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r young, consisting of minute globules of fat suspended in a solution of casein, albumin, milk sugar, and inorganic salts. "White as morne milk." Chaucer.

A peculiar malignant disease, occurring in parts of the western United States, and affecting certain kinds of farm stock (esp. cows), and persons using the meat or dairy products of infected cattle. Its chief symptoms in man are uncontrollable vomiting, obstinate constipation, pain, and muscular tremors. Its origin in…

herb (Astragalus glycyphyllos) of Europe and Asia, supposed to increase the secretion of milk in goats.

White-livered; cowardly; timorous.

Consisting of milk. [Obs.]

One who milks; also, a mechanical apparatus for milking cows.

Full of milk; abounding with food. [R.] "Milkful vales." Sylvester.

In a milky manner.

State or quality of being milky.

A woman who milks cows or is employed in the dairy.

A man who sells milk or delivers is to customers.

A piece of bread sopped in milk; figuratively, an effeminate or weak-minded person. Shak. To wed a milksop or a coward ape. Chaucer.

Any plant of the genera Asclepias and Acerates, abounding in a milky juice, and having its seed attached to a long silky down; silkweed. The name is also applied to several other plants with a milky juice, as to several kinds of spurge.

es. The common European P. vulgaris was supposed to have the power of producing a flow of milk in nurses.

Consisting of, or containing, milk. Pails high foaming with a milky flood. Pope.

The milk that remains after the butter is separated from the cream.

The milk secreted just before, or directly after, the birth of a child or of the young of an animal; colostrum.

A low, fleshy perennial herb (Glaux maritima) found along northern seashores.

Any kind of spurge (Euphorbia); -- so called from its acrid milky juice.

See Trumpeter, 3 (a).