint of saffron hue, With a melting stream of milky blue. 1881 W. D. Gallagher Miami Woods v. 69 Fields then lie bare; the skies grow milky-blue; The streams run lazily; the tiniest child Can jump the brooks, or wade them dry at knee. 1925 H. Crane Let. 10 July (1965) 209 We picked blueberries..the beautiful milky-blue fruit. 1988 P. Wayburn Adventuring in Alaska (rev. ed.) iii. 212 The lake itself is milky blue with glacial till, and very cold. milky-coloured adj. ΚΠ 1904 W. B. Yeats Poems (1906) 268 Hold up your hands to him, that you may pluck That milky-coloured neck out of the noose. 1932 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 62 386 A milky-coloured disc. The underside is partly chipped, partly a natural surface patinated deep yellow ochre. 2000 Observer (Electronic ed.) 14 May 64 We are sitting around the huge, square milky-coloured oak table that dominates Kate Hume's bright and sunny kitchen, and the doorbell has just rung for the third time in five minutes. † milky-farinaceous adj. Obsolete ΚΠ 1771 Jrnl. Voy. H.M. Endeavour 52 A large milky farinaceous fruit, which when baked resembles bread both in texture and taste. 1871 E. Smith On Wasting Dis. Infants & Children (2nd U.S. ed.) 252 Milky farinaceous pudding. 1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 411 The most satisfactory diet..is a milky-farinaceous one. 1918 Practitioner Jan. 31 White fish, an egg entrée, any kind of bird, occasional milky farinaceous puddings and souflées are permissible. milky-looking adj. ΚΠ 1848 W. M. Thackeray Roundabout Ride in Punch 14 119 a Milky-looking pools. 1862 W. A. Miller Elements Chem. (ed. 2) III. 268 A milky-looking fluid or emulsion. 1996 Guardian 2 Nov. (Winter Food & Drink Suppl.) 16/5 More unusual are sakes that include an emulsion of rice particles, such as the milky-looking Nigori-zake. milky-sapped adj. ΚΠ 1870 Bull. Essex Inst. (Salem, Mass.) Jan. 3 Most milky-sapped plants should be regarded with suspicion. The sap of the Oleander is most virulently poisonous. 1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers (N.Y. ed.) 6 Folded upon itself..And milky-sapped, sap that curdles milk and makes ricotta. 1994 Mother Earth News (Electronic ed.) 1 Dec. We've grown..fluffy milkweed ‘parachutes’ into little milky-sapped plants, and have sprouted quite a number of mystery seedlings. 2009 L. J. Nieland & W. F. Finley Lone Star Wildflowers 255 The Zuni Pueblo people and the Lakotas..use the milky-sapped snow-on-the-mountain to encourage milk flow in nursing mothers. milky-toothed adj. ΚΠ 1905 E. F. Benson Image in Sand i. 2 Brown-faced, milky-toothed Arabs were there. 1950 R. Sutcliff Chron. Robin Hood x. 195 Next moment the dogs were upon them, red-eyed and milky-toothed. 2003 S. Holman Mammoth Cheese viii. 223 October's cover of American Child magazine sported a milky-toothed, blue-eyed girl dressed as a pumpkin or a piece of candy corn, he couldn't tell which. milky-watery adj. ΚΠ 1886 J. R. Rees Pleasures of Book-worm v. 168 Languishing milky-watery young men. 1988 E. O'Brien High Road xvi. 157 Back in time to that milky watery bliss. C2. milky cap n. = milk cap n. at milk n.¹ and adj. Compounds 3b. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > fungi > [noun] > other fungi bolet1526 boletus1601 byssus1753 fly-fungus1822 turban-top1828 stilbid1846 empusa1856 Scotch bonnet1861 wolf's-milk1861 lizard's herb1866 fairy ring1870 Malta fungus1870 flowers of tan1882 mycorrhiza1886 fumago1887 milky cap1887 moss-gold1887 oomycete1889 razor strop fungus1893 club-fungusa1909 sulphur tuft1909 bolete1914 old man of the woods1972 1887 W. D. Hay Elem. Text-bk. Brit. Fungi 112 Russula lactea, The Milky-cap. 1949 E. L. Palmer Fieldbk. Nat. Hist. 65 Delicious Milky Cap... Some consider this species a favored mushroom. 1985 J. F. Ammirati et al. Poisonous Mushrooms 269 Lactarius rufus... Red milky cap... Fruit bodies often growing in well-drained pine woods. † milky circle n. [after classical Latin lacteus circulus] Obsolete the Milky Way. