Definition of milk

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Milk (n.) An emulsion made by bruising seeds; as, the milk of almonds, produced by pounding almonds with sugar and water..

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Mamma :: Mamma (n.) A glandular organ for secreting milk, characteristic of all mammals, but usually rudimentary in the male; a mammary gland; a breast; under; bag..
Sweet :: Sweet (superl.) Not changed from a sound or wholesome state. Specifically: (a) Not sour; as, sweet milk or bread. (b) Not state; not putrescent or putrid; not rancid; as, sweet butter; sweet meat or fish..
Lactoscope :: Lactoscope (n.) An instrument for estimating the amount of cream contained in milk by ascertaining its relative opacity.
Lactarene :: Lactarene (n.) A preparation of casein from milk, used in printing calico..
Dover's Powder :: Dover's Powder () A powder of ipecac and opium, compounded, in the United States, with sugar of milk, but in England (as formerly in the United States) with sulphate of potash, and in France (as in Dr. Dover's original prescription) with nitrate and sulphate of potash and licorice. It is an anodyne diaphoretic..
Galactose :: Galactose (n.) A white, crystalline sugar, C6H12O6, isomeric with dextrose, obtained by the decomposition of milk sugar, and also from certain gums. When oxidized it forms mucic acid. Called also lactose (though it is not lactose proper)..
Booly :: Booly (n.) A company of Irish herdsmen, or a single herdsman, wandering from place to place with flocks and herds, and living on their milk, like the Tartars; also, a place in the mountain pastures inclosed for the shelter of cattle or their keepers..
Tyre :: Tyre () Curdled milk.
Milky :: Milky (a.) Like, or somewhat like, milk; whitish and turbid; as, the water is milky. Milky juice..
Brewis :: Brewis (n.) Bread soaked in broth, drippings of roast meat, milk, or water and butter..
Ziega :: Ziega (n.) Curd produced from milk by adding acetic acid, after rennet has ceased to cause coagulation..
Milk Vetch :: Milk vetch () A leguminous herb (Astragalus glycyphyllos) of Europe and Asia, supposed to increase the secretion of milk in goats..
Suck :: Suck (v. i.) To draw milk from the breast or udder; as, a child, or the young of an animal, is first nourished by sucking..
Lacteously :: Lacteously (adv.) In a lacteous manner; after the manner of milk.
Milk-livered :: Milk-livered (a.) White-livered; cowardly; timorous.
Emulsive :: Emulsive (a.) Softening; milklike.
Set :: Set (v. t.) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle; as, to set milk for cheese..
Chyluria :: Chyluria (n.) A morbid condition in which the urine contains chyle or fatty matter, giving it a milky appearance..
Amygdalate :: Amygdalate (n.) An emulsion made of almonds; milk of almonds.
Galactometer :: Galactometer (n.) An instrument for ascertaining the quality of milk (i.e., its richness in cream) by determining its specific gravity; a lactometer..
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