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Suckling; giving suck.

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 salt of lactic acid.

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.

Producing milk or a milklike juice or fluid, as the milkweed. See Latex.

Of or pertaining to milk; procured from sour milk or whey; as, lactic acid; lactic fermentation, etc. Lactic acid (Physiol. Chem.), a sirupy, colorless fluid, soluble in water, with an intensely sour taste and strong acid reaction. There are at least three isomeric modifications all having the formula C3H6O3. Sarcolact…

A white, crystalline substance, obtained from also, by extension, any similar substance.

Bearing or containing milk or a milky fluid; as, the lactiferous vessels, cells, or tissue of various vascular plants.

Producing or yielding milk.

A medicine to check the secretion of milk, or to dispel a supposed accumulation of milk in any part of the body.

One of a series of anhydrides resembling the lactams, but of an imido type; as, isatine is a lactim. Cf. Lactam.

A white, crystalline substance obtained as an anhydride of alanine, and regarded as an imido derivative of lactic acid.

See Lactose.