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worn at the girdle. Ld. Lytton. A gipser all of silk, Hung at his girdle, white as morné milk. Chaucer.

A variety of opal which is usually milk white, bluish white, or sky blue; but in a bright light it reflects a reddish color.

everal species and varieties, esp. the domestic goat (C. hircus), which is raised for its milk, flesh, and skin.

so called from the mistaken notion that it sucks goats. The European species is also goat-milker, goat owl, goat chaffer, fern owl, night hawk, nightjar, night churr, churr-owl, gnat hawk, and dorhawk .

A kind of Italian pressed milk cheese; -- so called from a village near Milan.

de, To see her granges and her bernes wide. Chaucer. Nor burnt the grange, nor bussed the milking maid. Tennyson.

A light, liquid food, made by boiling meal of maize, oatmeal, or fiour in water or milk; thin porridge.

varnish maker's utensil for melting gum and mixing other ingredients. -- Gum resin, the milky juice of a plant solidified by exposure to air; one of certain inspissated saps, mixtures of, or having properties of, gum and resin; a resin containing more or less mucilaginous and gummy matter. -- Gum sandarac. See Sanda…

A batter or pudding made of flour or oatmeal, stirred into boiling water or milk. [Eng.]

To receive and retain; to contain as a vessel; as, this pail holds milk; hence, to be able to receive and retain; to have capacity or containing power for. Broken cisterns that can hold no water. Jer. ii. 13. One sees more devils than vast hell can hold. Shak.

of a breed of cattle, originally from Schleswig-Holstein, valued for the large amount of milk produced by the cows. The color is usually black and white in irregular patches.

An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).

ook or stream as cold as ice. [Poetic] Shak. -- Ice cream Etym: [for iced cream], cream, milk, or custard, sweetened, flavored, and frozen. -- Ice field, an extensive sheet of ice. -- Ice float, Ice floe, a sheet of floating ice similar to an ice field, but smaller. -- Ice foot, shore ice in Arctic regions; an ice…

A coating or covering resembling ice, as of sugar and milk or white of egg; frosting.

Gray. -- Indian hemp. (Bot.) (a) A plant of the genus Apocynum (A. cannabinum), having a milky juice, and a tough, fibrous bark, whence the name. The root it used in medicine and is both emetic and cathartic in properties. (b) The variety of common hemp (Cannabis Indica), from which hasheesh is obtained. -- Indian ma…

The act of taking or putting into the stomach; as, the ingestion of milk or other food.

By extension, any enzyme which splits cane sugar, milk sugar, lactose, etc., into monosaccharides.

ing ink, of a deep, glossy black when dry. -- Japan varnish, a varnish prepared from the milky juice of the Rhus vernix, a small Japanese tree related to the poison sumac.

of a breed of cattle in the Island of Jersey. Jerseys are noted for the richness of their milk.

A kind of bread made of the meal of maize (Indian corn), mixed with water or milk, etc., and baked. [U.S.] J. Barlow.