milk /milk/

1. A white liquid secreted by female mammals for the nourishment of their young
2. A milklike juice or preparation
3. Lactation

1. To squeeze or draw milk from
2. To supply with milk
3. To extract money, venom, etc from
4. To extract
5. To manipulate or exploit, as if milking a cow

To yield milk

milkˈen adjective (rare)

Of or like milk

milkˈer noun

1. A person who milks cows, etc
2. A machine for milking cows
3. A cow that gives milk

milkˈily adverb

milkˈiness noun

1. Cloudiness
2. Mildness

milkˈing noun

1. The act or art of milking (lit or figurative)
2. The amount of milk drawn at one time

Relating to or used for milking

milkˈless adjective

milkˈlike adjective

milkˈy adjective

1. Made of, full of, like, or yielding, milk
2. Clouded
3. Soft
4. Gentle
5. Weak, spineless

milk-and-waˈter adjective

1. Insipid
2. Wishy-washy

milk bar noun

A shop selling milk, milk shakes, etc for drinking on the premises

milk cap noun

Any fungus of the large and mainly inedible genus Lactarius, so called because of a milky fluid that it exudes when bruised

milk chocolate noun

Eating chocolate made from cocoa, cocoa butter, sugar, and condensed or dried milk

milkˈ-cow noun

A milch-cow

milk-dentiˈtion noun

The first set of teeth

milkˈen-way noun (Bacon)

The Milky Way

milk fever noun

1. A fever accompanying the secretion of milk shortly after childbirth
2. In cows, a condition that may occur (without fever) after calving, characterized by low sugar and calcium levels in the blood, paralysis and unconsciousness

milkˈfish noun

1. A large silvery fish (Chanos chanos) of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, widely used as food and often bred in fish farms
2. A percoid fish (Parascorpis typus) of the coastal water of southern Africa

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

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