milk float noun

A small, open-sided vehicle used to deliver milk on a milk round

milkˈ-gland noun

A mammary gland

milk glass noun

A usu white, but sometimes coloured, opaque glass

milk gravy noun (N American)

Creamy gravy made with milk

milkˈ-house noun

A place for keeping milk

milking machine noun

A machine for milking cows

milking parlour see under parlour

milking stool noun

A stool on which the milker sits

milkˈing-time noun

milkˈ-kinship noun

The bond arising from fostering

milk leg noun

The painful swelling of a woman's leg due to thrombosis of the femoral veins after childbirth, white-leg

milk-livˈered adjective (Shakespeare)

White-livered, cowardly

milk loaf noun

A loaf of a sweetish kind of bread, made with milk rather than water

milkˈmaid noun

A woman or girl who milks cows, or works in a dairy

milkˈman noun

A man who sells or delivers milk

milkˈ-molar noun

A grinding milk tooth, shed and superseded by a premolar

milk pan noun

A saucepan with a pouring lip on one or each side, used for heating milk, etc

milk porridge noun

Porridge made with milk instead of water

milk pudding noun

Rice, tapioca, etc, cooked with milk

milk punch noun

A drink made of milk, rum or whisky, sugar, and nutmeg

milk round noun

1. A milkman's normal morning route
2. A periodic series of visits as in the yearly recruitment of undergraduates by large companies

milk run noun

1. A milkman's morning round
2. A routine flight (orig US Air Force sl)
3. Any routine or uneventful journey or enterprise (slang)

milk shake noun

1. A drink made from cold milk shaken up with a flavouring and sometimes ice cream
2. A stimulating drench containing sodium bicarbonate given to a racehorse before a race (slang)

milk sickness noun

1. Trembles
2. The acute trembling, vomiting and weakness occurring in humans as a result of the consumption of meat or dairy products of cattle afflicted with trembles

milk snake noun

Lampropeltis doliata, a non-venomous N American snake of the Colubridae family, popularly believed to milk sleeping cattle

milkˈsop noun

1. A piece of bread sopped or soaked in milk
2. A soft, unadventurous, effeminate man

milk stout noun

Stout sweetened with lactose

milk sugar noun

Lactose

milk thistle noun

Lady's thistle (Silybum marianum), with white-veined leaves

milk tooth noun

One of the first or deciduous set of teeth

milk train noun

1. A local, early morning train service
2. A slow train stopping at small, local stations
3. An early morning flight or patrol (RAF sl)

milkˈ-tree noun

A tree yielding a milklike nourishing juice, such as the cowtree of Venezuela, or the massaranduba of N Brazil

milk vetch noun

A plant of the genus Astragalus, cultivated as fodder and supposed to increase yield of milk

milkˈ-walk noun

A milkman's round

milkˈ-warm adjective

Warm as new milk

milkˈweed noun

1. A plant of the genus Asclepias, from its milky juice
2. Any of various plants with milky juice (milkweed butterfly the monarch butterfly)

milkˈ-white adjective

milkˈwood noun

Any of various trees producing latex

milkˈwort noun

A plant (producing Polygala) supposed by some to promote the production of milk in women

Milky Way noun

The Galaxy

cry over spilt milk see under cry

in milk

(of an animal) lactating

milk and honey

1. Abundance, plenty
2. Luxury

milk of human kindness (Shakespeare)

Compassionate nature

milk of lime or milk of magnesia

A suspension of calcium hydroxide or magnesium hydroxide in water

milk of sulphur

Precipitated sulphur