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An effervescent liquor like kumiss, made from fermented milk, used as a food and as a medicine in the northern Caucasus. -- Ke*fir"ic (#), a.

A primitive Chinese instrument of the cittern kind, with from five to twenty-five silken strings. Riemann.

India silk brocaded with flowers in silver or gold. -- a.

of kind feeling or disposition beneficence. I do fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way. Shak. Unremembered acts Of kindness and of love. Wordsworth.

Waste silk formed in winding off the threads from a cocoon.

ting fermented or distilled liquor originally made by the Tartars from mare's or camel's milk. It can be obtained from any kind of milk, and is now largely made in Europe. [Written also koumyss, kumiss, kumish, and kumys.] Koumiss has from time immemorial served the Tartar instead of wine or spirits. J. H. Newman.…

or Constantine after his conversion to Christianity. It is described as a pike bearing a silk banner hanging from a crosspiece, and surmounted by a golden crown. It bore a monogram of the first two letters (CHR) of the name of Christ in its Greek form. Later, the name was given to various modifications of this standard…

A slip of silk, paper, parchment, etc., affixed to anything, usually by an inscription, the contents, ownership, destination, etc.; as, the label of a bottle or a package.

A fabric of fine threads of linen, silk, cotton, etc., often ornamented with figures; a delicate tissue of thread, much worn as an ornament of dress. Our English dames are much given to the wearing of costlylaces. Bacon.

The produce of animals yielding milk; milk and that which is made from it.

A preparation of casein from milk, used in printing calico.

Milky; full of white juice like milk. [Obs.] "Lactary or milky plants." Sir T. Browne.

A giving suck; the secretion and yielding of milk by the mammary gland.

Pertaining to, or resembling, milk; milky; as, the lacteal fluid.

Milkily; in the manner of milk.

Milky; consisting of, or resembling, milk. "This lactean whiteness." Moxon.

Milky; resembling milk. "The lacteous circle." Sir T. Browne.

In a lacteous manner; after the manner of milk.

The state or quality of producing milk, or milklike juice; resemblance to milk; a milky color. This lactescence does commonly ensue when . . . fair water is suddenly poured upon the solution. Boyle.

Having a milky look; becoming milky. [Obs.]