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A woven silk stuff with transparent and colored figures; diaper work.

The quality or state of being dilute. Bp. Wilkins.

The subject matter of instruction; a branch of knowledge. Bp. Wilkins.

A small genus of perennial herbaceous plants, with poisonous milky juice, bearing slender pods pods in pairs.

A powder of ipecac and opium, compounded, in the United States, with sugar of milk, but in England (as formerly in the United States) with sulphate of potash, and in France (as in Dr. Dover's original prescription) with nitrate and sulphate of potash and licorice. It is an anodyne diaphoretic.

To drain by emptying; to suck dry. Sucking and drawing the breast dischargeth the milk as fast as it can generated. Wiseman.

A lady's gown; as, silk or a velvet dress.

women and girls; -- most commonly to fabrics of mixed materials, but also applicable to silks, printed linens, and calicoes.

Gum, starch, and the like, used in stiffening or finishing silk, linen, and other fabrics.

To swallow (a liquid); to receive, as a fluid, into the stomach; to imbibe; as, to drink milk or water. There lies she with the blessed gods in bliss, There drinks the nectar with ambrosia mixed. Spenser. The bowl of punch which was brewed and drunk in Mrs. Betty's room. Thackeray.

The larva of any geometrid moth, which drops from trees by means of a thread of silk, as the cankerworm.

Of animals: Not giving milk; as, the cow is dry.

A commercial name for textile fabrics, cottons, woolens, linen, silks, laces, etc., -- in distinction from groceries. [U.S.]

n certain plants, and produced artificially by the reduction of galactose and lactose or milk sugar.

A double cocoon, made by two silkworms.

uction. See under Auction. -- Dutch cheese, a small, pound, hard cheese, made from skim milk. -- Dutch clinker, a kind of brick made in Holland. It is yellowish, very hard, and long and narrow in shape. -- Dutch clover (Bot.), common white clover (Trifolium repens), the seed of which was largely imported into Englan…

Sharp; sour; acid. [Obs.] "Like eager droppings into milk." Shak.

To curdle, as milk. [Prov. Eng.]

Having the color or appearance of unbleached stuff, as silk, linen, or the like.

tion, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.