Definition of milk

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Milk (n.) A kind of juice or sap, usually white in color, found in certain plants; latex. See Latex..

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Suckle :: Sucking (a.) Drawing milk from the mother or dam; hence, colloquially, young, inexperienced, as, a sucking infant; a sucking calf..
Coagulate :: Coagulate (v. t.) To cause (a liquid) to change into a curdlike or semisolid state, not by evaporation but by some kind of chemical reaction; to curdle; as, rennet coagulates milk; heat coagulates the white of an egg..
Caoutchouc :: Caoutchouc (n.) A tenacious, elastic, gummy substance obtained from the milky sap of several plants of tropical South America (esp. the euphorbiaceous tree Siphonia elastica or Hevea caoutchouc), Asia, and Africa. Being impermeable to liquids and gases, and not readly affected by exposure to air, acids, and alkalies, it is used, especially when vulcanized, for many purposes in the arts and in manufactures. Also called India rubber (because it was first brought from India, and was formerly used c
Dry :: Dry (superl.) Of animals: Not giving milk; as, the cow is dry..
Ingestion :: Ingestion (n.) The act of taking or putting into the stomach; as, the ingestion of milk or other food..
Chyluria :: Chyluria (n.) A morbid condition in which the urine contains chyle or fatty matter, giving it a milky appearance..
Koumiss :: Koumiss (n.) An intoxicating fermented or distilled liquor originally made by the Tartars from mare's or camel's milk. It can be obtained from any kind of milk, and is now largely made in Europe..
Skim :: Skim (v. t.) To clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or lying thereon, by means of a utensil that passes just beneath the surface; as, to skim milk; to skim broth..
Dairy :: Dairy (n.) That department of farming which is concerned in the production of milk, and its conversion into butter and cheese..
Horn :: Horn (n.) An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias)..
Galacta-gogue :: Galacta-gogue (n.) An agent exciting secretion of milk.
Churn :: Churn (v. t.) To stir, beat, or agitate, as milk or cream in a churn, in order to make butter..
Lettuce :: Lettuce (n.) A composite plant of the genus Lactuca (L. sativa), the leaves of which are used as salad. Plants of this genus yield a milky juice, from which lactucarium is obtained. The commonest wild lettuce of the United States is L. Canadensis..
Galactopoietic :: Galactopoietic (a.) Increasing the flow of milk; milk-producing. -- n. A galactopoietic substance.
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..
Creamery :: Creamery (n.) A place where butter and cheese are made, or where milk and cream are put up in cans for market..
Sarcolactic :: Sarcolactic (a.) Relating to muscle and milk; as, sarcolactic acid. See Lactic acid, under Lactic..
Curd :: Curd (n.) The coagulated or thickened part of milk, as distinguished from the whey, or watery part. It is eaten as food, especially when made into cheese..
Nipple :: Nipple (n.) The protuberance through which milk is drawn from the breast or mamma; the mammilla; a teat; a pap.
Lactucone :: Lactucone (n.) A white, crystalline, tasteless substance, found in the milky sap of species of Lactuca, and constituting an essential ingredient of lactucarium..
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