Milk

Milk - Other Definitions

• (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.
  
  
• (n.) A kind of juice or sap, usually white in color, found in certain plants; latex. See Latex.
  
  
• (n.) An emulsion made by bruising seeds; as, the milk of almonds, produced by pounding almonds with sugar and water.
  
  
• (n.) The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster.
  
  
• (v. t.) To draw or press milk from the breasts or udder of, by the hand or mouth; to withdraw the milk of.
  
  
• (v. t.) To draw from the breasts or udder; to extract, as milk; as, to milk wholesome milk from healthy cows.
  
  
• (v. t.) To draw anything from, as if by milking; to compel to yield profit or advantage; to plunder.
  
  
• (v. i.) To draw or to yield milk.
  
  
• vetch () A leguminous herb (Astragalus glycyphyllos) of Europe and Asia, supposed to increase the secretion of milk in goats.