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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.

s. 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.

A low, fleshy perennial herb (Glaux maritima) found along northern seashores.

That which resembles silk, as the filiform styles of the female flower of maize. Raw silk, silk as it is wound off from the cocoons, and before it is manufactured. -- Silk cotton, a cottony substance enveloping the seeds of the silk-cotton tree. -- Silk-cotton tree (Bot.), a name for several tropical trees of the gen…

Wearing silk stockings (which among men were formerly worn chiefly by the luxurious or aristocratic); hence, elegantly dressed; aristocratic; luxurious; -- chiefly applied to men, often by way of reproach.

Of or pertaining to silk; made of, or resembling, silk; as, silken cloth; a silken veil.

The quality or state of being silky or silken; softness and smoothness.

A dealer in silks; a silk mercer. Shak.

Silkiness. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Any plant of the genera Asclepias and Acerates whose seed vessels contain a long, silky down; milkweed.

a of any one of numerous species of bombycid moths, which spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon before changing to a pupa.

Of or pertaining to silk; made of, or resembling, silk; silken; silklike; as, a silky luster.

That same; this; that. [Obs.] "I love thilk lass." Spenser. Thou spake right now of thilke traitor death. Chaucer.

A silk cloth made from the cocoons of a caterpillar other than the common silkworm, much used in Bengal and China.

A kind of mollusk, a whelk. [Prov. Eng.]

See Whelk. [Obs.]

Any kind of spurge (Euphorbia); -- so called from its acrid milky juice.