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > constellation > galaxy > [noun] > Milky Way wayeOE Watling Streetc1384 galaxya1398 milky circlea1398 Milky Wayc1450 milk way1555 milk-white way1555 white circle1563 milken waya1586 milken race1596 milk circle1601 Via Lactea1615 lacteous circle1646 Milky Way1854 Walsingham Wayc1878 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 108 Þis cercle hatte þe mylky cercle. 1582 T. Watson Ἑκατομπαθία: Passionate Cent. Loue xxxi. sig. D4 Galaxia..is a white way or milky Circle in the heauens. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vii. iv. 346 The Galaxia or milky Circle . View more context for this quotation † milky fever n. Obsolete rare = milk fever n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > other fevers fever hectica1398 emitrichie1398 hectic1398 etisie1527 emphysode fever1547 frenzy-fever1613 purple fever1623 prunella1656 marcid fever1666 remittent1693 feveret1712 rheumatic fever1726 milk fever1739 stationary fever1742 febricula1746 milky fever1747 camp-disease1753 camp-fever1753 sun fever1765 recurrent fever1768 rose fever1782 tooth-fever1788 sensitive fever1794 forest-fever1799 white leg1801 hill-fever1804 Walcheren fever1810 Mediterranean fever1816 malignant1825 relapsing fever1828 rose cold1831 date fever1836 rose catarrh1845 Walcheren ague1847 mountain fever1849 mill fever1850 Malta fever1863 bilge-fever1867 Oroya fever1873 hyperpyrexia1875 famine-fever1876 East Coast fever1881 spirillum fevera1883 kala azar1883 black water1884 febricule1887 urine fever1888 undulant fever1896 rabbit fever1898 rat bite fever1910 Rhodesian sleeping sickness1911 sandfly fever1911 tularaemia1921 sodoku1926 brucellosis1930 Rift Valley fever1931 Zika1952 Lassa fever1970 Marburg1983 1747 tr. J. Astruc Academical Lect. Fevers 355 A fever, with a swelling of the breasts can be taken for no other than a milky fever. milky grain n. attributive designating the stage in the development of grain crops at which the immature grain is pale and moist in consistency (cf. sense 2c). ΚΠ 1973 New Phytologist 72 115 The barley variety N.P.13 is an early maturing variety... The period 70–80 days thus corresponds with heading and early milky grain stages. 1999 Jrnl. Agronomy & Crop Sci. 182 99 The amounts of microelements expressed on a dry matter basis decreased significantly in a late stage of milky grain maturation. † milky-hedge n. Obsolete = milk hedge n. at milk n.¹ and adj. Compounds 3b. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > spurges and allies > [noun] physic nut1657 milk-bush1696 milk-tree1698 poison-bush1740 jatropha1754 milky-hedge1773 milk hedge1780 chandelier plant1827 Jew bush1830 candelabrum1834 poinsettia1836 slipper-plant1848 coquillo1851 zebra poison1871 oil tree1879 picture-tree1885 slipper spurs1887 monkey fiddle1913 milk plant1965 stringwood- 1773 E. Ives Voy. India App. II. 462 Milky Hedge. This is rather a shrub, which they plant for hedges on the coast of Coromandel. 1797 Encycl. Brit. XII. 23/2 Milky-Hedge, the English name of a shrub growing on the coast of Coromandel. milky mangrove n. the mangrove Excoecaria agallocha (family Euphorbiaceae) of tropical Asia and Australasia, which has an irritating milky sap; also called river poison-tree (see poison tree n.). ΚΠ 1888 Proc. Linn. Soc. New S. Wales 3 380 Excaecaria agallocha..‘Milky mangrove’, ‘Blind-your-eyes’. 1934 Bulletin (Sydney) 15 Aug. 21/2 Gympie isn't as dangerous as the milky mangrove... A drop of sap in the eye will cause blindness. 1981 D. Levitt Plants & People 31 A float..was made from the wood of the Milky Mangrove. † milky parsley n. Obsolete = milk parsley n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Umbelliferae (umbellifers) > [noun] > Cambridge milk parsley milky parsley1640 milk parsley1787 the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Umbelliferae (umbellifers) > [noun] > hog's fennel and allies swine's fennel?a1425 swine's finkle?a1450 hog's fennel1525 dog fennel1526 harstrang1562 mountain parsley1578 sow-fennel1578 sulphurwort1578 much good1597 rock parsley1597 milky parsley1640 brimstone-wort1678 marsh milkweed1787 milk parsley1787 sea sulphur-wort1807 sea sulphur-weed1850 sulphur-weed1850 sea hog's-fennel1855 1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 928 I have entituled it..Wild milkie Parsley. 