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A caoutchouc like substance obtained from the milky juice of the East Indian Euphorbia Kattimundoo. It is used as a cement.

An effervescent liquor like kumiss, made from fermented milk, used as a food and as a medicine in the northern Caucasus. -- Ke*fir"ic (#), a.

n of kind feeling or disposition beneficence. I do fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way. Shak. Unremembered acts Of kindness and of love. Wordsworth.

ating fermented or distilled liquor originally made by the Tartars from mare's or camel's milk. It can be obtained from any kind of milk, and is now largely made in Europe. [Written also koumyss, kumiss, kumish, and kumys.] Koumiss has from time immemorial served the Tartar instead of wine or spirits. J. H. Newman.…

The produce of animals yielding milk; milk and that which is made from it.

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 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.

Having a milky look; becoming milky. [Obs.]

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…

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.

The albumin present on milk, apparently identical with ordinary serum albumin. It is distinct from the casein of milk.