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Feeding on milk.

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

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

of milk sugar, and also from certain gums. When oxidized it forms mucic acid. Called also lactose (though it is not lactose proper).

A softening of the coats of the stomach; -- usually a post- morten change.

Coated with icing; iced; glazed; -- said of fruits, sweetmeats, cake, etc.

Pertaining to ice or to its action; consisting of ice; frozen; icy; esp., pertaining to glaciers; as, glacial phenomena. Lyell.

One who attributes the phenomena of the drift, in geology, to glaciers.

To produce glacial effects upon, as in the scoring of rocks, transportation of loose material, etc. Glaciated rocks, rocks whose surfaces have been smoothed, furrowed, or striated, by the action of ice.

The process of glaciating, or the state of being glaciated; the production of glacial phenomena.

An immense field or stream of ice, formed in the region of perpetual snow, and moving slowly down a mountain slope or valley, as in the Alps, or over an extended area, as in Greenland.

Pertaining to, consisting of or resembling, ice; icy. Sir T. Browne.

A gentle slope, or a smooth, gently sloping bank; especially (Fort.), that slope of earth which inclines from the covered way toward the exterior ground or country (see Illust. of Ravelin).

The general term for the Hebrew oral or traditional law; one of two branches of exposition in the Midrash. See Midrash.

. A kind of pillow lace, remarkable for the beauty of its figures; -- so called because chiefly made in Honiton, England.

Not lacerable; incapable of being torn or rent. [Obs.]

Incapable of weeping. [Obs.] Bailey.

The quality or state of being implacable.

Not placable; not to be appeased; incapable of being pacified; inexorable; as, an implacable prince. I see thou art implacable. Milton. An object of implacable enmity. Macaulay.

The quality of being implacable; implacability.