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.), a peculiar malignant disease, occurring in some parts of the
Western United States, and affecting certain kinds of farm stock and persons who make use of 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 cattle has been variously ascribed to the presence
of certain plants in their food, and to polluted drinking water. — Milk snake (Zoöl.), a harmless American
snake 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 — 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 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.
Milk
(Milk) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Milked (milkt); p. pr. & vb. n. Milking.]
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.
I have given suck, and know
How tender 't is to love the babe that milks me.
Shak. 2. To draw from the breasts or udder; to extract, as milk; as, to milk wholesome milk from healthy cows.
3. To draw anything from, as if by milking; to compel to yield profit or advantage; to plunder. Tyndale.
They [the lawyers] milk an unfortunate estate as regularly as a dairyman does his stock.
London Spectator. 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]
Milk
(Milk), v. i. To draw or to yield milk.
Milken
(Milk"en) a. Consisting of milk. [Obs.]
Milker
(Milk"er) n.
1. One who milks; also, a mechanical apparatus for milking cows.
2. A cow or other animal that gives milk.
Milkful
(Milk"ful) a. Full of milk; abounding with food. [R.] "Milkful vales." Sylvester.
Milkily
(Milk"i*ly) adv. In a milky manner.
Milkiness
(Milk"i*ness), n. State or quality of being milky.
Milk-livered
(Milk"-liv`ered) a. White- livered; cowardly; timorous.
