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In the widest sense, the whole military force of a nation, including both those engaged in military service as a business, and those competent and available for such service; specifically, the body of citizens enrolled for military instruction and discipline, but not subject to be called into actual service except in e…

One who belongs to the militia.

To carry on, or prepare for, war. [Obs.] Walpole.

by the mammary glands of female mammals for the nourishment of their young, consisting of minute globules of fat suspended in a solution of casein, albumin, milk sugar, and inorganic salts. "White as morne milk." Chaucer.

meat or dairy products of infected cattle. Its chief symptoms in man are uncontrollable vomiting, obstinate constipation, pain, and muscular tremors. Its origin in cattle has been variously ascribed to the presence of certain plants in their food, and to polluted water.

A leguminous herb (Astragalus glycyphyllos) of Europe and Asia, supposed to increase the secretion of milk in goats.

White-livered; cowardly; timorous.

Consisting of milk. [Obs.]

One who milks; also, a mechanical apparatus for milking cows.

Full of milk; abounding with food. [R.] "Milkful vales." Sylvester.

In a milky manner.

State or quality of being milky.

A woman who milks cows or is employed in the dairy.

A man who sells milk or delivers is to customers.

A piece of bread sopped in milk; figuratively, an effeminate or weak-minded person. Shak. To wed a milksop or a coward ape. Chaucer.

Any plant of the genera Asclepias and Acerates, abounding in a milky juice, and having its seed attached to a long silky down; silkweed. The name is also applied to several other plants with a milky juice, as to several kinds of spurge.

es. The common European P. vulgaris was supposed to have the power of producing a flow of milk in nurses.

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

ain, by rubbing and crushing it between two hard, rough, or intented surfaces; as, a gristmill, a coffee mill; a bone mill.

The incorporated materials for gunpowder, in the form of a dense mass or cake, ready to be subjected to the process of granulation.