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A drink consisting of eggs beaten up with sugar, milk, and (usually) wine or spirits.

To milk out; to drain. [Obs.] Bailey.

To convert into an emulsion; to form an emulsion; to reduce from an oily substance to a milky fluid in which the fat globules are in a very finely divided state, giving it the semblance of solution; as, the pancreatic juice emulsifies the oily part of food.

The white milky pulp or extract of bitter almonds. [R.]

Any liquid preparation of a color and consistency resembling milk; as: (a) In pharmacy, an extract of seeds, or a mixture of oil and water united by a mucilaginous substance. (b) In photography, a liquid preparation of collodion holding salt of silver, used in the photographic process.

Softening; milklike.

e action of bromine on fluoresceïn, and named from the fine rose-red which it imparts to silk. It is also used for making a fine red ink. Its solution is fluorescent.

To be equal in weight; to weigh as much as another thing. Bp. Wilkins.

ed by the hair growing upward or outward instead of downward. It is esteemed an index of milking qualities. C. L. Flint.

us of plants of many species, mostly shrubby, herbaceous succulents, affording an acrid, milky juice. Some of them are armed with thorns. Most of them yield powerful emetic and cathartic products.

e sense of seeing; view; observation. Josephus sets this down from his own eyesight. Bp. Wilkins.

d that is woven or knit from fibers, either vegetable or animal; manufactured cloth; as, silks or other fabrics.

A soft silk, heavier than a foulard and not glossy.

An instrument for cooling the person, made of feathers, paper, silk, etc., and often mounted on sticks all turning about the same pivot, so as when opened to radiate from the center and assume the figure of a section of a circle.

ritable purpose. -- Fancy goods, fabrics of various colors, patterns, etc., as ribbons, silks, laces, etc., in distinction from those of a simple or plain color or make. -- Fancy line (Naut.), a line rove through a block at the jaws of a gaff; -- used to haul it down. Fancy roller (Carding Machine), a clothed cylinde…

A quantity of wares, as raw silk, etc., from one hundred weight.

A fabrik made of silk and wool or hair. Simmonds.

A lease of the imposts on particular goods; as, the sugar farm, the silk farm. Whereas G. H. held the farm of sugars upon a rent of 10,000 marks per annum. State Trials (1196).

To touch; to handle; to examine by touching; as, feel this piece of silk; hence, to make trial of; to test; often with out. Come near, . . . that I may feel thee, my son. Gen. xxvii. 21. He hath this to feel my affection to your honor. Shak.

A stuff made of silk and wool. I did buy a colored silk ferrandine. Pepys.