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of projecting ends, twisted or plaited together, and sometimes of loose threads of wool, silk, or linen, or narrow strips of leather, or the like.

A curl of hair or silk; a pad of frizzed hair or silk worn by women under the hair to stuff it out.

Food made of hulled wheat boiled in milk, with sugar, plums, etc. [Written also furmenty and furmity.] Halliwell.

A prop; a fulcrum. [Obs.] Bp. Wilkins.

An agent exciting secretion of milk.

Of or pertaining to milk; got from milk; as, galactic acid.

An amorphous, gelatinous substance containing nitrogen, found in milk and other animal fluids. It resembles peptone, and is variously regarded as a coagulating or emulsifying agent.

An instrument for ascertaining the quality of milk (i.e., its richness in cream) by determining its specific gravity; a lactometer.

One who eats, or subsists on, milk.

Feeding on milk.

Milk-carrying; lactiferous; -- applied to the ducts of mammary glands.

Increasing the flow of milk; milk-producing. -- n. A galactopoietic substance.

te, crystalline sugar, C6H12O6, isomeric with dextrose, obtained by the decomposition of milk sugar, and also from certain gums. When oxidized it forms mucic acid. Called also lactose (though it is not lactose proper).

The Milky Way; that luminous tract, or belt, which is seen at night stretching across the heavens, and which is composed of innumerable stars, so distant and blended as to be distinguishable only with the telescope. The term has recently been used for remote clusters of stars. Nichol.

The common English milkwort (Polygala vulgaris), so called from blossoming in gang week. Dr. Prior.

A very thin, slight, transparent stuff, generally of silk; also, any fabric resembling silk gauze; as, wire gauze; cotton gauze. Gauze dresser, one employed in stiffening gauze.

to produce; to cause. Whatever generates a quantity of good chyle must likewise generate milk. Arbuthnot.

A narrow ornamental fabric of silk, woolen, or cotton, often with a metallic wire, or sometimes a coarse cord, running through it; -- used as trimming for dresses, furniture, etc. Gimp nail, an upholsterer's small nail.

A kind of pouch formerly worn at the girdle. Ld. Lytton. A gipser all of silk, Hung at his girdle, white as morné milk. Chaucer.

A variety of opal which is usually milk white, bluish white, or sky blue; but in a bright light it reflects a reddish color.