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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Hold :: Hold (v. t.) To receive and retain; to contain as a vessel; as, this pail holds milk; hence, to be able to receive and retain; to have capacity or containing power for..
Milkmaid :: Milkmaid (n.) A woman who milks cows or is employed in the dairy.
Opalescence :: Opalescence (n.) A reflection of a milky or pearly light from the interior of a mineral, as in the moonstone; the state or quality of being opalescent..
Colostrum :: Colostrum (n.) The first milk secreted after delivery; biestings.
Charlotte :: Charlotte (n.) A kind of pie or pudding made by lining a dish with slices of bread, and filling it with bread soaked in milk, and baked..
Yakamilk :: Yakamilk (n.) See Trumpeter, 3 (a)..
Milksop :: Milksop (n.) A piece of bread sopped in milk; figuratively, an effeminate or weak-minded person..
Sap :: Sap (n.) A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop.
Lactean :: Lactean (a.) Milky; consisting of, or resembling, milk..
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..
Samp :: Samp (n.) An article of food consisting of maize broken or bruised, which is cooked by boiling, and usually eaten with milk; coarse hominy..
Milk :: Milk (v. t.) To draw anything from, as if by milking; to compel to yield profit or advantage; to plunder..
Lactoprotein :: Lactoprotein (n.) A peculiar albuminous body considered a normal constituent of milk.
Cocoanut :: Cocoanut (n.) The large, hard-shelled nut of the cocoa palm. It yields an agreeable milky liquid and a white meat or albumen much used as food and in making oil..
Saphead :: Saphead (n.) A weak-minded, stupid fellow; a milksop..
Umbel :: Umbel (n.) A kind of flower cluster in which the flower stalks radiate from a common point, as in the carrot and milkweed. It is simple or compound; in the latter case, each peduncle bears another little umbel, called umbellet, or umbellule..
Wolf''s-milk :: Wolf's-milk (n.) Any kind of spurge (Euphorbia); -- so called from its acrid milky juice.
Galaxy :: Galaxy (n.) The Milky Way; that luminous tract, or belt, which is seen at night stretching across the heavens, and which is composed of innumerable stars, so distant and blended as to be distinguishable only with the telescope. The term has recently been used for remote clusters of stars..
Galactopoietic :: Galactopoietic (a.) Increasing the flow of milk; milk-producing. -- n. A galactopoietic substance.
Warm :: Warm (superl.) Having heat in a moderate degree; not cold as, warm milk..
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