Definition of milk

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Milk (n.) 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..

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Lacteally :: Lacteally (adv.) Milkily; in the manner of milk.
Emulsin :: Emulsin (n.) The white milky pulp or extract of bitter almonds.
Lactifical :: Lactifical (a.) Producing or yielding milk.
Horn :: Horn (n.) An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias)..
Whey :: Whey (n.) The serum, or watery part, of milk, separated from the more thick or coagulable part, esp. in the process of making cheese..
Latex :: Latex (n.) A milky or colored juice in certain plants in cavities (called latex cells or latex tubes). It contains the peculiar principles of the plants, whether aromatic, bitter, or acid, and in many instances yields caoutchouc upon coagulation..
Milk :: Milk (n.) A kind of juice or sap, usually white in color, found in certain plants; latex. See Latex..
Pudding :: Pudding (n.) A species of food of a soft or moderately hard consistence, variously made, but often a compound of flour or meal, with milk and eggs, etc..
Dogbane :: Dogbane (n.) A small genus of perennial herbaceous plants, with poisonous milky juice, bearing slender pods pods in pairs..
Lactifuge :: Lactifuge (n.) A medicine to check the secretion of milk, or to dispel a supposed accumulation of milk in any part of the body..
Chyle :: Chyle (n.) A milky fluid containing the fatty matter of the food in a state of emulsion, or fine mechanical division; formed from chyme by the action of the intestinal juices. It is absorbed by the lacteals, and conveyed into the blood by the thoracic duct..
Proteid :: Proteid (n.) One of a class of amorphous nitrogenous principles, containing, as a rule, a small amount of sulphur; an albuminoid, as blood fibrin, casein of milk, etc. Proteids are present in nearly all animal fluids and make up the greater part of animal tissues and organs. They are also important constituents of vegetable tissues. See 2d Note under Food..
Buttery :: Buttery (n.) An apartment in a house where butter, milk and other provisions are kept..
Milken :: Milken (a.) Consisting of milk.
Brewis :: Brewis (n.) Bread soaked in broth, drippings of roast meat, milk, or water and butter..
Sarcolactic :: Sarcolactic (a.) Relating to muscle and milk; as, sarcolactic acid. See Lactic acid, under Lactic..
Stock :: Stock (v. t.) To suffer to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more previous to sale, as cows..
Yakamilk :: Yakamilk (n.) See Trumpeter, 3 (a)..
Weldon''s Process :: Weldon's process () A process for the recovery or regeneration of manganese dioxide in the manufacture of chlorine, by means of milk of lime and the oxygen of the air; -- so called after the inventor..
Slows :: Slows (n.) Milk sickness.
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