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See Trumpeter, 3 (a).

A powdered solid extract of a vegetable substance mixed with sugar of milk in such proportion that one part of the abstract represents two parts of the original substance. Abstract of title (Law), an epitome of the evidences of ownership.

[the moon] is fully accomplished for all those ends to which Providence did appoint it. Wilkins. These qualities . . . go to accomplish a perfect woman. Cowden Clarke.

In America, the term is commonly applied to several harmless snakes, as the milk adder, puffing adder, etc.

The last milk drawn in milking; strokings. [Obs.] Grose.

Failure of the due secretion of milk after childbirth.

Lacking milk to suckle with.

A thin, black silk for hoods, scarfs, etc.; -- often called simply mode. Buchanan.

to the skin, hair, and eyes is deficient or in a morbid state. An albino has a skin of a milky hue, with hair of the same color, and eyes with deep red pupil and pink or blue iris. The term is also used of the lower animals, as white mice, elephants, etc.; and of plants in a whitish condition from the absence of chloro…

The imaginary milk-white animal on which Mohammed was said to have been carried up to heaven; a white mule.

A thin kind of cloth made of the wooly hair of the alpaca, often mixed with silk or with cotton.

Earth flax, or mountain flax; a soft silky variety of asbestus.

An emulsion made of almonds; milk of almonds. Bailey. Coxe.

a goat, a cat, etc. Angora cat (Zoöl.), a variety of the domestic cat with very long and silky hair, generally of the brownish white color. Called also Angola cat. See Cat. -- Angora goat (Zoöl.), a variety of the domestic goat, reared for its long silky hair, which is highly prized for manufacture.…

urther annoyance and terror of any besieged place, they would throw into it dead bodies. Wilkins.

Causing a diminution or a suppression of the secretion of milk.

A very fine sort of Persian silk.

A thick plain silk, generally black, and used for clerical. Simmonds.

A material of wool or silk used for working the figures in embroidery.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, plants of the Milkweed family.