1759 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. (ed. 7) at Selinum Milky Parsley. 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 321 Milky Parsley, Selinum. 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 293 Marsh Milkweed. Wild Parsley. Wild Milky Parsley. † milky scall n. Obsolete = milk crust n. at milk n.¹ and adj. Compounds 3a; cf. milk scall n. at milk n.¹ and adj. Compounds 3a. ΚΠ 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 626 Whence the French name of croute de lait, and our own of milky-scall. 1833 R. Dunglison New Dict. Med. Sci. II. 204/1 Porrigo Larvalis, Crusta lactea..Tinea lactea, Milky scall or Tetter... It commonly appears..in an eruption of numerous, minute, whitish achores on a red surface. milky sea n. = milk sea n. at milk n.¹ and adj. Compounds 3a. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > light emitted under particular conditions > [noun] > phosphorescence > of the sea > phosphorescent light on or in the sea briny1602 sea-light1755 sea-fire1815 milky sea1821 mareel1866 mar-fire1881 milk sea1898 witch-fire1947 1710 T. Brown tr. Lucian True Hist. in Wks. III. 157 On the eighth day we were got out of this milky Sea, and came again to Salt Water.] 1821 J. Davy Acct. Interior of Ceylon i. vii. 195 It was with his assistance that the gods and Asooras churned the milky sea. 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xlii. 216 The muffled rollings of a milky sea. 1871 C. Kingsley At Last I. i. 9 That most rare and unexplained phenomenon of a ‘milky sea’. 2000 Sun (Nexis) 3 Oct. For centuries sailors have reported ‘milky seas’ caused by masses of tiny glowing organisms. † milky tree n. Obsolete = milk-tree n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > yielding refreshing or nourishing drink > [noun] > cow-tree milky tree1666 cow-tree1830 milk-tree1830 1666 J. Davies tr. C. de Rochefort Hist. Caribby-Islands 49 Others have venemous qualities, as the Milkie tree. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 1237 An inferior kind of indigo, prepared from the leaves of W[rightia] tinctoria in some parts of Southern India, is called Pala Indigo, from Pala or Palay, the Tamil name for this and some allied milky trees. † milky vein n. Anatomy Obsolete a lacteal (cf. lacteal adj. 2). ΚΠ ?c1425Melky veyne [see sense 2a]. 1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 4 Obstruction of the Vessels, especially of the Pancreas, and fault of the milky veins. milky-white adj. (and n.) (a) = milk-white adj.; also as n.; (b) resembling milk in water, cloudy, opaque. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > [adjective] > pure white > as milk milk-whiteOE as white as milkOE milkisha1398 milkya1398 milkc1450 milky-white1581 milkena1586 lacteal1633 lacteous1646 lactaceous1656 lactean1659 lactescent1758 milchy1890 1581 J. Maplet Diall Destiny sig. Kij^v, (table) Galaxia or the milky white way of the Ayer in the cleare nights. 1651 W. Davenant Gondibert ii. vi. xlv. 189 From Paros Isle, was brought the milkie white [marble]; From Sparta, came the Green, w^ch cheers the view. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 114 With Fleeces milky white . View more context for this quotation 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey III. x. 365 Black was the root, but milky white the flow'r. 1800 tr. E. J. B. Bouillon-Lagrange Man. Course Chem. II. 67 The result is a milky white opake glass, called White Enamel. 1869 G. Lawson Dis. Eye (1874) 157 A piece of tough milky white looking lens capsule. 1915 W. Cather Song of Lark i. i. 10 He thought to himself what a beautiful thing a little girl's body was... It was so neatly and delicately fashioned, so soft, and so milky white. 1981 D. Potter Pennies from Heaven xviii. 110 And his eyes..went milky white. 2012 F. Vignola et al. Solar & Infrared Radiation Measurem. vi. 161 Although the sun's disk appears red for these hazy conditions, skylight appears not blue but milky white, especially near the horizon. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1398
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