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milch

mɪlʧ
WordNet
  1. (adj) milch
    giving milk; bred or suitable primarily for milk production "milch goats, milch camels"
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Milch
    Giving milk; -- now applied only to beasts. "Milch camels.", "Milch kine."
  2. Milch
    Tender; pitiful; weeping.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. milch
    Giving milk; furnishing milk: as, a milch cow: now applied only to domestic animals, and chiefly to cows.
  2. milch
    Milky: said of plants.
  3. milch
    Yielding liquid; distilling drops (namely, tears).
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (adj) Milch
    milch giving milk: yielding liquid, tender.
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary OE. milche,; akin to G. melk, Icel. milkr, mjōlkr, and to E. milk,. See Milk

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Milk.

Usage in the news

David Milch Does Not Believe in Genres. esquire.com

HBO Pacts With 'Luck's' David Milch for William Faulkner Adaptations. hollywoodreporter.com

Ahead of its Dec 11 sneak preview, HBO has doubled down on Luck 's David Milch . hollywoodreporter.com

Michael Mann, David Milch Split Duties to Settle Power Struggle on HBO's 'Luck'. hollywoodreporter.com

For writer-producer David Milch , the HBO gambling drama Luck is personal. hollywoodreporter.com

Project being developed through Unique's deal with Warner Bros. David Milch adapting 'Heavy Rain' game. variety.com

David Milch is heading into "Heavy Rain," signing to adapt the noir-style videogame with Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne producing through their Unique Features banner. variety.com

David Milch adapting 'Heavy Rain' game. variety.com

Mann, Milch in 'Luck' with HBO. variety.com

Michael Mann is in talks to direct "Luck," an hourlong HBO series pilot about horse racing culture created by David Milch . variety.com

Milch , who wrote the series pilot, last brought "John From Cincinnati" and "Deadwood" to HBO. variety.com

Bernard Milch , founder and CEO of Wascomat, has announced his retirement and resignation as company CEO. americancoinop.com

Neal Milch has been appointed CEO effective immediately. americancoinop.com

An Evening with David Milch , Live Talks Los Angeles. kcet.org

Live Talks Los Angeles, with co-presenting media sponsors KCET & KPCC, presents An Evening with David Milch . kcet.org

Usage in scientific papers

We will next present a short proof of Schl ömilch’s result to highlight its structural similarity to our new test given in Section 3.
A Dilution Test for the Convergence of Subseries of a Monotone Series

Cauchy’s and Schl ömilch’s condensation tests are designed for determining the convergence of a monotone series by looking at a weighted subseries of the original series.
A Dilution Test for the Convergence of Subseries of a Monotone Series

Usage in literature

He saw that the latter was driving two cows before him, whose distended udders proved them to be milch cattle. "The Tiger Hunter" by Mayne Reid

The Kerrys are good milch cows. "The Stock-Feeder's Manual" by Charles Alexander Cameron

The same quantity of food when fed to milch cows produced 74 pounds of milk, plus one pound of increase in live weight. "The Young Farmer: Some Things He Should Know" by Thomas Forsyth Hunt

He would have run from a milch-cow. "The Pools of Silence" by H. de Vere Stacpoole

Appel, Milch Zeit., No. "Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition" by H. L. Russell

It appears that there are milch-cows and beef-cows. "Child and Country" by Will Levington Comfort

Their hogs, their sheep, and the few milch cows they possessed, had been taken away from them. "A Captain in the Ranks" by George Cary Eggleston

Young milch cows are most susceptible to an attack, but older cows, bulls, or young cattle are by no means immune. "Special Report on Diseases of Cattle" by U.S. Department of Agriculture

Horses, sheep and milch cows increased rapidly. "History of Farming in Ontario" by C. C. James

Corn-fodder, well cured, is better for milch-cows than the best of hay. "Soil Culture" by J. H. Walden

Usage in poetry
And so, nor mare nor brown milch-cow,
Nor lambs can joy impart,
For the blind old man and th' mill and mine
Are all upon my heart.
Wo hast du den Verstand gelassen?
Du hast gewiss noch keinen Rausch?
Den Wein, den Wein fuer Milch zu hassen?
Den Wein fuer Milch? Das waer ein Tausch.