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Milk \Milk\ (m[i^]lk), n. [AS. meoluc, meoloc, meolc, milc; akin
to OFries. meloc, D. melk, G. milch, OHG. miluh, Icel.
mj[=o]lk, Sw. mj["o]lk, Dan. melk, Goth. miluks, G. melken to
milk, OHG. melchan, Lith. milszti, L. mulgere, Gr.
'ame`lgein. [root]107. Cf. {Milch}, {Emulsion}, {Milt} soft
roe of fishes.]
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1. (Physiol.) A white fluid secreted by the mammary glands of
female mammals for the nourishment of their young,
consisting of minute globules of fat suspended in a
solution of casein, albumin, milk sugar, and inorganic
salts. "White as morne milk." --Chaucer.
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2. (Bot.) A kind of juice or sap, usually white in color,
found in certain plants; latex. See {Latex}.
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3. An emulsion made by bruising seeds; as, the milk of
almonds, produced by pounding almonds with sugar and
water.
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4. (Zool.) The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster.
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{Condensed milk}. See under {Condense}, v. t.

{Milk crust} (Med.), vesicular eczema occurring on the face
and scalp of nursing infants. See {Eczema}.

{Milk fever}.
(a) (Med.) A fever which accompanies or precedes the first
lactation. It is usually transitory.
(b) (Vet. Surg.) A form puerperal peritonitis in cattle;
also, a variety of meningitis occurring in cows after
calving.

{Milk glass}, glass having a milky appearance.

{Milk knot} (Med.), a hard lump forming in the breast of a
nursing woman, due to obstruction to the flow of milk and
congestion of the mammary glands.

{Milk leg} (Med.), a swollen condition of the leg, usually in
puerperal women, caused by an inflammation of veins, and
characterized by a white appearance occasioned by an
accumulation of serum and sometimes of pus in the cellular
tissue.

{Milk meats}, food made from milk, as butter and cheese.
[Obs.] --Bailey.

{Milk mirror}. Same as {Escutcheon}, 2.

{Milk molar} (Anat.), one of the deciduous molar teeth which
are shed and replaced by the premolars.

{Milk of lime} (Chem.), a watery emulsion of calcium hydrate,
produced by macerating quicklime in water.

{Milk parsley} (Bot.), an umbelliferous plant ({Peucedanum
palustre}) of Europe and Asia, having a milky juice.

{Milk pea} (Bot.), a genus ({Galactia}) of leguminous and,
usually, twining plants.

{Milk sickness} (Med.), See {milk sickness} in the
vocabulary.

{Milk snake} (Zool.), a harmless American snake ({Ophibolus
triangulus}, or {Ophibolus eximius}). It is variously
marked with white, gray, and red. Called also {milk
adder}, {chicken snake}, {house snake}, etc.

{Milk sugar}. (Physiol. Chem.) See {Lactose}, and {Sugar of
milk} (below).

{Milk thistle} (Bot.), an esculent European thistle ({Silybum
marianum}), having the veins of its leaves of a milky
whiteness.

{Milk thrush}. (Med.) See {Thrush}.

{Milk tooth} (Anat.), one of the temporary first set of teeth
in young mammals; in man there are twenty.

{Milk tree} (Bot.), a tree yielding a milky juice, as the cow
tree of South America ({Brosimum Galactodendron}), and the
{Euphorbia balsamifera} of the Canaries, the milk of both
of which is wholesome food.

{Milk vessel} (Bot.), a special cell in the inner bark of a
plant, or a series of cells, in which the milky juice is
contained. See {Latex}.

{Rock milk}. See {Agaric mineral}, under {Agaric}.

{Sugar of milk}. The sugar characteristic of milk; a hard
white crystalline slightly sweet substance obtained by
evaporation of the whey of milk. It is used in pellets and
powder as a vehicle for homeopathic medicines, and as an
article of diet. See {Lactose}.
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Milk \Milk\, v. i.
1. To draw or to yield milk.
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2. (Elec.) To give off small gas bubbles during the final
part of the charging operation; -- said of a storage
battery.
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Milk \Milk\ (m[i^]lk), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Milked} (m[i^]lkt);
p. pr. & vb. n. {Milking}.]
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1. To draw or press milk from the breasts or udder of, by the
hand or mouth; to withdraw the milk of. "Milking the
kine." --Gay.
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I have given suck, and know
How tender 't is to love the babe that milks me.
--Shak.
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2. To draw from the breasts or udder; to extract, as milk;
as, to milk wholesome milk from healthy cows.
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3. To draw anything from, as if by milking; to compel to
yield profit or advantage; to plunder. --Tyndale.
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They [the lawyers] milk an unfortunate estate as
regularly as a dairyman does his stock. --London
Spectator.
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{To milk the street}, to squeeze the smaller operators in
stocks and extract a profit from them, by alternately
raising and depressing prices within a short range; --
said of the large dealers. [Cant]

{To milk a telegram}, to use for one's own advantage the
contents of a telegram belonging to another person. [Cant]
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