MILKY

a.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Consisting of, or containing, milk. Pails high foaming with a milky flood. Pope.

2.
a.

Like, or somewhat like, milk; whitish and turbid; as, the water is milky. "Milky juice." Arbuthnot.

3.
a.

Yielding milk. "Milky mothers." Roscommon.

4.
a.

Mild; tame; spiritless. Has friendship such a faint and milky heart Shak. Milky Way. (Astron.) See Galaxy, 1.


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