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The place, room, or house where milk is kept, and converted into butter or cheese. What stores my dairies and my folds contain. Dryden.

A small genus of perennial herbaceous plants, with poisonous milky juice, bearing slender pods pods in pairs.

A powder of ipecac and opium, compounded, in the United States, with sugar of milk, but in England (as formerly in the United States) with sulphate of potash, and in France (as in Dr. Dover's original prescription) with nitrate and sulphate of potash and licorice. It is an anodyne diaphoretic.

To drain by emptying; to suck dry. Sucking and drawing the breast dischargeth the milk as fast as it can generated. Wiseman.

To swallow (a liquid); to receive, as a fluid, into the stomach; to imbibe; as, to drink milk or water. There lies she with the blessed gods in bliss, There drinks the nectar with ambrosia mixed. Spenser. The bowl of punch which was brewed and drunk in Mrs. Betty's room. Thackeray.

Of animals: Not giving milk; as, the cow is dry.

in certain plants, and produced artificially by the reduction of galactose and lactose or milk sugar.

auction. See under Auction. -- Dutch cheese, a small, pound, hard cheese, made from skim milk. -- Dutch clinker, a kind of brick made in Holland. It is yellowish, very hard, and long and narrow in shape. -- Dutch clover (Bot.), common white clover (Trifolium repens), the seed of which was largely imported into Engla…

Sharp; sour; acid. [Obs.] "Like eager droppings into milk." Shak.

To curdle, as milk. [Prov. Eng.]

ation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.

A drink consisting of eggs beaten up with sugar, milk, and (usually) wine or spirits.

To milk out; to drain. [Obs.] Bailey.

To convert into an emulsion; to form an emulsion; to reduce from an oily substance to a milky fluid in which the fat globules are in a very finely divided state, giving it the semblance of solution; as, the pancreatic juice emulsifies the oily part of food.

The white milky pulp or extract of bitter almonds. [R.]

Any liquid preparation of a color and consistency resembling milk; as: (a) In pharmacy, an extract of seeds, or a mixture of oil and water united by a mucilaginous substance. (b) In photography, a liquid preparation of collodion holding salt of silver, used in the photographic process.

Softening; milklike.

med by the hair growing upward or outward instead of downward. It is esteemed an index of milking qualities. C. L. Flint.

nus of plants of many species, mostly shrubby, herbaceous succulents, affording an acrid, milky juice. Some of them are armed with thorns. Most of them yield powerful emetic and cathartic products.

An inferior kind of cheese made from skim milk with a fatty "filling," such as oleomargarine or lard, to replace the fat removed in the cream.