Word Meanings - AFTERINGS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The last milk drawn in milking; strokings. Grose.

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• MILK VETCH
  A leguminous herb of Europe and Asia, supposed to increase the secretion of milk in goats. Note: The name is sometimes taken for the whole genus Astragalus, of which there are about two hundred species in North America, and even more elsewhere.
• MILKWORT
  A genus of plants of many species. The common European P. vulgaris was supposed to have the power of producing a flow of milk in nurses. Note: The species of Campanula, or bellflower, are sometimes called milkwort, from their juice.
• DRAWN
  See PATTERN
• MILKWEED
  Any plant of the genera Asclepias and Acerates, abounding in a milky juice, and having its seed attached to a long silky down; silkweed. The name is also applied to several other plants with a milky juice, as to several kinds of spurge.
• MILKER
  1. One who milks; also, a mechanical apparatus for milking cows. 2. A cow or other animal that gives milk.
• MILK
  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. "White as morne milk." Chaucer.
• MILK-LIVERED
  White-livered; cowardly; timorous.
• MILKILY
  In a milky manner.
• MILKSOP
  A piece of bread sopped in milk; figuratively, an effeminate or weak-minded person. Shak. To wed a milksop or a coward ape. Chaucer.
• MILKEN
  Consisting of milk.
• MILKMAID
  A woman who milks cows or is employed in the dairy.
• MILK SICKNESS
  A peculiar malignant disease, occurring in parts of the western United States, and affecting certain kinds of farm stock , and persons using the meat or dairy products of infected cattle. Its chief symptoms in man are uncontrollable vomiting,
• MILKINESS
  State or quality of being milky.
• DRAWNET
  A net for catching the larger sorts of birds; also, a dragnet. Crabb.
• MILKMAN
  A man who sells milk or delivers is to customers.
• MILKFUL
  Full of milk; abounding with food. "Milkful vales." Sylvester.
• MILKY
  1. Consisting of, or containing, milk. Pails high foaming with a milky flood. Pope. 2. Like, or somewhat like, milk; whitish and turbid; as, the water is milky. "Milky juice." Arbuthnot. 3. Yielding milk. "Milky mothers." Roscommon. 4. Mild; tame;
• WOLF'S-MILK
  Any kind of spurge ; -- so called from its acrid milky juice.
• INDRAWN
  Drawn in.
• FOREMILK
  The milk secreted just before, or directly after, the birth of a child or of the young of an animal; colostrum.
• BUTTERMILK
  The milk that remains after the butter is separated from the cream.
• YAKAMILK
  See
• CUBDRAWN
  Sucked by cubs. This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch. Shak.
• LONG-DRAWN
  Extended to a great length. The cicadæ hushed their long-drawn, ear-splitting strains. G. W. Cable.
• SOLID-DRAWN
  Drawn out from a heated solid bar, as by a process of spiral rolling which first hollows the bar and then expands the cavity by forcing the bar over a pointed mandrel fixed in front of the rolls; - - said of a weldless tube.
• SEA MILKWORT
  A low, fleshy perennial herb found along northern seashores.